STUDY OF TEACHER EFFICACY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN RELATION TO THEIR TEACHING COMPETENCY
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Present study focuses on teacher efficacy of secondary school teachers and its relation with teaching competency. This study was carried out in rural and urban secondary school teachers. Data was collected mainly through questionnaire. Teacher Efficacy Scale (TES) by Kumar and General Teaching Competency Scale (GTCS) by Passi and Lalitha were used respectively. Sample of 200 urban and rural secondary school teachers were randomly selected for collecting data. This study demonstrated that there is a relationship between teacher efficacy and teaching competency. This study also revealed that there is significant difference between rural and urban secondary school teachers.
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I. High competent teacher and high teaching effectiveness has significant positive impact on students’ achievement, that is to say, students under high competent teachers and also under teachers with high teaching effectiveness achieve significantly better than those under low competent teachers and also under teacher with low teaching effectiveness.
II. The findings indicate that students do differ significantly in achievement of different subjects due to teaching by high or low competent teachers and that high teaching efficacy has significant positive impact on students’ achievement in different subjects. Therefore, skills to develop teaching have to be nurtured by training.
III. There is significant correlation found between teacher competency and teaching effectiveness which signifies that teacher competency factors are related to teaching effectiveness. So, skills of teacher competency have to be developed for better teaching effectiveness through training.
IV. The presented study may be undertaken on large samples to get more reliable results.
V. The conclusions derived from the present investigation were based on the study of 200 secondary school teachers of Gurdaspur district. The study can be conducted on large samples from other areas also.
VI. The interaction among the teachers and the favorable environmental conditions of the institution absolutely leads to good teaching competency and teacher efficacy among teachers.
VII. The study helps in measuring and improving the teacher efficacy and teaching competency of secondary school teachers.
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