A STUDY OF ATTITUDE TOWARDS TEACHING PROFESSION IN RELATION TO JOB SATISFACTION AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

The present study is an attempt to find out the difference in teaching attitude of senior secondary school teachers in relation to job satisfaction. A descriptive survey method was used. a sample of 120 (60 male + 60 female) senior secondary school teachers was randomly selected. Teacher Attitude Scale (TAS) by Dr. J.C. Goyal and Teacher's Job Satisfaction Scale by Mudgil, Muhar and Bhatia were used to assess the teaching attitude and job satisfaction of teachers. Mean, Standard Deviation and ‘t' test was used to analyse the data. The findings of the study revealed : (i) Female teachers were found to possess more favourable attitude towards teaching than male teachers; (ii) Highly job satisfied secondary school teacher found to have better teaching attitude towards their profession than low job satisfied senior secondary school teachers; and (iii) a significant positive relationship between teaching attitude and job satisfaction of secondary school teachers was found.