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Study of Teacher Effectiveness among Aided and Non-Aided College Teachers

Introduction

Education is unquestionably one of the most important factors that makes a huge impact on the growth and development of a country as well as the future course of the country’s people as a whole. Education leads to efficient usage of nation’s resources which is very crucial to nation building because without efficient usage of a nation’s resources, the progress of nation will not be possible. This is quite evident when we see the pattern of growth in the developed nations. To continue to build their nations, those countries have educated their citizens because it is a proven fact that education shapes the attitudes, behaviour and values of citizens. The quality of human resources of a nation is easily judged by the number of literate population living in it. This goes without saying that education is must if a nation aspires to achieve and sustain sublime growth and development.

Education has an immense impact on the human society. It trains the human mind to think and take the right decision. In other words, man becomes a rational being when he is educated. It is through education that knowledge and information is received and spread throughout the world. An uneducated person cannot read and write and hence is alien to all the knowledge and wisdom he can gain through books and other mediums. In other words, he is way off from the outside world. In contrast, an educated man lives in a room with all its windows open towards outside world. It would not be an exaggeration to say that existence of human beings is fruitless without education. Education makes us (human beings) capable of interpreting rightly the things perceived. Education is not about lessons and poems in textbooks. It is about the lessons of life. It wipes out all the wrong beliefs in our mind. It helps us to create a clear picture of everything around us and we no longer remain in confusion about the things we ought to learn.

An effective teacher succeeds in producing desired changes among the students through his/her teaching. He/she is satisfied with teaching as a profession and able to accomplish the prefixed goal of teaching effectively

Thus the importance of education cannot be neglected by any nation. And in today’s world, the role of education has become even more vital. It is an absolute necessity for development of any nation.

One of the most difficult problems in educational research is that of recognizing effective teachers and discriminating between the mediocre or less effective teachers. The impact of any educational programme or innovation on the pupil operates through the teachers. It is therefore, quite accurate to say that effectiveness of a school or college depends directly on the effectiveness of its teachers. So the major goal of education is to maximize teacher effectiveness.

Education is an interactive process which primarily involves the teacher and the taught. The teacher is the kingpin of the majestic process. Various Indian Commissions from time to time have emphasized on the need of bringing qualitative improvement in teacher education.

We have been hearing of some teachers who are more effective than others. Teacher effectiveness depends on what the teacher actually does in the classroom. They should not only possess the desirable qualities but also bring them into action according to the demands of different situational characteristics. This means that those teachers have attained the needed competence in their roles and functions, such as the preparation and planning of teaching, classroom management, in-depth knowledge of subject-matter and mastery in their interpersonal relations. Also these teachers excel in other personality characteristics. They are considered as best teachers. It may be perceived that the most effective and the least effective teachers could form the continuum and in between these two ends lies the category of the teachers who are moderately effective.

Teacher Effectiveness refers to the results, a teacher gets or to the amount of progress, the pupils make towards some specified goal of education. Teacher Effectiveness is the teacher’s ability to conduct his job well so that the students receive and respond in the subject matter taught by the teacher. Thus effectiveness is the function of the teacher in his classroom to deliver lessons, to enable the students to progress and achieve splendidly. The objectives of the present study were:

• To study the difference between teacher effectiveness of male teachers of aided and non-aided colleges.

• To study the difference between teacher effectiveness of female teachers of aided and non-aided colleges.

• To study the difference between teacher effectiveness of rural teachers of aided and non-aided colleges.

• To study the difference between teacher effectiveness of urban teachers of aided and non-aided colleges.

Methodology

For the present study, a sample of 100 teachers was selected randomly from aided and non-aided colleges of district Fazilka. Teacher Effectiveness Scale by Puri and Gakhar (2010) was used.

Results and Discussion

Table 1 indicates that t-ratio (1.91) is not significant at 0.01 and 0.05 level of significance. Therefore, it may be concluded that there is no significant difference between teacher effectiveness of male teachers of aided and non-aided colleges.

Conclusion

We often observe in everyday life that teachers are finding it very difficult to handle classrooms because of trying circumstances. They get irritated at slightest provocation and become vulnerable. The stress filled environment of the institute, ever growing load of expectations, personal responsibilities really create some sort of pessimism in the mind of a teacher. These things adversely affect the moral of the teacher who become a victim of these strained circumstances. We can say that in this time of circumstances, it becomes imperative for apex agencies, high authorities and policy makers to do something substantial to check this erosion in level of adjustment among teachers.

Teachers should be clear about their duties and roles, it will help to know their role boundaries and reduce their role ambiguity. The number of teaching staff can be increased in school. Stress management workshops/seminars and conferences must be organized to develop the positive attitude of the teacher.

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