Attitudes of Prospective Teachers toward the Teaching Profession in Public Universities

Abstract

The study aims to examine the attitude of prospective teachers towards teaching profession in district Lahore. It was circumscribed to the teachers’ personal opinion, teachers’ professional development, teaching as profession, teachers’ social cultural development and professional capabilities. The students of two public sector universities of Lahore were the population of the study.  A sample of 500 students was selected randomly from the two sampled universities of district Lahore. Data was collected through a self-developed instrument which contained 41 items, each at five-point scale to seek respondents’ perceptions about teaching profession. The reliability of the instrument was established at .898. The data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics (percentage, frequency, mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient). Results showed that teachers’ personal opinion have strong relationship with teachers professional Development (.569), teachers’ social cultural development has moderate relationship with professional competencies (.445) and teaching as profession has the lowest correlation in comparison to other indicators (.235).On the basis of data analysis, it was foundthat teaching profession have significant impact on selected personality traits of the university students.