TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS OF HIGHER SECONDARY TEACHERS
Education is a nation building task and the process of education is largely lies in the hands of teacher. In the formal education system, infrastructure, finance and community support was provided by Government and stakeholders of education. But the process of molding the future citizens of India depends upon the quality of teacher. Effective teaching is a par excellence attribute of quality education. An effective teacher may be understood as one who helps in the development of basic skills, understanding, proper work habits, desirable attitude and value judgment. Teacher effectiveness concerns with these outcomes and the objectives of education. This study has the focus on the gap between the teacher effectiveness and quality education at secondary level. A sample of 300 higher secondary teachers from Vellore district has been selected for this study. Teacher Effectiveness Scale by Umme Dixit (1993).It is a five point scale and the reliability value of the tool was found as 0.89, and the validity was found to be 0.94. The data were analyzed for (i) gender (ii) type of management (iii) nature of school (iv) location of school and (v) marital status. The findings are the teacher effectiveness of higher secondary teacher's shows that there is no significant difference with respect to the gender, type of management, nature of school, location of school and marital status.