Teacher’s Prospective on Effectiveness of Mobile Teaching during the COVID-19 Pandemic for the Secondary Classes of Norbuling CS, Bhutan

Authors

  • Dorji N Teacher, Ministry of Education, BHUTAN
  • Sonam Wangchuk Principal, Zhemgnag LSS, Zhemgang, BHUTAN

Keywords:

COVID-19, mobile teaching, online mode, Bhutan

Abstract

Mobile teaching in general understood as to reach the un-reach and make the learning possible using different methods within short period of time. Mobile teaching is about planning and executing learning through mobile devices. When the country was hit by the first COVID 19, case in 6th March 2020 the education institution went under closure strictly instructed teachers to follow mobile teaching. As it was the new practices, many teachers and students took time to adapt to the new situation at first but as time went by, they slowly took a satisfactory turn to adjust to the mobile teaching with great difficulties. But still it is not proven at what level the teachers and students are comfortable with the mobile teaching. The study was carried out on 42 teachers currently teaching secondary classes (I-VIII) using online mode to find out the effectiveness of mobile teaching. Finding reveals that the use of mobile teaching in learning associate with great achievement during the school closure though contact teaching was found to be much effective in students learning. The finding also shows large number of female teachers (about 90 percent) are comfortable with mobile teaching and only few male teachers are having difficulties in using the new platform of teaching.

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Author Biographies

Dorji N , Teacher, Ministry of Education, BHUTAN

Dorji N is currently working as a teacher in Zhemgang Lower Secondary School, Zhemgang. He received his PTC (Primary Teaching Certificate) in 2000 from PCE and Bachelor of Education from Paro College of Education in 2017 and M. Ed from Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India, in 2020. He have published numerous paper from Indian UGC approved journal, few in International Journal and also presented papers in both International and Indian National seminar while perusing his master’s degree in India.

Sonam Wangchuk, Principal, Zhemgnag LSS, Zhemgang, BHUTAN

Sonam Wangchuk is currently working as Principal in Zhemgang Lower Secondary School. He received his Bachelors of Education in 2005 and completed M. Ed in Leaderships & Management in 2018 from Paro College of Education, Royal University of Bhutan. He has also attended Young Professional Leadership Program (YPLP) III from one of the premier institute of Bhutan; Royal Institute for Governance and Strategic Studies, Phuntsholing in 2016. Mr. Sonam is a passionate educationist and a learner. He is keenly delving into research projects for the better performance of his services to his country.

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Published

2021-01-30

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Dorji N, & Sonam Wangchuk. (2021). Teacher’s Prospective on Effectiveness of Mobile Teaching during the COVID-19 Pandemic for the Secondary Classes of Norbuling CS, Bhutan. International Journal for Research in Applied Sciences and Biotechnology, 8(1), 221–225. Retrieved from https://ijrasb.com/index.php/ijrasb/article/view/118

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2021): January Issue

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