Secondary School Teachers’ Teaching Experience and the Utilization of Electronic Media for Teaching in Ilorin Metropolis

Electronic media are diverse set of electronic technologies, technological tools and resources used to communicate, create, disseminate, store and manage information. The study was based on Secondary School Teachers’ Teaching Experience and the utilization of electronic media for teaching in Ilorin Metropolis. The study examined the types of electronic media available and used for teaching. Three hundred teachers were randomly selected from twenty schools with fifteen respondents (15) from each sampled senior secondary schools in the selected three local governments in Ilorin metropolis. At the end of the survey, a total of two hundred and fifty-four (254) teachers adequately responded and that was used for the study. Two research questions were answered and one hypothesis was tested. Mean scores and percentages were used to answer the two research questions while t-test was used to test the hypothesis. The findings of the study showed that four (4) of the electronic media were not available in school among the eighteen (18) listed electronic media, other electronic media were available. Eleven (11) were used while the remaining seven (7) were not used by the teachers. It was reported that there was no significant difference in teachers’ utilization of electronic media based on experience with the t-test value of t(252) = -1.438, P>0.05. Therefore the study concluded that teachers teaching experience revealed that no significant difference was found in the utilization of electronic media by experienced and less experienced teachers. Based on the findings, the study recommends that since electronic media is an essential facility in the teaching and learning, policy makers should involve not only training teachers but also retraining and constantly updating their skills to enable them to keep pace with usable electronic media.
Keywords: Influence, Teaching Experience, Teaching, Electronic Media, Ilorin Metropolis.