TEACHERS FROM PRIMARY EDUCATION ABOUT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ICT IN THE TEACHING PROCESS

Abstract

Since the beginning of the XXI century our country, as one of the countries in transition, has been facing many requirements for whose realization restructuring of some segments of the society is necessary. One of these segments is education. That’s why many project activities have been realized in this period, in the function of the strategically defined reform interventions in the sphere of education. In general, their goal has been modernization of the education through fitting-out the schools with modern teaching tools and training the teachers so that to be capable of implementing modern teaching technologies. Within this framework, various trainings for the teachers have been conducted, for the purpose of providing a more quality teaching process with the implementation of information-communication technologies (ICT).
Taking into account the many activities realized so far in the function of implementing ICT in the teaching, we considered important to get empiric findings regarding the relevant issues which, directly or indirectly, elucidate different aspects of ICT’s implementation in the process of education.
Therefore, the object of this research is the implementation of ICT in the teaching process of primary education. The research objective is getting insights about and showing the current state of ICT’s implementation in the teaching, based on the attitudes and opinions of the teachers directly involved in the educational process. For collecting the empiric data needed, we used the technical of questionnaires. The research covered 160 teachers from a several primary schools in R. Macedonia.
The results obtained give certain answers regarding some aspects of ICT’s implementation in the teaching process and the problems the teachers face in the process.