Spiritual intelligence and teaching competency of secondary school teachers in south Bengal

Teaching profession is becoming more challenging and needs more competent teachers to meet the demand of complex classroom situations. Teachers must keep the inner peace and self-control in adverse situation at workplace and classroom. In the complex globalized multicultural society apart from emotional and social intelligence, spiritual intelligence helps teachers to teach competently. The purpose of the present study is to know about the spiritual intelligence in relation to teaching profession. The present research aimed to study and compare the Spiritual Intelligence, Teaching Competency of Secondary School Teachers with respect to Gender and Locality and to find out the influence of spiritual intelligence on teaching competency of secondary school teachers. Two standardised scales were used for data collection. The data was analysed using t-test and ANOVA. The findings of this study revealed that, spiritual intelligence and teaching competency are gender free concept. On the other hand Spiritual intelligence and teaching competencies differs to locality. Category wise difference of teachers in Spiritual Intelligence differs in Teaching Competency. The researcher concluded that highly spiritual intelligent teachers have positive outlook and may work effectively in limitations which enables them competent enough in their teaching profession.