School environment and career stages of school teachers: An empirical study

Pages: 473-476
Rituparna Basak (Department of Psychology, Muralidhar Girls College, Kolkata, West Bengal)

The purpose of this study is to explore the patterns of relationship between different career stages and different dimensions of school environment in different school teachers selected from different school of Kolkata. Huberman, (1989) proposed the theory of career stage model which describes teachers’ professional work at different stages. 300 data were obtained from the school teachers of Kolkata. Career Stage Scale developed by McCormick, and Barnett (2008) and Revised School-Level Environment Questionnaire developed by Johnson, Stevens and Zvoch (2007) have been used in this study. Findings revealed that collaboration, student relations, school resources, decision making and instructional innovation are significantly and positively correlated with most of the career stages. Stepwise regression analysis indicated that all the career stages were significantly predicted by different dimensions of school environment. This study highlighted that teachers on different career stages are often characterized as having more positive relation with colleagues and students, interested in experimentations in the schools and older and experienced teachers actively take part in the decisions of schools than other teachers.