What are the effects on class management?
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7.3 What are the effects on class management?
This section describes how the use of computes in teaching and learning can help teachers to manage their classes. One of the key factors that determines
the effectives teaching and learning process is the management of the classroom during the teaching and learning process. In this case it is very
important for a teacher to state in the lesson plan, about how heshe will manage the class during hisher lesson.
From the lesson plan it was stated that students will be arranged in groups depending on the number of students in a class as well as the number of
computers available in the computer laboratory. After introductory part of the lesson all students were supposed to arrange themselves in groups as
stated above. Since all students were taught before how to start the computer and open the spreadsheet program, enter data and then find results in the
columns formatted with formula. Students in all groups were given the data o be entered in the spreadsheet and then find their own solutions. This
helped teachers to manage their classes easily by visiting one group by another asking and answering some question as well as assisting them
whenever there is a problem. The students in each group were very busy to enter data. Finding the results , thinking and discussing so as to make
decisions and relationships.
- The content covered in this study was appropriate to students as well as teachers enjoyed and learned a lot from it. The content involved
creating a spreadsheet workbook inserting formula in some fields columns entering data and finding the values in the formatted fields.
This enabled students to make relationship, which helped them to make decision and then solving problems related to real world.
- Teachers’ classroom practices were adequate and the teacher’s task was only to guide the student- centered and activity-based learning
process Tillya 2002. From the classroom observations it is clear that the teachers role has to change form being source of all learning
material to facilitators of the learning process. This implies that, the teaching approach has changed from teacher-centered lecture method
to the students-centered active-based learning.
On the other side students are supposed take a greater responsibility for their own learning and have the opportunity of displaying the
independence in the learning process. Teachers have to personally master the ICT- tool and their responsibilities concurrently with the fact
that computer is used as a integral part of the individual education and
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subjects. Therefore there is a need of implementing teacher’s in- service training focusing on the pedagogical possibilities which lies in the use of
ICT including the importance of computer to the content didactic and pedagogical principles of the subjects.
The observation from the resultsI. e and of lesson assignments and of chapter test suggests that, there is a need of integrating ICT in the
education system of Tanzania because students in classes where ICT was used performed better compared to students in classes where ICT was
not used. This charge requires much effort form stakeholders and financial support form local from international agencies to establish
teacher’s in-service – training procurement of ICT equipment and preparation of ICT infrastructures. because the observation shows that
only few public secondary schools have computer laboratories and other ICT facilities, also there is no enough ICT professional in Tanzania
which means all teacher need to be trained. - The process integrating ICT in education expensive. This process
needs a lot of money to purchase the computer software and hardware to establish Internet service in schools train teacher and technician e t
c. Therefore education is not cheap but expensive in the environment where technology must be used in the education system.
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