Information Communication Technology in Manuel A. Roxas High School

Abstract

The study sought to determine the status of Information Communication Technology Instruction in Public Secondary Schools in the City of San Carlos, Pangasinan during the school year 2025 – 2026 in terms of teachers’ profile, availability of hardware and software technologies, level of technology competencies in nine (9) domains of ICT strengths and needs of teachers in teaching ICT and the problems encountered. The respondents consisted of 64 TLE teachers teaching ICT in the Ramon Magsaysay National High School, Manila.

The salient findings of the study are as follows: Most of the teachers are within the age bracket from 22-39 years, do not have background in ICT, have attended seminars/training for 3-4 times for the last 2 years are been in the service for 8 years or more; Only computer and television are available under hardware technologies and computer programs and telecasts/telecine under software technologies are fully available to all the 15 school; The level of teachers’ technology competencies in the domains of Basic Computer Operation Skills, Word Processing, Spread sheets are describe as “Competent”. The other ICT domains namely: Setup, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Equipment, Database, Networking, Telecommunication, Media Communication and Social, Legal and Ethical Issues are describe as “Somewhat Competent”; With the exception of educational attainment related to ICT, no significant differences between teachers’ technology competencies and age, length of service and attendance in seminars/training were found to exist; There are strengths and needs of teachers along the nine (9) domains of ICT. In some areas, there are more needs than strengths; The most serious problems encountered by teachers are lack of funds in the provision of technologies, lack of “know-how” in the use of the different technologies and lack of training in the preparation, maintenance and troubleshooting of equipment and A proposed plan of action to improve the level of technology competencies of teachers can be formulated.