Humane characteristics of teachers in relation to employability skills: A research study

Pages: 80-86
Prabha Vig (Department of Lifelong Learning & Extension, Panjab University, Chandigarh)
Komal Sharma (Research Scholar, Panjab University, Chandigarh)

The present paper proposes to determine the characteristics of effective teachers in relation to their employability skills. For this, teacher characteristics were identified under four broad indicators framed as; teacher commitment, adaptation, continuous improvement and empowerment. On the other hand, the same number of indicators were also identified under teacher employability skills named as; personal development skills; career planning and gaining employment; contributing towards the role and continuing to develop within a career. For, the present study the effect of gender as an independent variable was studied on two dependent variables viz; teacher characteristics and employability skills. To conduct this study, the data was gathered by using a self-made questionnaire distributed to 300 teachers working in the colleges of education of Punjab.