Professional Commitment is a ‘passion to the work involved in teaching or a specific aspect of teaching’. It is an investment of time outside of contact hours with students as a responsibility to impart knowledge, attitudes, values and beliefs and take responsibility for passing on a core set of skills, understandings and values. Professional commitment is the willingness to engage with the school and the school community. It is a belief that teachers have a professional responsibility that reaches out beyond the four walls of the classroom and perhaps even extends beyond the boundary of the school. The present study focuses on the Professional Commitment of the teachers working in tribal area schools located in Tamil Nadu. By using the normative survey method 121 samples were drawn by the investigator under  random sampling technique from the school teachers working at secondary and higher secondary levels. The schools were located in Holli Hills (N=64) and Sitheri Hills (N=57).The findings of the study shows that, the maximum number of teachers have acquired ‘average’ and ‘Low level’ professional commitment. The male and female teachers have same level of professional commitment. The professional commitment of the school teachers is towards the welfare of students, welfare of society, human values and academic excellence.

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