Effective teaching competencies - a compilation of changing expectations from students and institutions.

Abstract

The relationship between a student and a teacher has adapted a new meaning in this digitally controlled world today. The role of a teacher has also grown from a knowledge transmitter to a friend leading to a new series of expectation from students.  The paradigms for evaluation of a teacher have also been modified by the institutions and there is now a focus on competency based evaluation of teachers. The teachers need to continually develop their competencies to match up-to the expectation of students as well as the institutions. The current paper attempts to analyse the key competencies of a teacher as viewed by the students and by the institution. The opinion from the students was sought and the statistical technique of factor analysis was applied to segregate the various competencies listed. Further the list was enriched by adding the competencies from the institutional perspective. The competency set has been derived from analyzing the students’ opinion as well as by integrating the key competencies that institutions look for while measuring the key performance measures.