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TEACHING COMPETENCE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION STUDENT TEACHERS

  • 1. Research Scholar, Department of Education, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Tamilnadu
  • 2. Professor, Department of Education, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Tamilnadu

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Teaching is a skill and it is an art. It needs to be systematically learnt, mastered by practice, and reinforced by professional development.Successful teaching involves the use of a wide range of competence and without the use of those requisite competence teaching would bound to fail in achieving the instructional outcomes. This study investigates the teaching competence of distance education student teachers. A sample of 1000 student teachers doing B.Ed. training course in the distance mode of education in the 3 selected universities in Tamilnadu were selected using simple random sampling technique and they were provided with ‘Teaching Competence Scale’ prepared and validated by Moreno-Murcia, Torregrosa and Pedreño (2015). The collected survey was statistically analysed using IBM-SPSS software and the results reveal the following: The level of teaching competence of distance education student teachers is average. No significant difference was found in the teaching competence between the male and female; the rural and urban residence; the UG and PG qualified; and the arts and science subject specialization distance education student teachers.

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