Teaching Effectiveness of Teacher Educators as Related to Work Motivation and Professional Commitment

Abstract

Teaching effectiveness is related to the outcomes that reflect the achievement of students and the objectives of education. It is an amalgamation of both cognitive and non-cognitive attributes like academic qualification and distinctions, clarity of thought and expression, fluency, teaching strategy, charisma, experience, and socio-personal interaction. newlineThe educational organizations such as B.Ed. colleges need committed teacher educators to achieve their objectives and cannot succeed without their commitment. The teacher educators with strong commitment to the profession finds it interested in whatever they do and can involve themselves whole heartedly. The teacher educators who are not committed to their workplace are likely to put less effort in the classroom as compared to the teacher educators with high level of commitment. This would adversely affect student learning and achievement in particular and standard of education in the country in general. These realizations strengthen the need for the means and ways to evaluate and recognize teaching effectiveness. This study of teaching effectiveness can provide assistance to policy makers and administrators in understanding the degree of influence of different factors, such as professional commitment, motivation. The findings of the present study will also be of great importance to educational administrators and policymakers to improve work situation and work activities of teacher educators for strengthening the performance which leads to motivation and commitment to their profession. Therefore, present study is a meaningful effort to study teaching effectiveness, work motivation and professional commitment among teacher educators. newlineSurvey Technique under Descriptive Method of Research was employed for conducting this present investigation. In the present investigation, quantitative research approach was employed for realizing the objectives of the present study. newlineFindings of the study revealed that there existed significant and positive correlation between