Competencies Of Commerce Teacher Trainees

Abstract

This is an attempt to investigate the teaching competencies of commerce teacher trainees. The main objectives of the study is find out whether there is any significant difference in the teaching competencies of commerce teacher trainees in respect of their gender, age, and medium studied. Sample of 200 B.Ed. trainees were selected by using purposive sampling technique. It is found that teacher trainees have low teaching competencies. It is revealed that there is significant difference in mean teaching competency scores of male and female, English and Malayalam medium teacher trainees. This study also revealed that there is no significant difference in mean teaching competency scores of trainees who are less than 22 years of age and above 22 years of the age group.