CULTURAL AND CREATIVE ARTS TEACHERS PERCEPTION ON THE USE OF E-TEACHING FOR BASIC SCHOOLS AMIDST COVID-19 IN OYO METROPOLIS

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Abstract

The outbreak of covid-19 in the year 2020 led to total lock-down of the entire activities of the world. Nigeria among other nations shutdown educational sector almost throughout the year which affect the school calendar, the few schools that have less negative effect of the pandemic are those private schools who adopted e-teaching and learning classroom instruction. The second phase/wave of the pandemic was coming and in order to avoid another educational setback there is need to emphasize E-Teaching and learning across all educational level. This paper addressed the perception of Cultural and Creative Arts on the use of ICT for basic schools amidst covid 19 in Oyo metropolis and 120 Cultural and Creative Arts teachers purposively selected across 845 basic Schools in Oyo metropolis for the study. Through survey method of analysis, mean rating scale statistical is used to describe the data collected. It is discovered that CCA teachers in Oyo metropolis perceived the use of E-Teaching and learning in basic schools amidst of covid 19 as welcome development, inadequate supply of ICT tools, poor knowledge of some of their members about ICT gadget, power failure among others. The paper therefore recommended adequate supply of ICT tools, workshops on ICT and a host of others to the basic schools and concluded that if all the aforementioned are implemented, it will go a long way in rescuing educational setback caused by Covid-19.