Abstract-
Information and Communication Technology has revolutionized the activities in education, research and developmental activities during the past few years. Now a-days, the information and Communication Technology is applied to all areas of human life. Hence, the different applications of IT such as Computers, digital technology, digital information, telecommunication including  mobile and Bluetooth technology internet, video conferencing, etc. are very useful for the education and research, For this purpose, present study was undertaken to study the knowledge of the women teachers working in school and colleges teacher in Amravati city. The study contained the questions on the knowledge about Telephones, Mobile phones, computers, computer networks, computer programming languages internet etc. The questionnaires were distributed to 150 women teachers. It is noted that only few women teachers know about the computers. And the majority of teachers are not using the internet regularly and they do not know about different utilities of internet such as FTP, Web logs, e-books, e-journals, etc. Almost women teachers covered under the study do not know about Multimedia, operating CDs and DVDs, Video Conferencing and Teleconferencing. The paper concluded with the remarks that the women teachers must have to learn basic computer skills and internet. In this respect, it is suggested to the Government to conduct training and orientation programmers to the women’s teacher working in schools and colleges in computers and information technology applications.

Objectives

1. To promote development and implementation of strategies to encourage the entry, development and retention of women in the ICT profession
2. To know the knowledge of women’s teacher about using ICT.
3. Promote new behaviors for teaching.
4. Change the culture of the use ICT
5. To know about the attitude of the women teachers in using ICT

Methodology
Questionnaire method is the most popular method data collection in social sciences. Therefore the present survey is conducted through questionnaire method. Questionnaire were circulated among the schools and colleges women’s teacher working in different located through personal interaction with the teachers. Of the approximate number of total 150 women’s teachers and all teachers are responded to the study. The collected date is analyzed, tabulate, interpreted and presented as under.

Conclusion And Recommendation

The study revealed that women teacher in Amravati have the knowledge of the ICT, but the usage was low compared with the adequate knowledge. Women are confronted with certain challenges that hinder the effective usage.

From the findings above, it is recommended that an enabling environment that will encourage the usage of ICT by women. Women should be encouraged to acquire more ICT skills and knowledge. Proper utilization of the ict tools should be ensured. ICT infrastructure should be provided to facilitate effective teaching and learning so as to meet up with the present educational challenges. Efforts should be made to reduce and suppress the factors that are militating against the usage of ICT.

Teachers are change agents in schools. They are key drivers who play crucial roles in technology integration in the schools and college. It is important for them to possess positive computer attitudes since attitudes has been found to be linked to usage and intention to use, variables that determine successful technology integration in education. In other words, computer attitudes, whether positive or negative, affect how teachers respond to technology in an instructional setting or learning environment. This in turn affects the way students react to computers in schools, college and current and future computer usage. Despite the high level of technology in schools, extent to which it is optimized depends on teachers having a positive attitude towards it. This study suggests a need for teacher educators to provide a conducive and non-threatening environment for women teachers to experience success in using the computers, with a view to allowing women’s teachers to gain competence and confidence in using computers for teaching and learning.

This study provides a glimpse of selected variables that affect the computer attitudes of women teachers. Future studies could include a systematic examination of all aspects of teacher education and how these interact to impact on women teacher’s attitudes, acceptance, and usage of the computer as a tool for instructional purposes and professional development.

Study the ICT of women teacher attitude towards. ICT in relation to their school, college teaching subjects. In result, women teachers’ attitude towards ICT is not positive.

ICT in relation to their school of colleges teaching subjects. It is believed that women would not be a factor influencing attitudes towards computers in the near Future, as computers become a prevalent toll in our daily life, regardless of whether one likes to use it or not.

This research shows that the college & school teacher positive attitude towards ICT in relation to their school & college teaching subjects for many reasons. They appeared to be aware that the computer held many benefits for them as a teacher, guide and facilitator for their students in their effective learning. Their attitudes towards this technology were positive. Although much need to be done to increase internet use and skills among teachers, this finding proves encouraging as studies have clearly shown that the success of computer utilization was very much related to the users attitudes toward the computer.

Internet experience also encouraged positive attitudes towards the computer. The fact of teaching staff being young can provide the ICT integration due to its recent formation. Nevertheless, these teachers due to its little experience and in circumstances that they don’t trust in their work and in their competences, may have fear to apply the new technologies. Therefore the government needs to pay more attention on intensive training for women’s teachers. Funds need to be pumped into training so that the right attitudes can be given teachers. Attitudes and perceptions on the use of ict developed by teachers. The new enhanced ICT curriculum should thus be able to provide a paradigm shift from exam based teaching to provision of skills in managing ICT classes, and the knowledge of integration ICT without reliance to the curriculum. These indeed are facets that proper ICT training should impart in teachers.

This study focused on women teachers’ attitude and use of ICT. Future studies should be done in terms of student’s perception on teacher towards knowledge attitude and use of ICT. This will be enabling the policy makers to make improvement in the current education system as well as look into teachers needs. This study is limited to survey thus future study done should include interview or observation to further enhance the findings.

The women’s teacher should be given opportunities to prepare and use educational slides –still as well as multimedia (including movie, animation, sound, etc.) Internet facilities and video conferencing facilities should be extended in all colleges so that the women’s teacher trainees can make reference to the best resource materials and interact with their colleges or educational experts. The subject curriculum should be revised by including exposure to various educational software in the field of education. Women’s Teacher should be given opportunity for power point presentation or multimedia presentation with multimedia projector while doing practice teaching.