Implementing ICT Techniques in Teaching for the Effective Implementation of the New Nine Years UBE Curriculum in Anambra State

Abstract

Implementing ICT Techniques in Teaching for effective implementation of the new nine years UBE curriculum is the objective of this research study. The study investigated the effective implementation of ICT in the new nine years UBE curriculum. The survey was based on four research questions. A sample total of 3048 science and non-science teachers consisting of 551 science teachers from private primary and 823 science teachers from public junior secondary schools, and 731 non-science teachers from from private primary and 943 non-science teachers from government owned junior secondary school from the six different educational zones in Anambra State. A questionnaire titled “implementing ICT Techniques in Teaching for Effective Implementation of the New UBE Curriculum” (IICTEINUBEC) was used for data collection. Data was analyzed using mean ratings. The Findings include that the schools did not have ICT course outlines specifying the progressive topics to be learnt by primary and Secondary school students, science based subjects which require the use of ICT for its effective teaching / learning are not being used. It was recommended that teachers should not teach the use of ICT in education independently but portraying its scientific nature correlating it with other conventional science subjects taught in schools and that ICT based education courses should be structured into the school
curriculum so that it can be taught at different levels in logical and
procedural sequence.