Attitudes of Prospective Teachers towards Teaching Profession

Abstract

The progress of a country depends upon the quality of its teachers. They are called nation builders.A good principal, magnificent building, sound infrastructure and good curriculum are useless, if the teachers in any institution are not with positive attitude towards teaching. Teaching is a very respectable profession but even then not all the teachers who are in this pious profession like it.Many prospective teachers join this profession not by choice but by chance or due to other reasons. They are disinterested towards teaching profession. They just take admission in B.Ed course as second choice,if they fail to seek admission in first choice like M.B.A., or any other courses according to their liking and they are generally dissatisfied throughout the training period.This study was conducted to study the attitudes of prospective-teachers towards teaching profession. A sample of 180 prospective teachers, 90 from private and 90 from publicinstitutions was taken through purposive convenient sampling method. “Teacher Attitude Inventory (TAI)” by Dr. S.P. Ahluwalia was used to collect the data. Mean, SD and t-test were used for the analysis of the data. Research findings revealed that there is a significant difference in the attitudes of prospective teachers studying in private and public B.Ed institutions. There is no significant difference in the attitudes of female and male, Muslim and Non-Muslim, science and social sciences prospective teachers towards teaching profession.

Keywords:Attitude, Prospective Teachers, Teaching Profession, Privateand Public Institutions.