Essentials of job satisfaction in effective teaching

Job satisfaction of teachers is essential for the effective teaching learning process in schools and colleges. We can say that effective teaching is the results of job satisfaction. The teacher who is dissatisfied with his/her work will be unable to motive his/her pupils to attain learning. Job satisfaction of teacher has long been a focus of attention for educational researchers. Arguably, this is because of links between job satisfaction and organizational behavior issues such as commitment, absenteeism turnover, efficiency and productivity. A sample of 200 teacher educators (100 male and 100 female) working in secondary teacher training institutions (B. Ed. Colleges) situated in Haryana state are selected through random technique of sampling. Job satisfaction of school and college employees may be related to personal characteristic, such as age, gender and years of experience. This paper is an attempt to understand the essentials of job satisfaction in increasing the quality of teaching and learning in the classrooms. The results were evaluated and significance was seen at both 0.05 level and 0.01 level of significance. Teacher Effectiveness Scale by Dr Pramod Kumar & Dr D.N. Mutha (1974) and Job-Satisfactions Scale by Meera Dixit are selected to find the essentials of job satisfaction that helps in better teaching in classrooms. This study found that there is very strong relationship between job satisfaction and teachers effectiveness in teaching and thus, points out at the essentials required in teaching.