Techno-pedagogical Skills of Prospective Teacher Educators

Abstract

In teacher education, Techno-pedagogical skills involves the development of knowledge and skills for using general computer applications, learning specific software programs and internet tools confidently and competently. Directly or indirectly teacher education programme will benefit from techno pedagogical skills. Technological pedagogical content knowledge extends beyond proficiency with technology for personal use to an understanding of how technology can be integrated with subject matter and the technology itself. Therefore, the teachers of the present generation should not only have content and pedagogy knowledge, they also should be well versed in technology and to transact knowledge to the students of the current digital society. In the present study the investigator is intended to study the Techno-pedagogical skills of Prospective Teacher Educators. The investigator used purposive random sampling technique for selecting the sample. The sample of the study is Prospective Teacher Educators studying in the M. Ed. colleges affiliated to Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University, Chennai, Tamil Nādu. The percentage analysis shows that the Level ofT echno-Pedagogical skills of Prospective Teacher Educators is average. The ‘t’ test results reveal that there is no significant difference in the Techno-Pedagogical skills of the Male and Female Prospective Teacher Educators, but the female Prospective Teacher Educators are slightly better than the male Prospective Teacher Educators. It is also found out there is no significant difference in the Techno-Pedagogical skills of the Under-graduate and Post-graduate Prospective Teacher Educators. Further, it is therefore concluded that the Under-graduate Prospective Teacher Educators are slightly better than the Post-graduate Prospective Teacher Educator sintheir Techno-Pedagogical skills. Therefore, it is imperative that teachers should be competent enough to use ICT effectively in the classroom situation. Digital technology helps a teacher for being an effective technology user, a lifelong learner in advanced ways, make effective technological pedagogical content knowledge as well as an effective mentor and facilitator.