ATTITUDE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS TOWARDS TEACHING COMPUTER AS A PROFESSION IN OWERRI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF IMO STATE

The study was carried out with the view of finding out the attitude of senior secondary students towards computer teaching profession in Owerri municipal council of Imo State. To direct the study, the research questions were formulated, literatures that were related to the study were reviewed. A total number of two hundred and fifty two (252) students were sampled from 4497 population in the five public secondary schools in Owerri and the study adopted a descriptive study research design. Average mean was used to answer the research questions. Three purpose of the study emerged and three research question were also postulated and answered, the first research question which found out what is the attitude of senior secondary school students towards teaching computer as a profession was confirmed positive to a large extent, the second which found out to what extent has computer teacher's impacted student In senior secondary schools was also confirmed positive to a very large extent. Similarly, the last which asked what are the benefits of being a computer teacher was confirmed to a vet)/ large extent. Among the recommendation was that only professionals and trained computer teachers should be employed in secondary schools for effective teaching and learning. A limitation was that the study was done in just Owerri municipal and further studies suggested enlargement of the scope to cover the entire gender in Imo state for generalization.