Professional Competence and Work motivation as Predictors of Teacher Effectiveness among Teacher Educators working in Government District Institute of Education and Trainings of Himachal Pradesh (India)

This study was conducted on 101 Teacher Educators working in 12 Government District Institute of Education and Trainings of Himachal Pradesh. The aim of study was to assess the effect of Professional competence and work motivation on Teacher effectiveness among Teacher Educators working in 12 Government District Institute of Education and Trainings (DIETs) of Himachal Pradesh. The results reveals that the mean/ average score of teacher effectiveness, work motivation and Professional competence were 121.25, 98.40 & 192.19 respectively and standard deviations were as 18.29, 14.01 & 20.06 respectively. There was no significant difference in teacher effectiveness and work motivation among male and female teacher educators, but female educators were significantly differed from their counterparts male teacher educators on professional competence (t=2.12, p*<.05). Results also reveals that there was a significant and positive correlation between teacher effectiveness and work motivation(r=.438, p**<.01) & teacher effectiveness and professional competence(r=.513, p**<.01). The results of multiple regression analyses indicate that work motivation was considered for the prediction of teacher effectiveness i.e. work motivation contributes to the regression explaining 19.2% variation (R² = .192, F = 23.53, p< .001), and professional competence was also considered for the prediction of teacher effectiveness i.e., professional competence contributes to the regression explaining 26.3% variation (R² = .263, F = 35.34, p< .001).