Abstract
The positive attitude of the teacher serves the noble profession of teaching properly in accurate condition, is the pinpoint of good teachers. It improves the knowledge, teaching competencies, skills and abilities of the prospective teachers and instils qualities like vigorous, fruitful, desirable professional and positive attitudes in them. This study was conducted to find out the relationship between attitudes of the prospective teachers towards teaching profession and their academic achievement and explore the impact of prospective teachers’ positive attitudes towards teaching profession on their academic achievement. This study was conducted in those institutes where prospective teachers were pursuing their professional degrees of education Questionnaire was distributed among 180 prospective teachers including boys and girls, for ascertaining the attitudes of prospective teachers, enrolled either in ADE or B.Ed. (Hons.) programs, while the academic achievement scores of the respondents were obtained from their examination results. On the basis of the data analysis, the major findings of the study were that, the prospective teachers were of the view that teaching profession is highly admired, noble and reverent job and it required high skills and competencies in the area of mentorship. They believe that teaching is not appropriate for every person without having the knowledge and skills of this profession. This finding clearly indicated that prospective teachers realize that teaching, should be the job and profession of those who possess the necessary knowledge and skills related to the profession.
Keyword(s)
Attitude, Prospective teachers, Academic achievement, teacher education, Balochistan