Teaching aptitude of B. Ed. Student-Teachers of the institute of advanced studies in education and college of teacher education in Odisha

The characteristics of the teacher as yardsticks to measure the achievement and aspirations of the nation have been considered as an important factor in this research. The potentiality of a country can be evaluated by the work of a teacher. They are the real nation builders. The teachers inculcate right conduct, right thought, in the students by their active association and classroom participation. Teacher performance, teacher competence and teacher effectiveness are all interlinked and influenced by other characteristics of teacher such as teaching aptitude, attitude towards teaching profession and Value pattern etc.. The success in teaching and satisfactory preparation of teaching profession is only possible to those people who have remarkable aptitude in teaching.

Thus this study was conducted with the object to know the level of teaching aptitude of student-teachers continuing their Bachelor of Education programme in Odisha. In this regard 180 student-teachers were taken as sample from six institutions of two types and their teaching aptitude was administered through the standardized tool ‘TEACHING APTITUDE TEST BATTERY’ developed by Singh and Sharma. It was found that no student-teacher could qualify for high teaching aptitude level and the mean scores of teaching aptitude of female student-teachers are more than the male student-teachers.