A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE WORK-VALUES OF PROSPECTIVE AND IN-SERVICE TEACHERS

Due to fast expansion of educational facilities at all levels of education, the teacher is expected to understand his/her role in all its dimensions and play it effectively in order to meet the institutional demands. They have to welcome and accept new thoughts and trends entering in the domain of the educational institution. Generally, the teacher performs three functions, viz., impart instruction, provide examples and put impression on the pupils. A teacher has to present a model performance to watch and imitate so that students take an active part in learning. Besides teaching, the teacher performs much work in the institutions. His work may be a task, a duty, or an accomplishment. It may be a mental, physical or both. The work has not only an economic and mechanical aspects but it also has a psychological aspect. The teachers' job related behaviour plays a significant role in shaping his work-values. In this reference, the present study will serve in motivating the teachers in analyzing their work environment and in identifying their work-values having positive or negative effect on their working conditions including their task of teaching and other jobs. The study has certainly unfolded the picture of work-value of the teachers prevailing among themselves. The findings of the present study may create awareness among teachers towards their work-value. This may also motivate them to pay their attention in caring and nurturing of those work values of the teachers to those workvalues which positively affect on the work-environment in the schools.