EFFECT OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME ON TEACHING COMPETENCE OF PRE-SERVICE SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

The purpose of the present investigation was to study the effect of skill development programme on the teaching competence of pre-service secondary school teachers. The study was experimental in nature with a pre-test post-test control group design. The sample comprised 200 pre-service secondary school teachers belonging to government and self-financed colleges of education of Jalandhar district. The colleges were randomly assigned to the treatment. General Teaching Competency Scale by B.K. Passi and M. S. Lalitha was used as a measure of teaching competence. Data were analysed with the help of One Way Analysis of Covariance. Skill Development Programme based upon Microteaching was found to be superior to Traditional Method in fostering Teaching Competence when Pre-Teaching Competence was taken as a covariate