Comparison of Pedagogical Challenges Faced by Public and Private Novice Teachers at Elementary Level

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to find out pedagogical challenges faced by public and private novice teachers and comparison between them at elementary level in three areas communication with students, motivational strategies and teaching methods. The main objectives of the study were to explore the communication challenges faced by novice elementary teachers with students, to assess the challenges faced by novice elementary teachers regarding motivational strategies, to find out the challenges faced by novice elementary teachers related to teaching methods.

All the girls’ elementary schools of district Gujarat were taken as population of the study, 53 private and 53 publics schools were taken as sample and one teacher from each school, total 106 teachers were sample of the study. A questionnaire on four-point likert scale was prepared which have 30 items and one open ended question in it. The data collected from the sample were tabulated, analyzed and interpreted by using statistical techniques as, mean; standard deviation: one sample t- test and two-way ANOVA used to compare public and private schools teacher’s results.

 The conclusions were made on the basis of analysis that the teachers in private and public school were facing challenges in communication with students, in using motivational strategies and teaching methods. And private teachers face more challenges than public teachers.