TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHER EDUCATORS IN RELATION TO THEIR WELL-BEING

Generally teaching is delivered by a teacher to enhance the amount of effective learning of a learner. To make learning more meaningful, understandable and fruitful to a learner, effectiveness of teaching delivered by a teacher is very essential condition. This concept of teaching-learning process is not exceptional one in case of teacher training institutions. Other side Teachers professional wellbeing provides information about statement of teachers in terms of teaching profession. In order to strengthen the role of teacher educators, it is needed to look at their all round well-being. Present study was conducted to find out if there was any significant mean difference in teaching effectiveness and well-being of teacher educators in respect to gender, location and types of colleges (Govt./Non-Govt.) in West Bengal and to establish the relationship between teaching effectiveness & well-being of teacher educators. ITAS and GWBS scales were administered on 344 randomly selected teacher educators of B.Ed. colleges for measuring their teaching effectiveness and well-being variability according to their categorical variations and relationship of teaching effectiveness and well-being. The descriptive survey method was used for the present study. The finding of this study indicated that educators teaching effectiveness differed significantly in maximum cases while to compare in respect to the gender, and college types but the difference was insignificant in relation to the location of the college. Regarding wellbeing of teacher educator, no significant difference was found in respect to the difference of gender or the area from which college belongs and college types of the teacher educators. The present study also explored the relationship between teaching effectiveness and well-being of teacher educators and overall result showed positive relationship between the variables.