Values of Prospective Teachers

Values are seen in the external behaviour of human beings. They are the internal dispositions expressed externally upon need and demand. They make the human beings live comfortably or uncomfortably as they are the characteristics that decide their behaviour. Hence thy are required for every human individual. Teachers are the persons who exert great influence on their students and hence they should posses human values. They need to be imbibed in the teachers in making in teacher education colleges. That is why this study has been undertaken to identify the level of values possessed by the prospective teachers so that they can be developed through proper education and guidance if found less in them.  Prospective teachers studying in secondary teacher education in colleges are having a high level of values. There is no significant difference in the level of values possessed by the men and women prospective teachers, rural and urban prospective teachers, science and arts prospective teachers and graduate and post-graduate prospective teachers. The findings of this study will be of great use to the teachers, teacher educators, academic administrators. policy makers and parents to take care of the components concerned to values at different levels and kinds of education.