Attitude Of Student Teachers Towards Teaching Profession

Year 2014, Volume: 15 Issue: 3, 27 - 36, 01.09.2014

Anupama Bhargava Mk Pathy

https://doi.org/10.17718/tojde.15072

Cited By: 18

Abstract

Teaching being a dynamic activity requires a favourable attitude and certain specific competencies from its practitioners. Teachers’ proficiency depends on the attitude she possesses for the profession. The positive attitude helps teacher to develop a conductive learner friendly environment in the classroom. This also casts a fruitful effect on learning of the students. Attitude being a social construct is influenced by many factors like gender social strata ,age, stream of education and previous experience of the job .what bearing the gender and stream of education has on the attitude of student teachers towards teaching profession to throw light on this a study was conducted using a readymade tool. Study of different categories like Non-tribal male and female science stream, nontribal male and female social science stream, Tribal male and female science stream, Tribal male and female social science stream was undertaken. In a sample of hundred students ninety six students responded. The mean scores were considered and ‘ t’ value was calculated to find the difference in the attitude of different categories towards teaching profession.

Keywords

Attitude, Behaviour, Teaching Proficiency, Student Teachers.

Asst. Professor Anupama BHARGAVA

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