A Study of Teacher Effectiveness in Relation to Occupational Stress and Life Satisfaction among Teacher Educators
Abstract
The study examined teacher effectiveness in relation to occupational stress and life satisfaction. The sample in the study was 645 teacher educators from 96 private B.Ed. colleges affiliated to three state universities of Punjab i.e. Punjabi university, Patiala, Punjab University, Chandigarh and Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar were randomly selected by lottery method. The descriptive statistics such as mean, median, mode, S.D., skewers, kurtosis, quartile deviation and ANOVA were used to analyses the data. The results revealed (a) The teacher effectiveness was high in male teacher educators than in female teacher educators.(b) The teacher effectiveness was high in urban teacher educators than in rural teacher educators.(c)The teacher effectiveness was high in science teacher educators, average in humanities teacher educators and low in commerce teacher educators.(d) Further also the teacher effectiveness was high among teacher educators with low occupational stress and the teacher effectiveness was low among teacher educators with high occupational stress.(e) The teacher effectiveness was high among teacher educators with high life satisfaction and the teacher effectiveness was low among teacher educators with low life satisfaction. On the basis of findings, it is suggested that the college should organize life skill development programmers, seminars on emotional intelligence, mental health and well-being for teacher educators and the directions should be given to the colleges to disburse salaries to faculty members as per UGC norms. Also, the principal of college must deal psychologically while recognizing the warning signs of teacher’s stress in the college regarding work load, duties and financial status.
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Keywords: Teacher effectiveness, Occupational stress and Life satisfaction.Â
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