ATTITUDE OF STUDENT TEACHERS TOWARDS TEACHING PROFESSION

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.