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Unit 2: Affective Teacher Education and Competency Based Teacher Education

The worth and potentialities of a country get evaluated in and through the work of the teacher, "The Notes
people of a country are the enlarged replica of their teacher." They are the real nation builders.
Teaching affectiveness is the main aspect of teacher effectiveness which is related to the process-
criterion. It includes class-performance of teacher which can be observed and measured objectively
Teaching affectiveness is the major area of pedagogy. An affective teacher requires to have
knowledge, practice and beliefs aspects of pedagogy.
The role of the teacher is best explained by the following prominent thinkers of education.
1. Manu: "A teacher is the image of Brahma"
2. Indian Prayer: "The teacher is Brahma, the creator, he is god Vishnu, he is god Maheshwar. He
is the entire Universe, salutations to him."
3. Swami Vivekananda: "The true teacher is he who can immediately come down to the level of
the student, transfer his soul to the student's soul and see through and understand through his
mind. Such a teacher can really teach and none else."
Definition of Teaching Effectiveness: "Teaching effectiveness is as an act of faith of teacher as well
as a students." Teaching is the system of actions and activities to induce learning through interpersonal
relationship." The teaching actions and activities generate social emotional climate for providing
new experiences and insight to the students. The conductiveness of learning climate depends on the
faith of students and teacher. The students learning outcomes depends on the faith students in
teaching as well as teacher. Thus, teaching effectiveness varies students to students and teacher to
teacher. It is also related to professional ethics.
Definition of Teaching Effectiveness as an "Act of Faith": The most accepted criterion for measuring
good teaching is the amount of student learning that occurs. There is consistently high correlation
between students' ratings of the "amount learned" in the course and their overall ratings of the
teacher and the course. Those who learned more gave their teachers higher.

The teacher is the yardstick that measures the achievements and aspirations of the nation.

Self Assessment

1. Fill in the blanks
(i) ...................... is the major area of pedagogy.
(ii) ......................., focuses on student's acquisition of specific competency which are composite
skills, behaviours or knowledge.
(iii) The ......................... can be developed on the basis of a theoretical analysis of teaching
behaviour taking into account, the objectives of teacher education.
(iv) The most important characteristics for an effective-teacher is that he must have .....................
and full understanding of his subject.

2.1.1 Characteristics of Teacher
Whereas the traditional teacher education programme did not have to demonstrate the effectiveness
of the graduates as teachers, the Competency Based Teacher Training (CBTT) programme have
accountability as their hallmark, and as such, lay more emphasis on demonstration/application
rather that one mere acquisition of knowledge. One assumption of competency based education is
that "given enough time and instruction, most students can acquire mastery of skills." A teaching
performances, therefore, is a "complex of knowledge and teaching skills, extended over time,
involving many specific items of knowledge and usually involving several specific skills.
Competency based education focuses on student's acquisition of specific competency which are
composite skills, behaviours or knowledge that can be demonstrated by the learner and are derived
from explicit conceptualization of the desired outcomes of learning. Personal characteristics of

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