SCHOOL AMBIENCE AND TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS AMONG THE SCHOOL TEACHERS WITH REFERENCE TO SCHOOL-RELATED VARIABLES

The main objectives of the present study are to find out the relationship between school ambience and teacher effectiveness among school teachers.The study was conducted through a descriptive survey method of research.The population for the present study is the school teachers (N=760) who are working in various levels, nature and categories of schools in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu.The researcher employed a simple random sampling technique in this study.The differential analysis shows that there is a significant difference between/among the groups of medium of instruction, type of schools, locality of school and nature of school of school teachers in the mean scores of school ambience.The study also found that there is a significant positive correlation between school ambience and teacher effectiveness.Hence, the government should create a healthy school environment to improve teacher effectiveness and student performance.