TEACHING COMPETENCY OF STUDENT TEACHERS IN RELATION TO THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARDS TEACHING

Teaching being a passionate activity requires a positive attitude and the certain specific proficiencies from the practitioners.Teachers' aptitude depends on attitude he/she has for profession.The acute positive attitude aids teacher for the development of a conductive student friendly atmosphere in classroom.It casts a prolific effect on the learning of students.The attitude being a collective construct is actually influenced by numerous factors like age, gender, social strata, stream of education as well as the earlier experience of it.Virtuous teachers are accountable for the improvement of the quality of its students.There is an urgent need to examine the teacher's attitude towards the profession as of now our system of education undergoes major improvements and changes.It's not enough if future educators are empowered with skills and knowledge rather they should essentially possess a favourable attitude towards the teaching profession which in turn impacts the teaching competency of them.Effectiveness of a sound teacher largely depends upon his/her competency towards the teaching.The term competency is an imperative human characteristics or trait, which subsidizes to teaching, the problem resolving and the wholesome development of temperament.The word teaching proficiency is a combination of one or added capabilities of an educator to harvest settled learning effects.In order to acquire favourable competencies of teaching an individual would be emotionally intelligent, also should have positive attitude, pedagogical knowledge, content knowledge as well as technologically equipped.The investigator highlighted the role of NCTE as well as various NCFTE's in making teaching process effective so as to enable future teachers competent enough to meet the need of the nation's vision of 2030 for the full literacy as recommended by NEP2020.What the recent NCFTE 2021 has also envisioned producing competent educators by pre-service and in-service training in making the teaching learning process so effective that meet the forthcoming educational developmental needs of the children of digital India.