EXPLORING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHERS TRAINING ABOUT USE OF ICT FOR ENHANCING DISASTERS AWARENESS AND PREPAREDNESS

Abstract

ICT play important role in teaching and learning to understand difficult concept like awareness and preparedness about natural disaster. This study investigated the effectiveness of teacher training workshop about use of ICT for enhancing disaster awareness and preparedness. During the study, prepared a module for training in-service primary school teachers for disaster awareness and  preparedness with the use of ICT, provide training to in-service primary school teachers for disaster awareness and preparedness with the use of ICT and assess the effectiveness of training workshop, Qualitative method was utilized. A focus group discussion guide use to collect data. The sample of the study was selected through purposive. Data was analyzed thematically. The finding of this study showed that training workshop was effective for primary school teachers. So, there are need to conduct face to face training programs for in-service teacher on different domain of teaching.