Big Five Personality Traits

AN INVESTIGATIVE APPROACH ON THE PROSPECTIVE TEACHER’S PERSONALITY SHAPING

Introduction

In the changing globalised scenario of education teaching has become more challenging and complex. It is now not only a mere interaction between student and teacher but an organised, systematic process in which application of science, technology and consideration of behavioral science is of outmost importance. In this context a teacher should have an all round ability starting from academic superiority to behavioral adaptability. So, presence of some inherent and coherent quality like personality, acceptability, adaptability, values, accountability, professional ethics etc are essential for a teacher to reach the peak of excellence. In this paper we will

Dimensional descriptions in connection with the expectations of teacher’s effectiveness in the field of organizational behavior provide the basis of desirable or undesirable personality characteristics judgment. So pronounced neuroticism, as an undesirable trait for teachers in interactions with students is quite a justified assumption. Teachers with high neuroticism will need a long span of time to improve their social skills and communicative relationships to their students. Moderate extraversion is enviable because of its association with self-confidence, friendliness and positive emotions. A teacher should have receptive attitude towards unconventional ideas and acceptance of different cultural backgrounds, various feelings and behaviors of their students. To be an efficient teacher one should have openness to novelty, creativity, well-developed vocabulary and curiousness. High level of agreeableness along with a reasonable level of conscientiousness is essential so that competence, sense of duty, self-discipline and dedication can emerge in his/her work. So selection and application of Five-Factor Model is appropriate to the research on teacher personality. Personality influences the various behavioral aspects of the teacher in many ways like interaction with students, teaching methods selection and learning experiences choice. Instructional activities are best conducted by the effective use of a teacher 's

Personality is one of the important qualities for a teacher which makes one different from other and more acceptable to the student. But an all-round development of personality is affected to a great extent in reality by versatile factors .Because of this different research study , different commission and committee , different classroom activities, different psychological organization are working on the different variable of personality and provides necessary suggestions towards a critical justification in the teacher education field .But study on the pupil teachers personality on the basis of gender, demography, student type(deputed and fresher’s) etc. are rare in literature. So as a rational thinker the researcher in this present research work has thought such important topic as rational of the