Abstract
This study determined the level of Teachers’ ICT Literacy and the utilization of ICT in teaching Araling Panlipunan among teachers of Private Secondary Schools of Valencia City for the school year 2020. Specifically, this study sought to describe the respondents’ demographic profile in terms of; age, gender, marital status, years in teaching Social Studies/Araling Panlipunan, total teaching hours per week, and the available ICT Resources. Determine the ICT literacy of the respondents in terms of General Computer Usage and Online Communication. Find out to what extent they use ICT to teach Social Studies/ Araling Panlipunan. Determine the significant relationship between the teachers’ ICTliteracy level and their utilization of ICTs in teaching Social/Araling Panlipunan and to ascertain the significant difference in the teachers’ ICT level when group according to respondent’s age, gender, marital status, ICT years of teaching, teaching hours per week and available ICT resources? This study used a descriptive-correlation research method which was designed for the researchers to gather information about present existing conditions needed in the chosen field of the study. It was conducted among private schools of the municipality of Valencia City offering Junior and Senior High Schools for this school year 2019-2020; namely: Infant Jesus School of Bukidnon. Valencia Baptist Christian Academy, San Augustine Institute of Technology, IBA College of Mindanao, Philippine College Foundation, First Fruit Academy, Seventh Day Adventist, STI, AMA and Academy, and Valencia Colleges Incorporated. The respondents of the study are secondary school teachers of Private Schools teaching Social Studies/Araling Panlipunan in Junior and Senior high school. This study employed a purposive or take-all method. Descriptive statistics were employed in this study such as frequency count and percentage, weighted mean and standard deviation, Pearson r, and regression analysis were used. It was revealed in this study that the majority of respondents are females and the majority of them are singles. The majority of respondents have 4-10 years of teaching the majority of teacher respondents have 16-20 hours of teaching per week. There was a Very High Level in terms of hours per week and the Majority have their own personal laptop, a Very High level of ICT literacy in General Computer Usage and Online Communication. A Very High Extent in the Utilization of ICT in Teaching Araling Panlipunan. There was a Significant Relationship between teachers’ ICT literacy level and utilization in teaching Aaraling Panlipunan. Therefore, the null hypothesis is rejected. There was a significant difference in the teacher’s ICT level when grouped according to respondent’s age, gender, marital status, ICT years of teaching, teaching hours per week, and available ICT resources, therefore a statement of the null hypothesis is rejected.
