Attitude of Secondary School Teachers of Chandigarhtowards Teaching Profession in Relation to Teaching Competencies

Abstract

Teacher’s attitude is an important variable in classroom application of new ideas and innovative
approaches to instruction. The authors tried to know the attitudes of the secondary school
teachers towards teaching profession in relation to their teaching competencies. The study was
conducted on a sample of 100 secondary school teachers teaching in government model and
private schools of Chandigarh. The result of the findings indicated that secondary school
teachers of both government model and private schools have positive attitudes towards teaching
profession, also, the teaching competencies and attitude of secondary school teachers of
Chandigarh towards teaching profession is significantly correlated in positive direction.