Professional Commitment among Secondary School Teachers

Professional development of teachers is the corner stone of every education system since it greatly depends upon enhancement of the quality of the education system of a society or nation. The present study explored the level of professional commitment of secondary school teachers. The population of the study consisted of secondary school teachers of Hyderabad district in Telangana state. The study conducted on the sample of 96 secondary school teachers selected from government and private schools which was selected through stratified random sampling technique. The tool used for data collection is Professional Commitment Scale for Teachers developed by Kaur, Kaur Ranu & Kaur Brar. The tool has 45 items from five dimensions i.e. Commitment to the Learner, Commitment to the Society, Commitment to the Profession, Commitment to the Excellence, and commitment Basic Human Values. The statistical techniques used for analysing the date are mean, standard deviation and t-test. The findings showed that there is significant difference in professional commitment among government and private secondary school teachers. The private secondary school teachers have higher level of professional commitment than the government secondary school teachers. It is also showed that there exists no significant difference in professional commitment among secondary school teachers with more than and less than 10 years teaching experience. There exists significant difference in professional commitment among male and female secondary school teachers. The study recommends some needed policy frame works to enhance the professional commitment among school teachers.