The progress of a country is determined by the degree of education offered to its citizens, which in turn depends on the quality of teachers. The effectiveness of teachers is assessed through their work and behavior, which is based on how well-satisfied they are with themselves and their surroundings. The quality of teacher, in fact, is a very important determinant of academic performance of children. Even the Delor Commission report recognized its importance as it stated in his report, “Improving the quality of education depends on first improving the recruitment, training, social status and condition of work of teachers. They need the appropriate knowledge and skills, personal characteristics, professional prospects and motivation if they are to meet the expectations placed upon them” (Delor, 1996). The challenge of preparing teachers for the new society is one that our nation's teacher education programmes must meet, and to adequately tackle the challenge, the caliber of teachers must be raised. A teacher should not only be competent in his/her subject, teaching methods, understanding the learner but also has a favorable attitude as well as aptitude towards teaching profession. For this investigator took a sample of 175 student-teachers (male as well as female) form B.Sc.B.Ed stream of college of education. Purposive sampling is the method of sampling used in this study.Teaching Aptitude Test Battery (TAT-DS) by Dr. Surendra Singh Dahiya and Dr. L. C. Singh was used. It was found that no student teachers could be determined to have an extremely high level of teaching aptitude, and female student-teachers had higher mean scores of teaching aptitude than male student teachers.

The progress of a country is determined by the degree of education offered to its citizens, which in turn depends on the quality of teachers.