STUDY ON TEACHING APTITUDE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

The present study was conducted on the teaching Aptitude of Male and Female of Govt. & Private Secondary School Teachers working in Rural and Urban areas. A sample of 350 teachers of 27 schools of Bolangir district of Odisha was selected for the study. Teaching Aptitude Test battery constructed by Smt. Samim Karim and Prof. Ashok Kumar Dixit was used to collect the data. The major findings were (1) the rural and urban secondary school teachers are almost equal in teaching Aptitude; (2) Female secondary School Teachers better in possessing the Teaching Aptitude than the male Secondary School Teachers and (3) The Private Secondary School Teachers are comparatively better in teaching aptitude than that of the Govt. Secondary School Teachers.