Professional Competencies listed by NCTE (Professional Traits)

Teaching Competency

    Teaching competencies include the acquisition and demonstration of the composite skills required for student teaching like introducing a lesson, fluency in questioning, probing questions, explaining, pace of lesson, reinforcement, understanding child psychology, recognizing behavior, classroom management etc.

Teaching competency means an effective performance of all observable teacher behavior that brings about desired pupil outcomes.  ~B.K.Passi & M.S.Lalitha~

The essential teacher capabilities and competencies listed by NCTE

(Professional elements/traits)

Personal :

• Physically fit and healthy

• Active and Energetic

• Mentally alert and Emotionally stable

• Morally Correct

• Aware of Self

• Socially warm and friendly

• Intellectually honest and a passion for teaching

• Charismatic personality with values and ethics

Professional :

• Subject specialist with thorough in-depth and up to date knowledge about the content.

• Mastery in appropriate teaching skills.

• Ability to try out innovative methods of teaching-learning processes

Social :

• Possess interpersonal and interactive skills

• Be a leader

• Efficacy in achieving the goals of the institution and society

• Be open to criticism

• Works in collaboration and co-ordination

• Easily develops good rapport and friendly environment

• A man of patriotic spirit and national integrity

                  The above mentioned personal, professional and social competencies are briefly described under the subheadings as follows

• Contextual competencies include not only educational but social and cultural systems also. It includes dealing with problems of wastage and stagnation, diversities in society, developing cohesive society and issues like urbanization and value inculcation

• Conceptual competencies include knowledge about stages of child development, right perspective toward education and implications of education

• Content competencies include joyful activities, media intervention, individual learning and provision of enriched environment for learning

• Transactional competencies include planning of action and evaluation, inclusion of activities like story-telling, singing etc. in teaching process

• Competencies related to other educational activity include human values, celebration of national events and community life activities

• Competencies to develop teaching learning material include innovative ways to teaching and local visits to banks and other community resources

• Evaluation competencies include positivistic evaluation process, importance of feedback etc.

• Management competencies include skills of classroom management and role and responsibilities of teacher

• Competencies related to working with parents include role of parents and requirement of their cooperation in teaching learning process

• Competencies related to working with community and other agencies include the knowledge about importance of community in the holistic development of students