Teaching Effectiveness of Secondary School Teachers in Relation to their Morale

Abstract

Teachers’ role is changing today. Besides imparting knowledge, he should also diagnose the learner’s needs and problems. He should be a friend, philosopher and guide. The effectiveness of educational system largely depends upon the active, resourceful and competent teacher. So there is a great need to pay more attention to teaching effectiveness and its implication for classroom teaching. Therefore the present study has made an attempt to study the correlation between Teaching Effectiveness of secondary school teachers and their morale. The sample of 200 teachers was selected by quota sampling technique from secondary schools of Tumkur Educational District. The data was collected by using Teachers’ Morale Inventory and Teaching Effectiveness scale constructed by Dr.B.G.Sudha and Sri B.S.Satyanarayana. The findings reveal that teachers with high morale were better in their Teaching Effectiveness. The teachers of Government schools were significantly better in their Teaching Effectiveness and gender has no influence on Teaching Effectiveness of secondary school teachers