Abstract
Teaching programs and courses are very essential to make the prospective teachers able to excel in academic as well as in instructions to accelerate professional attitudes. The main purpose of the study was to find out and comparing the professional attitude of formal and non-formal prospective teachers. The study was descriptive and survey was done to collect data from 102 formal prospective teachers and 140 non-formal prospective teachers from district Sargodha using convenient sampling technique. To collect data research tool named “Attitude Scale towards the Profession of Teaching” was used. Collected data revealed that attitude towards teaching profession of non-formal prospective teachers is higher than that the professional attitude of formal prospective teachers but formal and non-formal trainee teachers on gender basis statistically showed the remarkable differences in their attitudes towards teaching profession. Male trainee teachers of formal sector showed a lesser amount of positive professional attitude than the attitudes of female trainee teachers of formal and non-formal sector.