A Study of Professionalism of Secondary School Teachers
A professional teacher needs to be confident without being arrogant. Nobody can expect to have all the answers, so if a student asks a weird doubt, the professional teacher should be able to admit defeat but offer to find out more for the student and they must carry that promise out. Proper preparation is another crucial requirement of professionalism. When the teacher enters the classroom s/he should have all the required materials and the lesson plan ready.  The researcher has pursued a study on such professionalism of teachers, as to how a teacher is aware towards his / her professional ethics, and how such awareness can bring results in the rewards and achievements of students. The study was conducted on 1044 teachers of secondary schools in Saurashtra Region Comprising of 11 districts of Gujarat. The study was conducted using a self-constructed scale “Secondary School Teachers Professionalism Scale”. The variables under study were Nature of Job, Qualification, Professional Qualification, Family Background, and Education Board. The method of research was descriptive survey research. The tool comprised of ten components viz. Time Keeping, Content Mastery, Contemporary Knowledge, Communication with Students, Communication with Colleagues, Delivery Mechanism, Pro-Activeness and Follow up, Parents Counseling and Students Counseling. The findings of research are, Nature of Job as a variable affect the Contemporary Knowledge and Physical Appearance of the Teachers. The Qualification of Teachers affected the Time Keeping, Contemporary Knowledge, Communication with Students, Communication with Colleagues, Pro Activeness and Followup, Parents Counseling and Students Counseling. The Professional Qualification affected the Students Counseling of Teachers. The Family Background affected the Parents Counseling of Teachers. The Education Board affected the Time Keeping, Content Mastery, Contemporary Knowledge, Delivery Mechanism, Parents Counseling and Students Counseling. Schools and Educational institutes can use the tool to measure the professionalism of teachers and can device training programmes to enhance professionalism for relevant components. The findings highlights key components where Other Board teachers are score better in professionalism and the same can used to device training programme for Gujarat Board teachers to improve for such key components. Over all, the research will help the teacher in general to measure the professionalism of self and motivate development of professionalism.
A Study of Professionalism of Higher Secondary Teachers
Professionalism can be defined as under: "Professionalism is believing passionately in what you do, never compromising your standards and value and caring about your clients, your people and your own career." This study was aimed to study the attitude towards Professionalism of college Teachers and to compare it by the different variables. The present study was an quantitative type of research. And survey method was used to collect the related data. A representative sample of 202 teachers working in different schools of Rajkot city. A Likert type five point attitude scale "know your professional Index" developed by Ambasana was used to measure attitude towards professionalism. It contains 20 statements. The data was analyzed according to the levels of subgroups dependent variables, professional index was analyzed utilizing t-test and ANOVA. Results indicated a clear effect of experience as it was observed that the professionalism of the teachers having five and more than five years experience and the teachers having less than five years experience was observed. The teacher working for five and more than five years had higher attitude towards professionalism than teachers who had experience less than five years. It was also observed that the type of school had somewhat effect upon teacher's attitude towards professionalism. 1.0 INTRODUCTION In the present age of Information and Technology, realising educational objectives. We require intergating modern forms of technology in education. One of the major challenges for the higher education sector in Indian and especially in Gujarat is the problem of innovation. There is a need to keep its curriculum, course, content and pedagogy updated with the changing educational needs of the students, technolological innovations and socio- economic changes. For these purposes, we have government, grant-in-aid and self financed institutes of educational field. Due to such privatization and commercialism, the theme of professionalism has been risen. Another thing is that like other professional like doctor, lawyer, journalist, chartered accountant, chief executive officer (C.E.O.) of any corporate culture, in education too, we have professionalism. At present education is not a mission but a service industry. So the theme of professionalism has been risen in education
The evaluation of the competency perception of inspectors in using new instructional technology
Abstract The purpose of this study is to find out the evaluation of inspectors in regards to their competency perceptions towards the use of new instructional technologies. This is a qualitative model research. The target population of this study consisted of 25 inspectors serving within the borders of TRNC in 2011. Data was collected by an “interview form” developed by the researcher. The interview form consisted of 6 items. Content analyze, frequency (f) and percentage (%) techniques were used to analyze the data. This research pointed out that: “concerns on falling behind the teacher”, “training needs”, “decreasing training support within the years” and “non existing policy on IT support” are critical factors affecting an inspector's competency perceptions in using new instructional technologies.