Attitude Of Women Teachers Towards Quality Improvement In Teaching At Secondary Level

Abstract

Teaching is said to be a nation building activity and the teacher is the architect of the future. He/she is the pivot around which all the educational programs such as curriculum, syllabus, textbooks, evaluation etc., revolve. The best system of education may fail to achieve the desired goals in the absence of sincere, competent and professionally talented teachers. The teacher has the rare privilege of shaping the most precious material of the land –the boys and the girls during their crucial period of development. It is the need of the hour to provide quality education to the students at different levels in general and at secondary level in particular. This is possible only when the teachers, particularly women who have passion for teaching, possess favourable positive attitude towards teaching profession and determination to provide quality education to the students. The present study is an attempt to explore the attitude of women teachers towards the measures to be taken to improve quality in teaching at secondary level. The researchers used a well prepared and standardized questionnaire as the tool for collection of data from a sample of 200 women teachers selected from 40 secondary schools located in the rural as well as urban areas of Visakhapatnam District in Andhra Pradesh using Stratified Random Sampling technique. The data were analyzed using Mean score values, standard deviations and t-tests. The findings of the study revealed that the demographic variables – Age, Teaching Experience and location of the school have no influence on the attitude of teachers towards quality improvement in teaching at secondary level. The study suggests that the women teachers working in secondary schools should possess a positive favorable attitude towards teaching profession with a view to provide quality education to the children at secondary level during the crucial period of their growth and development.