PROFESSIONAL COMMITMENT OF ELEMENTARY TEACHER EDUCATORS IN RELATION TO GENDER AND JOB SATISFACTION

The present investigation was undertaken on professional commitment of elementary teacher educators in relation to gender and job satisfaction. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. Total sample of 206 elementary teacher educators were selected by employing incidental sampling techniques. The data were collected with the help of Professional Commitment Scale for teacher educator developed by Sood. (2011) and Teacher’s Job Satisfaction Questionnaire developed by Nasrin and A. Anees. (2015). For analysis of data, statistical technique of Analysis of Variance (Two way) was applied. The findings of the study revealed that male and female elementary teacher educators possessed similar level of professional commitment. Further, it also found that gender and level of job satisfaction was not significantly influenced professional commitment of elementary teacher educators. On the other hand, it was revealed that the level of job satisfaction a significant difference exists in the professional commitment of male and female elementary teacher educators. The educational implications have been discussed at the end of the manuscript.