it about educators competencies

1. Teacher educators
competencies
By
Qurratulain Munawwar

2. Teacher Educators
■ Teacher educators are the teachers of teachers.They have different
competencies than a normal school teacher.
Teacher educators are:
• Beginning – experienced - expert
• Educators of pedagogy and didactics
• Educators of pedagogical content knowledge – discipline-specific teacher
educators

3. Teacher educators
competencies includes:
• Teaching competencies
• Professional competencies
• Pedagogical competencies
Malik & urooj 2012

4. 1-Teaching competencies
■ It involves provision of training and practice of various teaching
approaches, techniques and strategies to potential teachers to enable
them to plan and communicate instruction, reinforce and motivate
learners and to conduct effective evaluation and assessment. It
encompasses managerial skills (classroom management, time
management etc.), preparation and employment of pedagogical
material, and interpersonal competencies

5. 2-Professional competencies
It adhere to teaching strategies, techniques and approaches,
which are beneficial for teachers to excel in respective
profession. It comprises soft skills, computer skills,
information retrieving and management skills, interpersonal
and counseling skills and above all lifelong learning
competencies

6. 3-Pedagogical competencies
■ Pedagogical theory involves the sociological, philosophical
and psychological contemplations intend to provide
rigorous basis to prospective teachers for execution of
teaching skills in classroom setting.Theory discusses the
reasons, needs and requirements of particular situation in
classroom

7. Teacher professional
competencies
■ Knowledge
■ Performance and skills
■ disposition

8. Knowledge
■ Complete grip on subject knowledge
■ Focusing new ideas
■ Balance in theory & practice
■ Clear image of aims, goals and objectives of subject
■ Effective classroom management
■ Concept of classroom assessment
■ Ensuring the reliable & valid measures
■ Multiple assessment techniques
■ Focusing communication skills
■ Integrating ICT
■ Use of ICT as a instruction

9. Performance and skills
■ Making knowledge easy & understandable
■ Exemplifying the daily life
■ Use of motivation
■ Proper lesson planning
■ Enhancing students’ interest
■ Analysis students performance
■ Student involvement
■ Objective assessment tools
Iqbal & hussain

10. Disposition
■ Diversified instructional strategies
■ Promoting talent & building up confidence
■ Linking ideas to reality
■ fostering critical thinking& problem solving
■ appreciating collaborative learning
■ resolving classroom problem
■ Promoting peer relationship
■ Promoting democratic values
■ Constructive climate

11. Example
■ AIOU develop in 2002 about teacher
competencies level for pre service,
induction and in service teachers

12. Competences by AIOU
1. Development of teacher’s ability to take care of himself.
2. Development of the ability according to different level of student age
groups.
3. Development of good command of subject content.
4. Development of teaching skills.

13. 5. Development of capacity to do, observe, infer and to generalize.
6. Development of searching skills for sources and study material.
7. Development of appreciation of difficulties experienced by the students,
parents, with a sympathetic response.
8. Development of proper perception of the problems of universal enrolment,
regular attendance, year to year promotion and holding of the scroll till the end
of the stage of education (AIOU, 2002).

14. References
■ https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ922781.pdf
■ http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/JEE/PDF-
Files/9_Iqbal%20&%20Hussain%2025(II).pdf
■ https://work.chron.com/list-core-competencies-educators-
8916.html
■ book|beginning of educators