www.ijcrt.org © 2020 IJCRT | Volume 8, Issue 12 December 2020 | ISSN: 2320-2882 IJCRT2012132 International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT) www.ijcrt.org 1126 A STUDY OF TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN RELATION TO THEIR GENDER, LOCALE, EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE *Kashmir Singh & **Dr. Ajay Kumar Attri, *Ph.D. Research Scholar, H.P.University, Shimla-5; **Professor ICDEOL H.P.University, Shimla-5 ABSTRACT Teachers are the strengths of any country. They are charged with the greatest responsibility for “Nation Building”. The teacher plays an essential role in increasing the efficiency of the school. An effective teacher is one who has a repertoire of various organizational strategies and teaching techniques. In the present investigation an attempt has been made to study teacher effectiveness among secondary school teachers in relation to their gender and stream. The survey method of the research has been utilized as a part of this research study. To collect the data, Teacher Effectiveness Scale (TES) developed and standardized by Puri and Gakkhar (2010) was used. For this study, a sample of 400 secondary school teachers was selected by using systematic random sampling technique from the two districts Chamba and Solan of Himachal Pradesh. The information collected was broken down by using mean, standard deviation and ‘t’ test. KEY TERMS Teacher Effectiveness, Secondary School Teachers, Gender, Locale, Educational Qualification and Teaching Experience. Introduction Teacher has a pivotal role in the educational system. The quality of teachers to a large extent depends upon the quality of teaching. At the root of teacher lies the learning, unless a teacher is not willing to learn. Teachers use a range of teaching strategies to effectively meet the needs and solve problems of individual learners. A school may have excellent material resources, equipments, building, library and other facilities along with a curricular appropriately adopted to suit the community need but if teacher are not effective and efficient and they are misfit, unsatisfied and indifferent to their responsibilities the whole programme is likely to be ineffective and wasted. For teaching the students effectively the teachers have to be effective.