Personality And Teaching Competency Of B Ed Student Teachers

1.1 Introduction: Brain is the best gift of God to humanity. It makes him supreme among all other creatures of earth. A child’s brain although a natural gift, needs to be shaped and well directed for living an agreeable, calm and contingent life. The practice which carries out this reward is what we mark as education. Education trends and carves him for humanity. There are usually two characteristics of human life: one is natural or biological and the other one is socio- cultural or spiritual. Man envisaged in terms of his biological subsistence alone is no better than an animal. His biological subsistence is secured through food, shelter and reproduction. But human life can never be limited to its biological existence alone. Man’s life can only be overvalued by education and it is only the cultural or social feature of human life which specifies his ultimate place and thus composes the splendid work of Almighty creator.

Study conducted at Lucknow District of Uttar Pradesh, India.

The present book was designed to find out whether there were any differences in the personality factors, attitudes and emotional intelligence of teachers at secondary level in District Srinagar, J&K. The sample for the investigation consisted of 600 secondary school teachers, out of which 300 were males and 300 were females (150 each in rural and urban dichotomy). The data was collected with the help of R.B Cattell’s 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire, S.P Ahluwalia’s Teacher Attitude Inventory and Shubra Mangal’s Teacher Emotional Intelligence Inventory. This book is believed to help teachers, research scholars, programme planners, policy makers and administrators of the concerned field.

The book has been written to be used as a research reference or as a referral text in an introduction to courses in teacher training in special education and for the research studies in special education and pre-service teacher preparation. It is appropriate for pre-service teacher trainees as well as the trainers in the field of special education.