1. Are the future teachers apt for teaching
Are the future teachers apt for teaching? Teachers’ Aptitude Testing Comparative Analysis: Rural-Urban Inter-state Male-Female

2. What is aptitude? Intelligence Intelligence Personality Personality
Achievement
Exam
Intelligence
Personality
Achievement
Exam
“condition or set of characteristics regarded as symptomatic of an individual’s ability to acquire to acquire training in some (usually specified) knowledge, skill, or set of responses such as the ability to speak a language, to produce music etc.” 

3. Teaching Aptitude predicts
Effectiveness
Competency
Students’ achievement IQ
Input  System Output
Teachers  Schools Students’ Outcomes

4. Choice of test

5. Teaching Aptitude test battery
Choice of Test
Occupational Aptitude Survey
Vs.
Teaching Aptitude test battery
->Mental Ability
->Attitude Towards Children
->Interest in profession
->Professional Information
->Adaptability

6. What are DIETs? District Institutes of Education and Training
Teacher Training Institutes, set up under National Policy on Education ‘86
Focus on
Resource Support
Training
Action Research

7. Are the future teachers really apt to teach?
DIET, Gurgaon
Sample Size: 154
Instrument: Teaching Aptitude Test Battery by Singh and Sharma
Methodology: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
A Case Analysis: DIET, Gurgaon

8. More Pay
No Incentive for performance; No accountability
Hindi Speaking Population
Job Security
Modeling
Teaching Motive
To give back to where I come from

9. DIET, Gurgaon: Academic Achievement
Admission on Merit; Cut off: 80%
Field Visit: Efficient Functioning
Interview Answers: “Proud to be in DIET, Gurgaon”

10. Frequency Distribution of
TEACHING APTITUDE of Students of DIET, Gurgaon
Aptitude is positively correlated with Academic Achievement. Is it?
Y AXIS
1 UNIT=
20 STUDENTS
(z scores)

11. SCORES IN SUB AREAS MENTAL ABILITY ATTITUDE TOWARDS CHILDREN
ADAPTABILITY
PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION
INTEREST IN PROFESSION

12. Frequency Distribution of Mental Ability of Students of DIET, Gurgaon
What is the kind of teacher training in Haryana’s one of the best DIETs?
Does achievement tests in India make you able?
If teachers aren’t mentally able, how will they teach the children?

13. Mean: 16.25
S.D: 2.09

14. NEGATIVE SKEWNESS

15. 1ST VS. 2ND YEAR STUDENTS
More 2nd years in the above average range OF Teaching Aptitude
But no such trend in Mental Ability.

16. Subjects Taught in D ed.
-> Concentrated Experience (Lack of multiplicity of experiences)
Study of Child Psychology and Teacher Function
Education Philosophy – Education in Emerging India
Education Psychology
Teacher Function (Role of teachers in primary education)
Hindi
English
Mathematics
Social Science (EVS I)
Science (EVS II)
Physical Education (Games)
Art Education
“Coaching” Vs. Social Desirability Vs. “Reality”
-> TET Coaching couldn’t affect Mental Ability

17. BOYS
VS.
GIRLS

18. TEACHING APTITUDE of boys and girls
MENTAL ABILITY of
boys and girls
Girls: Boys Ratio=1: 5
Average:
Female: 82.01
Male: 81.84
BOYS > GIRLS Are they?
Female
Male

19. Why?

20. Why? ?

21. Male Vs. Female Part Scores Girls>Boys Interest in Profession
Professional Information
Boys>Girls
Mental Ability
Adaptability
BOYS=GIRLS

22. To Do Rural-Urban Comparative Study; Inter-state Comparative Study;
Male-Female Comparative Study;
Correlation between Aptitude and Achievement
ANSWER: ARE THE TEACHERS REALLY APT TO TEACH?
RECOMMENDATIONS: POLICY REFORMS
RTE’S TET: IS IT THE BEST INSTRUMENT?
TEACHING AS LEADERSHIP