Vol. 2, Issue 2, Part B (2016)

Abstract
The role of teacher is multi-faceted, comprising academic, pedagogical and social roles. Academic roles cover teaching, counseling and supervisory roles and pedagogical roles include instructional, evaluation and facilitating roles. These qualities are also part of teaching competency of teacher. To study the teaching competency, 447 secondary school teachers of eastern U.P is randomly selected. General Teaching Competency Scale is a classroom observation schedule which has been constructed by Passi & Lalitha. To analyze and interpret the data mean, S.D. and t- test were used between the different demographic variables. There is interesting result drawn from this study that govt. teachers are dominating private teachers at secondary level on the basis of their teaching competency. It is also found that qualification does not affect the teaching competency of secondary school teacher. The science stream teachers are competent than art stream teachers.