PERSONALITY AND TEACHING COMPETENCY OF B.ED.STUDENT TEACHERS

Education plays a key role in the development of a nation. World over it has been realized that no country can progress without the qualitative development of its human capital. Education plays a key role in the development of human resources. Education is one of the factors affecting the physical and growth of an individual. Today education is seen as a series of teaching, thinking, learning experiences behavior in a specified desired manner. Educational objectives are no longer limited to the three R's - Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. The educational structure of any country starts with primary education is to be laid at this stage and the teachers at the primary level have pivotal role to play. From the philosopher to the laymen, everyone eulogies the teacher as the mason who builds the fabric of society the students being the bricks and mortar of the future. From the earliest times teachers have had a hazardous and onerous task to perform - to mold the body, mind and soul.