To explore the personality factors of the teachers

A teacher’s success depends on good qualities like enthusiasm, patience, cooperation, control and classroom management then he gets satisfaction from his students. In the same way, a teacher’s personality and mindset can have a positive or negative influence on their academic performance in teaching-learning process. In the Big Five-Factor model of personality, five basic dimensions of personality is organized a hierarchically to describe personality of a teacher i.e., (a) Openness, (b) Conscientiousness, (c) Extroversion, (d) Agreeableness, and (e) Neuroticism. The aim of this study was to explore the present status of teachers’ Personality Factors in secondary and higher secondary schools of West Bengal. The present study was designed to carry out through the Descriptive Survey Method by administering Big Five Inventory (BFI) (Goldberg, 1993) on a random sample of 616 school teachers of West Bengal. In the test there are 44 statements and with each statement a 5-point Likert type scale is attached and ranging from 1 to 5, where 1=disagree and 5=agree. The results of the study reflected that on an average the teachers of West Bengal were high personality factors in Extroversion, Conscientiousness and Openness and low personality factors in Agreeableness and Neuroticism. It might be concluded that the teachers might have balanced personality.