Ict Based Teaching Competency Of Teacher Educators At B.Ed. College Of Jharkhand State
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Teacher education today is an integral part of any educational system. ICT has taken a key role in this system of the present knowledge society. Now ICT has become important part of Indian school curriculum as well as teacher education. The importance of ICT in empowering teachers and learners, and enhancing teaching and students’ achievement has been highlighted in several studies. This study assessed Teaching competency of teacher educators of Jharkhand towards ICT. To achieve the goal of the study, the researcher has used a standardized tool on Study teaching competency developed by B.K. Passi and M.S. Lalita. A survey was conducted on 100 samples selected from 20 teacher education colleges in Jharkhand, through simple random sampling technique. The results Show that most of the teacher educators are competent towards ICT. It was found that there was no significant difference between government urban and private urban college teacher educator on their level of ICT-based teaching competency, and it was also found that there was no significant difference between government rural and private rural college pupil teachers on their level of ICT-based study habits teacher educator on their level of ICT-based teaching competency.
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