PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS TEACHING AND THEIR LEVEL OF ASPIRATION

The research paper examines "Primary School Teachers' Attitude towards teaching and their Level of Aspiration" by sampling 100 teachers from 25 schools in the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh. Effect of three independent variables namely gender (male/ female), qualification (under graduated / graduated) and income groups (high income / low income ) were studied. The study aimed to understand the correlation between teachers' attitude towards teaching and their level of aspiration. The findings indicated a positive correlation between higher levels of aspiration have a more favourable attitude towards teaching. Interestingly, there was no significant difference between male and female primary school teachers' attitudes, although male teachers displayed a slightly more favorable attitude towards teaching. The undergraduate teachers with a high income had a more favourable attitude towards teaching than the graduate Primary School teachers. As far as level of Aspiration is concerned among males and females, there are female teachers; undergraduates over graduates with high income possess high level of aspirations than teachers with same qualification and low-income group.