Enhancing Teaching Competency

1. ENHANCING TEACHING COMPETENCY OF
B.Ed. STUDENT-TEACHERS
Dr.P.Pachaiyappan, Associate Professor,GRT College of Education,Tiruttani,Tamilnadu.

2. Teaching Competencies
NCTE has identified 10 teacher competencies as follows:
(1) Contextual Competencies
(2) Conceptual Competencies
(3) Content Related Competencies
(4) Transactional Competencies
(5) Educational Activities Related Competency
(6) Competencies to Develop Teaching Learning Material
(7) Evaluation Competencies
(8) Management Competencies
(9) Competencies Related to Working with Parents
(10) Competencies Related to Working with Community and
Other Agencies

3. 1. Contextual Competencies
Ø Teacher should ensure that the parents and
the community are accepting the importance
and usefulness of their efforts.
ØIt includes dealing with problems of wastage
and stagnation, diversities in society,
developing cohesive society and issues like
urbanization and value inculcation.

4. 2. Conceptual Competencies
ØThe teacher should have Clarity of thought, deep
understanding of educational theories and
thorough knowledge of various educational
trends, pedagogical methods, techniques etc.
Øcharacteristics of child development, knowledge
of classroom organization and management.
ØConcepts and educational implications of
globalization, modernization, liberalization and
privatization have to be understood by teachers.

5. 3. Content Related Competencies
Ø Teacher should have mastery over the content
of the subject he/she has to teach.

6. 4. Transactional Competencies
Ø Teachers should have necessary skills to achieve educational
objectives effectively through meaningful interaction with
pupils and the environment by using different methods,
activities and technology in an integrated and effective
manner.
Ø Teacher should have the Skill of motivation & using various
instructional strategies.
Ø Skill of using smart board effectively.
Ø Teacher educators should Improve Student-teachers
teaching skills by giving Demonstration lessons.
Ø Every student-teacher must observe the Guide teachers
class during the teaching practice.
Ø Student-teachers are motivated to attend various
confereneces,workshops, field visits and seminars etc. to
improve their professional competencies.

7. 4. Transactional Competencies……
Ø Skill of using and accessing Quick Response(QR)code
when transacting the school curriculum.

8. 4. Transactional Competencies……
• Teachers must have a skill of writing Lesson plan
The following steps are involved in preparation of lesson plan.
(Herbartian steps)
1. Preparation or Introduction
2. Presentation
3. Comparison or Association
4. Generalization
5. Application
6. Recapitulation
Content Specifications Learning
Experience
Evaluation

9. Bloom’s (1956) Taxonomy of
Educational Objectives
Prof. BENJAMIN S. BLOOM
University of Chicago (USA)

10. BLOOMS TAXONOMY
COGNITIVE
AREA OF
KNOWING
AFFECTIVE
AREA OF
FEELING
PSYCHO-
MOTOR
AREA OF
DOING
HEARTHEAD HANDS

11. Cognitive Domain

12. Affective Domain

13. Psycho-motor Domain

14. 4. Transactional Competencies……
The student teachers must be trained to acquire the following Micro-teaching skills:
1. Skill of writing instructional objectives.
2. Skill of introducing the lesson.
3. Skill of fluency in questioning.
4. Skill of explaining.
5. Skill of probing questions.
6. Skill of illustrating with examples.
7. Skill of stimulus variation.
8. Skill of silence and non-verbal cues.
9. Skill of reinforcement.
10. Skill of increasing pupil participation.
11. Skill of using black board.
12. Skill of achieving closure.
13. Skill of recognizing attending behaviour.
14. Skill of Experimentation.
15. Skill of diagnosing difficulties of students related to subject matter.
16. Skill of using the teaching aids.
17. Skill of maintaining the science laboratory.
18. Skill of giving assignment.
19. Skill of developing critical and independent thinking among the students.
20. Skill of maintaining Discipline.
21. Skill of pacing the lesson.

15. 4. Transactional Competencies……
Maxims of Teaching
Ø A successful teacher should know about these principles and try to
follow them as far as possible in his/her teaching .
1. From known to unknown
2. From simple to complex
3. From concrete to abstract
4. From analysis to synthesis
5. From particular to general
6. From empirical to rational
7. From induction to deduction
8. From psychological to logical
9. From Actual to Representative
10. From Whole to Parts
11. From seen to unseen
12. From definite to indefinite

16. 5. Educational Activities Related
Competencies
Ø Ability to organize curricular, co-curricular activities, social and cultural activities
for achieving educational objectives.
Ø Should Visit Innovative Schools and observe the best practices see if they can be
implemented when they get appointed in schools.
Ø Student-teachers should use the language lab for effective communication in
the classroom.
Ø To inculcate the Reading habit and to improve their English communication skills
News papers kept in news paper stands and should be accessible to the
students.
Ø Every College of Education must train the student-teachers in conducting
practicals in subjects like Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology, Computer
science etc. at high school level (IX and X-std) and higher secondary level (XI and
XII-std).
Ø To improve the practical skills of student-teachers the teacher educators should
make use of the lab facilities
§ Physical Science Lab
§ Biological Science Lab
§ Psychology Lab
§ Computer Lab
§ Mathematics Lab
§ Educational Technology Lab
§ Class Library

17. 6. Competencies to Develop Teaching
Learning Material
Ø Student-teachers should have an ability to develop
interesting
§ teaching aids
§ self-learning material
§ audio-visual aids
§ work books
§ activity books and
§ to use electronic gadgets like Computers,
Mobile Phones, Social Media etc.

18. Edgar Dale (April 27, 1900 – March 8, 1985) was a
U.S. educationist who developed the famous Cone
of Experience. He made several contributions to
audio and visual instruction.

20. 7. Evaluation Competencies
• Teacher should have to continuously evaluate the students
in a systematic and formal manner.
• Maintain observation records and diagnose the problem
that children face in comprehending what is taught.
• Teaching practice (16 weeks of school internship) is
mandatory to enhance the teaching competency of
Student-teachers.
• The faculty members should visit the student-teachers
teaching practice schools and give the necessary feedback.
• Student-teachers should know to construct the
achievement test.

21. 8. Management Competencies
Ø Teacher should have a skill of achieving high quality
educational objectives in minimum time, energy
and money through appropriate and effective use of
educational aids and active participation of available
human resources.
Ø Teacher should have the skill of classroom
management.

22. 9. Competencies Related to Working with
Parents
• Teacher should have the ability to get the co-operation
from the parents and their involvement in achieving
the educational objectives.
10. Competencies Related to Working with
Community and Other Agencies
• Teacher must have the ability to work towards bringing
the school and the community as closer as possible.
• To mould the teacher trainees as effective social agents
to transform the society towards prosperity.
• He/she must understand the role of community in
development of the school.

23. Other competencies
• Environmental Competencies
• Soft Skills
• Life Skills
• Digital Skills
• Computer Skills
• Techno-pedagogical Skills
• Communication and Interpersonal Skills
• Guidance and Counselling
• Study skills
• Learning styles
• To inculcate spiritual and moral values among the teacher- trainees
• Yoga
• Physical Education
• Indoor Games
• Gym
• Mental Health Education
• SUPW
• Vocal and Instrumental Music
• Dance
• NSS
• Coaching for TET Examination
• Placements

24. Conclusion
The above mentioned competencies are
significant and need to be developed among
student-teachers to make them professionally
competent. It will help to improve the quality
of education.