Awareness of Secondary School Teachers towards Blended Teaching-Learning

Abstract

This study was undertaken to study the Blended Teaching-Learning awareness among the secondary school teachers, and to compare the awareness among female and male teachers, rural and urban teachers, <10 years and ≥10 years teaching experienced teachers, as well as arts and science teachers. This study was followed descriptive survey research method. All the secondary school (under WBBSE) teachers of Howrah District, West Bengal was included as population of the study. The data was collected by self-made awareness scale form Stratified Randomly selected 242 Sample (14 secondary schools from rural area and 9 secondary schools from urban). Findings of the study were that: secondary school male teachers have significantly greater awareness towards blended teaching-learning than female teachers; urban teachers have significantly better awareness than rural teachers; secondary school teachers with lesser teaching experience has better awareness than the teachers with greater teaching experience; and science teachers has better awareness than arts teachers. In summary, blended teaching-learning transforms the teachers’ role from knowledge provider to coach, guide and mentor. So, it is primarily needed to make all the teachers as highly aware in blended teaching-learning irrespective of their gender, locality, teaching experience, and educational stream differences. Keywords: Blended Teaching-Learning, Teachers’ Awareness, Secondary School Education.