Educational Quest- An International Journal of Education and Applied Social Sciences
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 2

Effectiveness of teachers in relation to their experience and gender

  • Author:
  • Anil Kumar1,, Munesh Kumar2
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 177 to 182

1Directorate of Distance Education, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

2Department of Education, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

*Email: anil.manuu@gmail.com

Online published on 27 November, 2012.

Abstract

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 is not up to the requirement but teacher is good the system will rise because an effective teacher compensate everything but 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 other cooperation etc. This paper deals comprehensively with effectiveness of teachers in relation to their experiences and gender. The present study is concerned with all the post graduate teachers teaching in senior secondary schools of Delhi government. The sample of 150 teachers was taken from the 30 government senior secondary schools of Delhi. Keeping in view the objectives, the time and the resources available, the sample included 90 male, and 60 female teachers from Government and Government Aided schools of Delhi. The sample for the present study was selected through stratified random sampling technique. The schools were selected through random sampling and teachers were selected through incidental or purposive sampling.

Keywords

Physical resources, Secondary school, Graduate teacher