Relationship between Being as Teacher and Teacher's Duty Performance after Internship by the Students of Graduate Diploma Program in Teaching Profession

Abstract

This research article focuses on the relationships between, being as teacher and the teacher’s duty discharged by the students of Graduate Diploma Program in Teaching, on completion of Internship. The broad objectives are to analyze the levels of the students as teachers after completion of internship, their performance levels as teachers and to find out the relationships between being as teacher and their teaching duty performance. The sampling groups constitute mentors from the Graduate Diploma Program in Teaching Profession of St. Theresa International College numbering a total of 108 persons. A structured questionnaire was used to gather primary data and the statistical tools of mean, Pearson’s simple correlation moment were applied to analyze the data. The study results found that being as teacher and the teaching duty performed by the students are analogous and at high levels. Also, it is found that the relationships between being as teacher and the teacher’s duty performance by the students of the program after the internship are highly related at statistical significance of .01 and correlation coefficient values of .710.