Effectiveness of secondary school teachers in relation to their gender, age experience and qualification

Teacher is the key of any educational system. It is said that if you have everything good but teacher is not up to the level, then the system will collapse and contrary to it if physical resources are not up to the requirement but teacher is good the system will rise because an effective teacher can compensate everything but in effective teaching can never be compensated by any other means, therefore teacher is the backbone of the system. The effectiveness of teaching depends on various factors like educational background, job satisfaction, salary, environment, resources, age, gender, experience, social, parental and others co-operation etc.This paper deals comprehensively with effectiveness of secondary school teachers in relation to their gender, experience, age, qualification. Teachers of both the genders constitute the population of this study. Sample of the study comprises of 250 teachers (male=140 and female=110) teaching in different secondary schools in and around the Tinsukia district of Assam. The study revealed that majority of the teachers both male and female has average level of effectiveness in their teaching-learning process. The study demonstrates that there is no significant difference in the effectiveness of secondary school teachers in terms of their gender, age, experience and qualification.