Abstract
As per the Mark Van Doren’s perspective ‘the art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery’. A prospective teacher is always ready to learn more. A teacher’s professional growth does not close down when he leaves the training institute. A best teacher is always to be a best learner. The overall performance of any institute depends on its teachers teaching aptitude test. If a teacher has perfect teaching aptitude he/she may feel satisfied from his/her work profile. The present paper is a attempt to compare the teaching aptitude and job satisfaction of teachers from rural and urban areas.
Highlights
Tools Used For the proposed study the researcher used Teaching Aptitude Test Battery (TATB) that was standardized by Shamim Karim and Ashok Kumar Dixit and job satisfaction scale formulated by Meera Dixit were administered on sample subjects for the purpose of data collection
The above table explains the details about Means, Standard Deviations (S.D’s) and t-value of rural and urban teachers on eight areas of teaching aptitude namely co-operative nature, considerateness, wide interest and scholarly taste, fair mindedness and impartiality, moral character and discipline, optimistic attitude, motivational aspect and dynamic personality which has been taken into consideration for the research work on total score of Teaching Aptitude Test Battery (TATB)
On the total score of the TATB, the difference between the rural and urban teachers has been found to be significant (t-value 2.94 P > 0.01). from the conformation of the results revealed from table 2, The hypothesis which reads as, “Rural and urban teachers differ significantly on various dimension of teaching aptitude” stands has been accepted
Summary
The main objectives of the present comparative study are as follows. 1. Sajan (2010) conducted a study on teaching aptitude of student teachers and their academic achievements at graduate level He used Teaching aptitude battery (TATB) by Singh and Sharma (1998). The female student teachers are found to score significantly high on teaching aptitude compare to their male counter parts He concluded that there exists no substantial correlation between marks obtained in graduate level examination and teaching aptitude of student teachers. Tools Used For the proposed study the researcher used Teaching Aptitude Test Battery (TATB) that was standardized by Shamim Karim and Ashok Kumar Dixit and job satisfaction scale formulated by Meera Dixit were administered on sample subjects for the purpose of data collection
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