%0 Journal Article %T RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHING COMPETENCE AND TECHER SELF EFFICACY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS %A HASEEN TAJ %A MASOODA JAMAL %J Golden Research Thoughts %D 2013 %I Laxmi Book Publication %R 10.9780/22315063 %X The present investigation was undertaken to study the Teaching Competence of secondary school Teachers in relation to self efficacy of secondary school teachers. Sex, type of family, qualification, locality of the school and type and size of school were considered as background variables to study their effect on the teaching competence of secondary school teachers. The researcher had selected 425 Teachers in government, aided and private secondary schools giving representation to sex, type of school management. Teaching Competence Scale, based on the 'Core Teaching Skills' Published by NCERT, developed Mary Noya Leena( 2010) and the Self Efficay Scale developed by Mrs. Masooda Jamal and Dr. Haseen Taj were used as tools. In order to visualize the nature of the score of distribution of the data collected, numerical determinants like Mean, SD were worked out, Pearson's product moment correlation was applied to find out the relationship between Teaching Competence and Teacher Self Efficacy of secondary school Teachers and 't' test was applied to find out the significant difference between different variables. The study found that there is a positive significant relationship between Teaching Competence of secondary school Teachers and the Self Efficacy of secondary school Teachers (and also the study found that there is a significant difference in the Teaching Competence of males and female Teachers of secondary schools; it is further revealed that type of family was found to have a significant effect on the teaching competence of the secondary school teachers whereas the locality of the school and the qualification of the teachers did not found to have any effect on the teaching competence of secondary school teachers.) %K Relationship %K Efficacy %K Teaching Competence %K NCERT. %U http://www.aygrt.isrj.net/UploadedData/2370.pdf