Attitude of School Teachers of Dooars Region of West Bengal towards Elementary Education

Abstract

Teachers are one of the most important components in education system. Apart from teaching learning, teachers are directly involved towards mental, physical, moral, spiritual, and psycho-social development of the students. This study conducted in Jalpaiguri, a Sarva Shiksha Mission (SSM) district of West Bengal to evaluate and assess the level of achievement earned by the Elementary Teachers from the SSM. While the level of attitude of school teachers towards elementary education (Y) had been the dependent/predictor character (Y), the contributory factors had been Age (X₁), Education of teachers (X₂), Training Experience (X₃), Year of Experience (X₄), Engagement in other activity (X₅), Family Income (X₆), Social Participation (X₇), Interaction with Head Teacher (X₈), Interaction with School Inspectors (X₉), Interaction with SSM Personnel (X₁₀), Organizational Interfacing (X₁₁), Involvement in SSM activities (X₁₂), Value Judgement (X₁₃), Response about SSM activities (X₁₄), Use of TL Materials (X₁₅), Exposures to Media (X₁₆), and Opinion about present education system (X₁₇). The statistical analysis illustrated that while the variables: like (1) Education of teachers (X₂), Engagement in other activity (X₅), Family Income (X₆), Social Participation (X₇), Interaction with Head Teacher (X₈), Use of TL Materials (X₁₅) had wielded a substantive effect on the determining level of attitude of school teachers towards elementary education (Y) and (2) variables: like Year of Experience (X4), Interaction with Head Teacher (X₈) have been found to exercise significant regressional effect on the level of attitude of school teachers towards elementary education (Y).