21ST CENTURY TEACHING COMPETENCY OF STUDENT TEACHERS

A survey has been undertaken to probe the Teaching Competency of student teacher in Tamil Nadu state. 622 student teachers were selected from various Education Colleges in Tamil Nadu state through random sampling technique. Normative survey method was used. This study is proposed to find out the levels of Teaching Competency of student teachers and significant difference between the selected pairs of sub-samples. Teaching Competency scale constructed and validated by the researcher (2014) was used to collect the data. This study reveals that the majority of student teachers Teaching Competency were average. There exists significant difference between sub samples related to Locality, Email holders, Computer literacy and Parental income.