Volume : 2, Issue : 12, DEC 2016

TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS OF TRAINED GRADUATE TEACHERS IN RELATION TO THEIR LEVEL OF JOB SATISFACTION AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS TEACHING PROFESSION AND ITS ALLIED ASPECTS

Dr. RAJVIR SINGH

Abstract

Nations across the world are making painstaking efforts for equipping their children with all such necessary skills, capabilities and potentials that are required for countering all sort of challenges and excel in fierce competition that this global world is going to pose in front of them at every stage in all spheres of life. For this, as well as for ensuring the all round development of children, it was acknowledged by almost all across the globe that „quality education? is to be provided compulsorily to all children at least during the early years of his development. This compulsory quality elementary education to children can only be imparted through effective teachers. It is universally accepted that there is no substitute to an effective teacher as the progress and success of any educational programme totally depends on the effectiveness of the teachers available to implement it. Identification of effective teachers is a major concern in present educational scenario. Many studies were conducted across the world in order to explore and list those factors and methods that may prove fruitful in enhancing effectiveness of teachers. Two such prominent factors that were reported as vital and most instrumental are „job satisfaction? of teachers and their „attitude towards teaching profession and its allied aspects?. Due to intervention of science as well as information and communication technologies in all spheres of human life and endeavours, tremendous change in social context, learner?s context, system of teaching-learning has taken place during the preceding decade. These changes multiplied the demand and expectations of society from the teacher and have put heavier responsibilities on his shoulder and demand that he must be more versatile, skilled, sincere, dedicated, responsible, accountable, energetic, and proficient or in total more effective in the present scenario. Further, in India, with the mushrooming of self-financing teacher education institutions across the country, the quality in teacher education has declined. Moreover the changing complexities at workplace posing new challenges and unending expectations in front of teachers that influence their level of satisfaction in profession and also their attitude towards teaching profession and its allied aspects and that in turn are influencing their effectiveness. In the present study the researcher, by drawing a true representative sample tried to explore that whether the regular trained graduate teachers (appointed on permanent basis) teaching at high school level in government schools situated in rural areas of District Kurukshetra and residing in rural area possessed adequate level of teacher effectiveness and job satisfaction, or not; and also whether they were having positive favourable attitude towards teaching profession and its allied aspects, or not. Researcher also studied that does there exist any relationship between teacher effectiveness of these regular trained graduate teachers of District Kurukshetra with their job satisfaction and attitude towards teaching profession and its allied aspects, or not.

Keywords

Teacher Effectiveness, Job Satisfaction, Attitude Towards Teaching Profession And Its Allied Aspects, Accountability, Redress Of Grievances, Competitive Global World, Mushrooming Of Self-Financing Teacher Education Institutions (Teis)

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