Author: Samten Tamang
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.70798/PP/020400034
Abstract: Intellectual ability is undoubtedly an important factor in predicting teacher’s success. However, just possessing high level of intelligence, high academic and educational qualifications are not entirely indicative of the teacher’s success in teaching profession. Rather, skills and teaching competency are essential ingredients to be professional teacher. A teacher’s competency in 21st century according to UNESCO (2008) is that a competent teacher should have firm knowledge of the curriculum of his/her subject and to use technology into the curriculum. Teaching competency refers to the knowledge, attitude, skills and self perception that come from by mixing these behaviors and resulting in consistent pattern of behavior leading to the attainment of expected outcomes. The objectives of the study were to study teaching competency among teachers in relation to gender, subjects, educational qualification and teaching experience variations.Normative survey method was used for the study. A random sample of 100 teachers had been selected out of the total population using lottery system. The 100 samples taken for the study had been stratified under gender, teaching subject, Educational qualification and teaching experience. To measure the teaching competencies among teachers, tool developed by Mohapatra (1988) had been used for data collection. The findings of the study werethat there was significant difference in teaching competencies in relation to gender variation and teaching experience but non-significant difference in teaching competencies among teachers teaching science and non-science subjects at the secondary school, teachers who had B.Ed. General and B.Ed. secondary educational qualification.
Keywords: Teaching Competencies, Teaching Profession, Intellectual Ability etc.
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