International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
Year : 2018, Volume : 8, Issue : 7
First page : ( 286) Last page : ( 295)
Online ISSN : 2249–2496.

Enhancing teacher effectiveness through psychological Well- Being: A Key to improve quality of teachers

Zaki Saman

Department of Educational Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Online published on 1 August, 2019.

Abstract

Teachers play significant role in nation building. Teacher contributes in remodeling the destiny of a country through influencing the learners. For improvement in teaching learning program teacher should have improved in all manners. Today, there are number of important issues related to quality of teachers and student achievements have been discussed in educational policies of India for improving Indian education system. For this more concern has been given to teacher effectiveness. This paper has made an attempt to explain the enhancement of teacher effectiveness with the help of psychological well being which is trending topic in positive psychology. When teachers function well, mentally healthy and feeling motivated to teach, they are more effective in their teaching and promote motivation and achievement among their students. In current paper, six dimensions of psychological well being describe how to enhance teacher effectiveness and to make teachers function effectively in teaching learning programs. This paper also discusses projects of India which are initiated for enhancing teacher effectiveness for betterment of Indian education and strategies related to purposeful and meaningful engagement in life, to increase self confidence, to develop as independent and autonomous person, realization of personal talents and capacities, to improve professional skills and enlightened self-knowledge for promoting psychological well being of teachers are discussed which in turn results in facilitating teacher effectiveness.

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