Teachers are called nation builders in every country and in every society. The role of teachers
is of great importance. It is left to the teachers to inculcate personality characteristics
right values - the values of good citizenship producing law abiding and nation loving citizens.
India has made considerable progress in school education since independence with reference to
overall literacy infrastructure and universal access and enrolment in schools. Two major
developments in the recent years form the background to the present reform in teacher education
- the political recognition of Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE) as a legitimate
demand and the state commitment towards UEE in the form of the Right of Children to Free and
Compulsory Education Act 2009. The country has to address the need of supplying well qualified
and professionally trained teachers in larger numbers in the coming years. At the same time
the demand for quality secondary education is steadily increasing. It is recommended that the
aim should be to reach universal secondary education within a maximum of ten years. Given the
problems of inadequate quality in most secondary schools due to poor infrastructure and
insufficient and poorly equipped teachers the need for addressing the professional education
of secondary teachers acquires great importance. The education of teachers should be such that
teachers should set an example and provide for their pupils the ideal of the citizens who is
conformist conservative and cautions. As for their moral character righteousness wisdom
honesty are among the adjectives which might be ascribed to them. Teachers should assist the
students in their physical intellectual religious social emotional spiritual development
in the well balanced and harmonious manner and imbue them with human values which is why
teacher education today is an integral part of any educational system. In this study
personality traits of teachers will be analyzed in conjunction with their teaching
effectiveness in order to reach a better understanding of what makes a good teacher and how
to educate him to satisfy the rising demand of the Indian society.
