TEACHING COMPETENCE OF STUDENT TEACHERS DURING TEACHING PRACTICE IN RELATION TO THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARDS TEACHING PROFESSION

Abstract

Teachers are said to be the builders of the future generation and Student Teachers are the one who became school teachers. Hence the future of our nation depends on the effectiveness of these teachers. In this context competent Student Teachers with requisite teacher behaviors and positive views about their profession are needed in order to prepare teachers for the future generation who would live in a competitive technological, globalized world of today and tomorrow. The teaching competence of Student Teachers may be related to their attitude towards teaching profession. Hence the researcher felt an imperative need to assess the teaching competence, personality type and attitude towards teaching profession of student teachers. In this study Teaching Competence (TC), Attitude towards Teaching Profession (ATTP) was used and 100 Student Teachers working in four colleges of education out of which one was Government, three were Private unaided, affiliated to osmania university. Here researcher found Majority of student teachers that is 66.62% of student teachers possess average level of teaching competence Majority of student teachers that is 79.4% of them possess average favorable Attitude towards teaching profession and there is average positive relationship between the Attitude towards the teaching profession & teaching Competence and the value is significant at 0.05 levels. Also there is positive relationship between the Attitude towards the teaching profession & teaching Competence of the student teachers with respect gender and methodology and it could not bring significant at any levels.