EXPLORING TEACHERS’ MOTIVATION AND AWARENESS TOWARDS THE USE OF ICTs AT SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL

Abstract

The study was aimed to investigate teachers’ motivationand awareness about the usage of
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) at secondary school level. The study was
qualitative in nature;six public sector secondary schools (three male and three female) of district
Gujranwala were selectedconvenientlyas a sample of the study. From each sampled school, two
teachers were chosen for interview. Data were collected through semi-structured interview guide
from 12 teachers (6 male and 6 female) of secondary school. Collected data were categorized
into different themes. After the collection of data, thematic analysis was done; further, themes
were generated from the analyzed data. The results revealed that all of the respondents were
motivated towards ICTs and hadawareness about ICTs technologies like computer, multimedia,
internet, audio-videos, and multimedia projectors, butowing tonon-availability and lack of
proficiency, they were unable to use them properly.Therefore, the study recommends for needbased
in-service training programmes for teachers forincorporation of ICTs in their classroom
teaching and learning.