A Study of Teaching Competency in Relation with Attitude Towards Creative Teaching of B.Ed. Trainee-teachers

Abstract

This paper is a study of the relation of teaching competency to the attitude towards creative teaching of trainee-teachers for Himalayan region. Due to technological interventions the world is changing quickly, a teacher requires to teach effectively with creative ideology in order to students make perfect for the competitive world. Competent teacher always requires creative teaching &continuous efforts on the development of new trends of teaching. Himalayan regions each levels of educational institutions news very sad to teacher’s services has affected by geographical barriers i.e. extreme and remote areas located regions of Himalayan Garhwal territories. Teaching involves various skills, ideas, thinking and important determinant are teaching can be made creatively, its how teacher learns and succeed in real class room situations. The present study has conducted on the sample of 264 B.Ed. trainee-teachers in various teachers training institutions. General Teaching Competency Scale developed by Dr. B.K. Passi and M.S. Lalita (1994) and Attitude scale towards creative teaching has developed by Dr. R.P. Shukla (2012) used to collect the data administer on two years B.Ed. training programme. During school internship regular teaching classes of B.Ed. programme was scheduled, Micro and Macro teaching skill demonstration as theory were taught bytrainee-teachers as a part of their third semester. The collected data analyzed with statistics of mean, SD, t-test and correlation of Pearson-r used for the descriptive research. The results in this study revealed that Teaching Competency and attitude towards creative teaching has difference exists in percentage of trainee-teachers. The teaching competency of trainee-teachers is founda significance differences between the Pedagogical groups. Attitude of trainee-teachers towards creative teaching mean have significant difference exists in their Gender, Caste, and Qualifications bases. The influence of teacher training programme on attitude towards creative teaching of Science stream is highest with the comparison of Humanities streams trainee-teachers. Find a positive relation in teaching competency with attitude of trainee teachers towards their creative teaching.

Keywords: Teaching Competency, Creative Attitude, trainee-teachers and Himalayan region institutions.