ASSESSMENT OF TEACHING APTITUDE OF STUDENT TEACHERS IN MANIPUR

Abstract [English]

In the field of education, teachers enhance the student knowledge and life skills to adjust him in society and environment. For the development of critical and logical thinking, teachers should be able to identify and analyse the problems of students. A positive teaching aptitude of teachers helps in changing behaviour of students and conduct different life lesson in a systematic way. Population of the study comprises of 100 student teachers, with 50 each from government and private institutes, selected through simple random sampling. A personal demographic scheduled and standardised questionnaire, the Teaching Aptitude Test (TAT-GR, 2010) developed by S. C. Gakhar and Rajnis was used to measure the teaching aptitude of the student teachers. The scale is found to be reliable at 0.62 (Cronbach alpha). The present study employed descriptive and inferential statistics for data analysis and interpretation. The study focuses on to find out the teaching aptitude level of student teachers. To study whether there exists significant difference with reference to gender, management of institute, rural and urban, marital status and pedagogy variation. The study found that the teaching aptitude of most student teachers has a decent level, which means they are well prepared and positive about the teaching profession. Among all the objectives studied, gender was the only one that made found significant difference; female student teachers demonstrated a little higher teaching aptitude than their male counterpart