Students Academic Performance in Physics Correlates the Experience of Teachers in Higher Secondary Schools of Jammu and Kashmir State

At the heart of the success of any school improvement process is teachers' willingness to change and improve their knowledge, attitudes and practices.The role of school leadership is crutial in combining professional and accountability measures for effective collaboration of teachers in this regard. To guide the study, four research questions were raised. The multi-stage sampling technique was used to collect data from tree hundred teachers as respondents. A validated questionnaire titled: Students Academic perfomance in physics correlates the qulity of teachers with the used of simple frequency counts and percentage for analysis. From the data analysis it was revealed that: the role of professionally qualified/trained teachers is an important teacher quality which enhances students’ academic achievement in physics, teaching methods adopted by the teachers significantly influence achievement of the behavior objectives. Several schools in the population of the study lacked modern instructional materials without which effective teaching and learning cannot be utilized and teachers’ experience significantly influence students academic performance; capacity building programes a major aspect of teachers’ experience that is yet to be given adequate attention. Its importance cannot be over emphasized in view of senior secondary school student’s poor performance in both internal and external examinations. Based on these findings, appropriate recommendations were made.