A study of Secondary school Teacher's Teacher Effectiveness and Emotional Intelligence

Education being the crux of National development, the curriculum has to be revised and revamped to suit the needs of the society. Presently, the National Education Policy 2020 is striving on the revision of all aspects of the education. The policy regards Education; in every sense is one of the fundamental factors of development as it raises people’s productivity and creativity. The National Education Policy 2020 puts teachers at the centre of the fundamental reforms in the Education system. Its main objective is to encourage, train and support the teachers with continuous professional development. The policy emphasises on the teacher effectiveness and also personal attributes like empathy, altruism, passion towards profession and service mind on the part of the teachers. Thus the present study aims to find out the teacher Effectiveness and Emotional Intelligence of Secondary school teachers.120 Secondary school teachers have been selected using Random sampling method from Mandya city, Karnataka State. The major findings of the study revealed that there was no significant difference between the teacher Effectiveness of Male and Female secondary school teachers. No significant difference was found between the Emotional Intelligence of male and female secondary school teachers and a positive co-relation was found between Teacher Effectiveness and Emotional Intelligence of secondary school teachers