Vol. 3, Issue 7, Part S (2017)

Teaching is a respected profession that fosters creative thought and research specialist development, yet not all teachers share the same admiration for this noble profession. They are disinterested towards teaching profession. They must possess high level of teaching aptitude and favourable attitude towards teaching profession besides personal qualities like grooming personality, psychological information concerning child growth and development, good physical and mental health etc. The individual having high teaching aptitude with excellent personality, if enter into teaching profession will become competent teacher. The present study has been done to investigate the study of teaching aptitude of prospective teachers in relation to gender, qualification, stream of study, medium and family annual income.

Prospective teachers: Prospective teachers are those who are taking a teacher training programme From School and Colleges of education of G.B Nagar. This is teacher education programme of one year.

Teaching aptitude: Teaching aptitude is the ability of an individual, innate or acquired by training to deal successfully with the day-to-day problems of teaching profession. Teaching aptitudes the function of five variables as suggested by Singh and Sharma in the Teaching Aptitude Test Battery (TATB) namely mental ability, attitude towards children, adaptability, professional information and interest in profession. To achieve this aim the researcher adopted the survey method. The sample was taken by purposive sampling method. There is no significant difference in teaching aptitude between male and female prospective teachers. There is no significant difference between school and graduate prospective teachers in their teaching aptitude. To find out whether there is any significant difference among prospective teachers in their teaching aptitude with respect to their academic behaviour.