PROFILING OF MOROCCAN HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICAL SCIENCE TEACHERS FOR IN-SERVICE TRAINING IN ICT: A CROSS-SECTIONAL EXPLORATORY STUDY

Abstract

In this article, we have addressed the question of determining the general profile of the concrete practices of our participants in relation to the pedagogical use of computers.  To achieve such an objective, we worked with a sample composed of 50 teachers of physical sciences from different high schools in the region of Tetouan.  For this purpose, the content of the initial and continuous training of these teachers was analyzed in order to draw a general profile of their actual practices in this context. The results showed that our participants are not sufficiently equipped for the pedagogical use of computers in the classroom. On the contrary, they have more of a didactician profile. The contents of the training received were mainly focused on the didactics of a particular subject, either physics or chemistry.  Faced with this situation, it seems to us that proceeding with the continuous training of teachers in the pedagogical use of computers in general, and ICT in particular, would be a good way to compensate for the low computer level of our teachers. This would also make up for the lack of initial training of the latter in the pedagogical use of computers.