Difficutlties encountered by primary school teachers during SSA training programme in the Nilgiris District

Training is mandatory for learning procedure in an organization wherein an employee acquires practical knowledge and skill to perform the assigned job efficiently. In-service teacher training is given to a teacher after he/she has begun to teach as it aims at enhancing the skills, knowledge and performance of the working teachers. The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) aims to provide quality education to all children in the 6 to 14 age group across the nation. Keeping in mind the importance of the SSA training programme to the school teachers a study has been undertaken to analyze the challenges/difficulties faced by the Primary school teachers through in-service training programme (SSA) attended by them during their tenure. This research is descriptive in nature which examines the difficulties faced by the Primary school teachers of SSA in-service programme in the Nilgiris District. For this purpose, a sample of 100 respondents was selected in from the 4 blocks of the Nilgiris district, using convenience sampling technique by survey method. The collected data has been analyzed with the help of statistical packages namely SPSS 20 by using statistical tools such as KMO/Bartlett's Test, and Factor analysis. In this research the reliability measure for the whole scale is 0.802 which is acceptable. In this study, the value of KMO for overall matrix was found to be excellent (0.790) and Bartlett's test of Sphericity was highly significant (p<0.05). In order to provide a more parsimonious interpretation of the results, 22-item scale as then Factor analyzed using the Principal Component method with Varimax rotation. The primary schools teachers are highly satisfied with the present SSA programmed imparted to them during their career and expect more innovative curriculum based courses to be revamped in the near future on new technologies.