TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS AND PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCY IN SCHOOL EDUCATION

Quality of teaching determines the quality of education. The teacher, his/her personal qualities, attitude and dedication towards teaching profession, educational qualification and professional training etc. play a vital role in modern education. Achievement of effective education can be brought about by the efforts of a team of high quality teachers. Therefore, the role of a teacher is pivotal in arousing enthusiasm and inspiring a person for learning and sharpening one's intelligence and wisdom. Research findings have shown that besides students' intelligence and industrious nature, effective school, descent class room climate, well equipped teaching faculty, furnished libraries and laboratories difficulty level of question papers, successful completion of actual classroom instruction days, effective use of information and communication technologies etc. are crucial factors for effective educational standards. Therefore, the present study involves two aspects of the namely Teacher Effectiveness and Professional Competency. The objective of the study is to study the Teacher Effectiveness and Professional Competency among school teachers. A structured questionnaire was used to gather responses from the sample of 305 school teachers. Based on literature review, Research model was drawn and the researcher made an attempt to validate the model using Partial Least Square- Path Modeling (PLS-PM)