The following is a list of some basic teaching competencies identified through various researches on teaching. Which among of them fall in the domain of behavioural competencies? (A) Self-efficacy (B) Planning (C) Locus of control (D) Communicating (E) Flexibility Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

The following is a list of some basic teaching competencies identified through various researches on teaching. Which among of them fall in the domain of behavioural competencies? (A) Self-efficacy (B) Planning (C) Locus of control (D) Communicating (E) Flexibility Choose the correct answer from the options given below : Correct Answer (B) and (D)

The correct answer is (B) and (D)

Behavioral competencies are also known as soft skills or general competencies.

Important Points

The teacher's behavior to make the teaching-learning process effective is known as the behavioral competency of a teacher. Some of the behavioral competencies of a teacher are as follows,

  •  Planning
    • it ensures students' time in the classroom is worthwhile. As their teacher, he/she ties all activities to specific learning objectives and connects daily lessons to all long-term units.
  • Communication competency
    • it states that an individual should be able to “articulate thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively in written and oral forms to persons inside and outside of the organization.
  • Interacting Well with Students
  • Problem Solving/Judgment
  • Productivity
  • Being Responsibility

Additional Information

  •  Teachers' self-efficacy,
    • namely teachers' beliefs in their ability to effectively handle the tasks, obligations, and challenges related to their professional activity
  • Locus of control
    • A locus of control orientation is a belief about whether the outcomes of our actions are contingent on what we do (internal control orientation) or on events outside our personal control (external control orientation)
  • Flexibility
    • Effective teachers are great at being flexible, which means that they can balance several responsibilities at once and still make students smile and feel appreciated.

Hence we conclude that Self efficacy, locus of control and flexibility are not under the Behavioral competencies but these are included in the personality competencies. 

Therefore the correct answer  is (B) and (D)

 

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Eight north Indian Ocean countries, namely, Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand, were asked to contribute names so that a combined list could be compiled. Each country gave eight names and a combined list of 64 names was prepared. This list is currently in use, and all cyclones arising in the north Indian Ocean are named from this list, with one name from each country being used in turn. Almost 38 or 39 names from the list have been used up, but since many cyclones dissipate long before they hit land, their names rarely figure in the papers or other media. The names that people do know about, and remember are, naturally, those that were most destructive ones, or very recent. Aila, in 2009 is remembered with a shudder for the enormous destruction it caused in West Bengal and Bangladesh; Phaillin, also for the damage it caused when it hit the Odisha coast in 2013. Two harmless cyclones, which also might remain in peoples memory, are the more recent ones of 2014 — Hudhud, which threatened the east coast of India and Nilofar, which was expected to, but did not, devastate the western coast. The names in the cyclone list are usually words one associates with storms; words which mean water or wind or lightning in various national languages. Sometimes they are names of other things — birds or flowers or precious stones. The name Aila, contributed by the Maldives means fire, the name Phaillin from Thailand means sapphire, the name Hudhud from Oman is the name of a bird, probably the hoopoe, and the name Nilofar, given by Pakistan, is the Urdu name of the lotus or water lily. The eight names suggested by India, and which are in the list of 64, are Agni, Akaash, Bijli, Jal, Leher, Megh, Sagar and Vayu, meaning in that order, fire, sky, lightning, water, wave, cloud, sea and wind. Five of these names (that is, up to Leher) have been used so far.
Which country did not contribute to the list of the cyclone names?