Abstract
The purpose of this research study is to find out and compare the professional attitude of prospective teachers of B.Ed. session (2012-2013) enrolled in public institutions, campuses of the University of Education Lahore, and private institutions, private teacher training colleges affiliated with University of Education Lahore. The population for this research study was consisted of all the prospective teachers of B.Ed. session (2012-2013) enrolled in the campuses of the University of Education as well as enrolled in the private colleges affiliated with University of Education getting and completing their academic courses and training. Out of the population the researchers drew out 240 prospective teachers using convenience sampling technique, 120 prospective teachers were selected from public teacher training institutions and 120 prospective teachers were selected from private teacher training institutions. For the purpose of data collection, the data collection instrument named the “Attitude Scale towards the Profession of Teaching”, originally developed by Ustuner (2006), was used for this research study. When the data was analyzed it reveals that there is no significant difference in the level of professional attitude of prospective teachers enrolled in public and private institutions but the prospective teachers sectioned on the base of gender show statistically significant differences in their level of professional attitude. Male prospective teachers of private sector have less positive professional attitudes than that of male and female prospective teachers of public sector.