Professional adjustment of secondary school teachers in relation to their teaching aptitude

Quality education is the most important requirement for national, regional and global development. The main aim of providing quality education is to bring out hidden talents of the child and thus lead to overall development of the child. Imparting education can be success only if the learner is willing to learn and the teachers are competent enough to teach. For teachers to be good teachers only competency is not the condition, they should have the required teaching aptitude, teaching attitude, should be willing to teach and should be well adjusted in the profession because maximum time is spent by an individual at his work place and if an individual is not well adjusted it creates stress, not only physically but also mentally which directly or indirectly affects the performance of an individual. Many a times it is the professional adjustment of the teachers what creates the problem.

This study was conducted to assess the professional adjustment of secondary school teachers in relation to their teaching aptitude. Descriptive survey method was used in the study of obtain the precise and pertinent information. It was found that the teaching aptitude of the male and female teachers teaching in secondary schools was above average and also that the teaching aptitude of the teachers teaching in private and government secondary schools was above average. The professional adjustment of both the male and female teachers teaching in government and private schools was poor. It is also seen that there is no significant difference in the teaching aptitude of male and female teachers. It is also seen that the teachers those who have high professional information and have interest in profession are better adjusted than the teachers those who are not interested in teaching profession.