Resilience Of Trainee Teachers – A Study

Abstract

A review of related studies has shown that substantial research has not been done on trainee teachers in Tamil Nadu on trainee teachers doing their B.Ed. Programme. This study investigates the level of resilience and aims to determine whether there exists any significant difference regarding selected demographics among the trainee teachers. A sample of 1200 B.Ed. students from 14 colleges of education from three districts were selected as samples. The academic Resilience Scale (ARS-30), developed and standardized by Simon Cassidy (2016), was used for collecting data. The SPSS package was used for statistical analysis. The study's descriptive results show that most of the trainee teachers doing B.Ed. are at moderate levels. There is a significant difference between male and female trainee teachers, first-year and second-year trainee teachers, trainee teachers who studied Tamil-medium and English- medium trainee teachers at school, and trainee teachers who study in rural   and urban colleges of education.