EXAMINING TEACHING COMPETENCE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MALE AND FEMALE SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

Teaching competence is an effective performance of all observable teacher behaviour that brings about preferred student learning outcomes. The aim of present study is to study and compare teaching competence of male and female secondary school teachers For the collection of data “General Teaching Competence Scale (Passi & Lalitha, 2009)” has been employed. Statistical techniques were employed to give a concise picture to the data so that it can be easily comprehended. “t” test as statistical technique was employed for testing the hypotheses. Descriptive statistics like Mean, Median, Standard Deviation (SD), were used to see the nature of distribution of the scores. Percentage statistics was calculated to study the levels of teaching competence among secondary school teachers.  The findings revealed among secondary school teachers (male and female) 21.875% fall in high, 62.5% fall in medium and 15.625% fall in low categories of teaching competence. The findings revealed among male secondary school teachers 25% fall in high, 56.25 % fall in medium and 18.75 fall in low categories of teaching competence. Further the findings also reveal that among female secondary teachers 18.75% fall in high, 68.75% fall in medium and 12.5% fall in low categories of teaching competence. The findings of the study have depicted a significant mean difference between male and female secondary school teachers on teaching competence.

KEYWORDS: Teacher, Teaching, Competence, Gender, Secondary School, Classroom, Planning, Presentation, Closing, Evaluation and Managing.