THE STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF COMPUTER SCIENCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOL

THE STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF COMPUTER SCIENCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOL (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

The present study is undertaken to determine the various strategies to enhance teaching and learning of computer science in secondary schools.

The major findings were that employing qualified and professional teachers and the creation of a conducive academic environment and PTA body could enhance the teaching and learning of computer science. The need for the provision of financial support by some philanthropists and communities will also enhance the teaching and learning of computer science in secondary schools.

Computer science, is science subjects who are concerned with gaining knowledge about man’s contained search for a toll that will enable him meet his computation and data processing requirement with a minimal, manual and mental effort.

Consequently, the educational implication of this finding has a for reaching effect on both the society and the general economy. Thus, a society without a computer literate workforce will definitely lack behind in an age that is variously regarded as a digital age information age and millennium era and computer age.

1.2 DEFINITION OF TERM

STRATEGY

According to the Oxford Advanced Dictionary strategy is define as plan that is intended to achieve a particular purpose or process of learning into something. In other words, it can be the process of putting a plan into operation in a skillful way.

1.3 ENHANCE

It means to increase or further improve the good quality value or status o f something. It is also opportunity to the reputation of the company.

1.4 TEACHING

          Gage (1994:4) observed teaching as any interpersonal influence aimed at changing the ways in which other persons can or will behave.

In other words, teaching deal of a particular person or group especially about political, region or society, that is taught to other people.

Teaching is a systematic, rational and organized process of transmitting knowledge, attitudes, and skills in accordance with professional principal principles.

According to Thompson (1969) observed that teaching identifies with communication, which involves the transmission of information from senders to receiver and from receivers to senders.

THE STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF COMPUTER SCIENCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOL (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)