Predictor Variables of Life Skills and Teaching Competencies of Prospective Students in College of Education

K.Gopinath; Prof.P.Sivakumar

Volume : VII, Issue : XII, December - 2018

Predictor Variables of Life Skills and Teaching Competencies of Prospective Students in College of Education

K. Gopinath, Prof. P. Sivakumar

Abstract :

Life skills the essential skills developed through a higher order thinking, that enable a person to perform effectively in the teaching profession, and thus become a socially acceptable and competent teaching skills with varied variables. The main objectives of the study to assess life skills and teaching competencies of prospective students in college of education and to find out the significant difference if any on life skills and teaching competencies of prospective students in college of education in relation with certain demographic variables. Descriptive Survey Method was used for data collection in this study. The investigator has chosen 100 B. Ed trainees from College of Education in Madurai District of Tamil Nadu under Purposive Sampling involved in the assessing predictor variables of life skills and teaching competencies of prospective students in college of education. The major findings in life skills, 70.40%, 71.73% and 81.42% of trainees are agreed to have good self awareness, innovative and problems solving skills; 68.30%, 73.17%, 63.82% and 63.75% of trainees are undecided about their creative thinking, decision making and leadership; 68.13%, 59.53% and 53.45% are disagreed about their critical thinking, empathy and communication. In teaching competencies, 72.45%, 70.26%, 75.32%, 70.35% and 73.53% of trainees agreed to have good contextual, content related, transactional, educational activities and management. The predictor variables such as gender, age, marital status, subject, community, living locality and family head annual income have been taken for the study. R² values are also computed for the predictor variables of life skills and teaching competencies.