A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHER ATTITUDE AND TEACHING APTITUDE OF PROSPECTIVE SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

Abstract

The main purpose of the research was to study the relationship between Teacher attitude and Teaching aptitude of prospective secondary school teachers as they are the future teachers and many at times become the role models for their students. The researcher took 650 prospective secondary school teachers from 10 colleges of education under Nagarjuna university. Teacher attitude inventory by Dr. S.P. Ahluwalia and Teaching aptitude test developed by S.C Gakhar and Dr. Rajnish were used to measure the Teacher attitude and Teaching aptitude of the prospective teachers. The analysis and interpretation of the data was done by calculating the co-efficient of correlation. The major findings of the study were: 1) The Teacher attitude and Teaching aptitude have significant positive correlation 2) Academic qualifications do not have any significant influence on the relationship between Teacher attitude and Teaching aptitude of prospective secondary school teachers. 3) Methodology opted does not have any significant influence on the relationship between Teacher attitude and Teaching aptitude of the prospective secondary school teachers.