Perception Of Teacher Educators Towards Teaching Efficacy

Abstract

Teaching efficacy is an ability of effective teaching and students’ good learning outcomes. It helps to effectively managing time and teaching resources of teacher educators. The aim of this study is to ascertain the level and significant differences in perception of teacher educators towards teaching efficacy. This study conducted by descriptive survey method, this method has been applied for data collection from 300 teacher educators based on the stratified random sampling technique in some colleges of education at Namakkal and Salem districts of Tamilnadu. The findings of the study are revealed that the perception of teacher educators have high level of teaching efficacy. Further the categorical variables such as gender and stream of subject wise analyses indicated that there is a significant difference in perception of teacher educators towards teaching efficacy. Also the remaining categorical variables such as locality of teacher educators’ age and devices used for teaching wise analyses noticed that there is no significant difference in perception on teaching efficacy among teacher educators. The suggestions of the study are the teaching efficacy helps to rectify the teacher educator’s teaching burdens. It also assists to increase the student’s academic outcomes and strengthening the teaching and learning activities among teacher educators and learners. The recommendations of the study are the teacher educators should be applied the innovative technology devices in their classroom teaching and online teaching. The educational institutions must provide the innovative and AI educational tools for access and assess the teacher’s teaching skills and student’s assignment.