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| Article Name : | | | PERSONALITY AND PROFESSIONALITYOF A TEACHER: ACONCEPTUAL ANAL YSIS OF CONTRIBUTION TOW ARDS EFFECTIVE TEACHING | | Author Name : | | | Vijay Grover | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-4785 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | T eaching is a profession where both performer and performance equally matters. The paper is an attempt to combine teacher and teaching termed here as personality and professionality . Personality is a complex entity but felt very easily by behaviour of the concerned person. Many theories have been put forward by social scientists to explain constructs of personality . The ‘Big Five Personality Traits’ is the best measure to explain requirements in respect of a profession and teaching in this paper .Professionality is best explained in terms of Commitment, Competence and Performance domains. Details of dimensions of these domains have been discussed specifically relating to teaching profession. In the end it has been emphasized that there is a ‘teacher type’ personality and there are some commonly agreed domains of work in teaching. A teacher needs to be fit in terms of both personality as well as professionality for becoming an effective teacher. | | Keywords : | | |
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