The objectives of the study were: 1) To study and compare the job satisfaction of teacher educators teaching at NTT, ETT and B.Ed. levels. (2) To study and compare the professional and educational interests of teacher educators teaching at NTT, ETT and B.Ed. levels. (3) To study and compare creativity of teacher educators teaching at NTT, ETT and B.Ed. levels. (4) To study and compare attitude towards teaching of teacher educators teaching at NTT, ETT and B.Ed. levels. (5) To compare the job satisfaction, professional and educational interests, creativity, attitude towards teaching of teacher educators of NTT, ETT and colleges of education on the basis of sex differences, age differences and institution-wise differences. 

The hypothesis of the study were: (1) There are no significant differences in the job satisfaction of teacher educators teaching at NTT, ETT and B.Ed. levels. (2) There are no significant differences in the professional and educational interests of teacher educators teaching at NTT, ETT and B.Ed. levels. (3) There are no significant differences in the creativity of teacher educators teaching at NTT, ETT and B.Ed. levels. (4) There are no significant differences in the attitude towards teaching of teacher educators teaching at NTT, ETT and B.Ed. levels. (5) There are no significant differences separately in the job satisfaction, professional and educational interests, creativity and attitude towards teaching of male and female teacher educators teaching at NTT, ETT and B.Ed. levels. (6) There are no significant differences separately in the job satisfaction, professional and educational interests, creativity and attitude towards teaching of teacher educators teaching at NTT, ETT and B.Ed. levels on the basis of age. (7) There are no significant differences separately in the job satisfaction, professional and educational interests, creativity and attitude towards teaching of teacher educators teaching at NTT, ETT and B.Ed. levels on the basis of institutions.

The sample consisted of randomly selected 20 Teacher Educators of NTT, 90 Teacher Educators of ETT and 105 Teacher Educators of B.Ed. from Teacher Education Institutions of Punjab State.

Job Satisfaction Scale by Singh and Sharma, Professional and Educational Interest by Sundaram, Verbal Test of Creativity Thinking by Baquer Mehdi, and Attitude towards Teaching Scale by Sundaram were used for data collection. 

The data were analyzed using Mean, SD, t-test, and percentages.

The findings of the study were: (1) Majority (95%) of NTT, 82% of ETT and 92% of B.Ed. teacher educators are either extremely satisfied or very satisfied by their job. But 4% of ETT and 3% of B.Ed. teacher educators are no satisfied. (2) 95% of NTT, 81% of ETT and 60% of B.Ed. teacher educators show poor professional and educational interests but 5% of NTT, 19% of ETT and 38% of B.Ed. teacher educators have shown average professional and educational interests. (3) 35% of NTT, 40% of ETT teacher educators are found to high creativity. But 45% of NTT, 50% of ETT and 42.85% of B.Ed. teacher educators show less creativity. (4) 95% of NTT, 81% of ETT and 75% of B.Ed. teacher educators have very favourable attitude toward teaching. (5) B.Ed. teacher educators are significantly more satisfied in their job as compared to ETT teacher educators. No significant differences are found in the job satisfaction of B.Ed. and NTT teacher educators and ETT and NTT teacher educators. (6) B.Ed. teacher educators are significantly highly creative as compared to ETT and NTT teacher educator. ETT teacher educators are creative than NTT teacher educators. (7) The study show significant differences in the professional and educational interests of B.Ed., ETT and NTT teacher educators. B.Ed. teacher educators have more professional and educational interests than ETT and NTT teacher educators. No significant differences are found between ETT and NTT teacher educators. (8) B.Ed. and ETT teacher educators, ETT and NTT teacher educators do not differ significantly in their attitude towards teaching. NTT teacher educators have more favourable attitude towards teaching than B.Ed. and ETT teacher educators. (9) Females have significantly more job satisfaction than male B.Ed. teacher educators. (10) Females teacher educators are significantly more creative than male teacher educators. (11) There is no significant difference separately in professional and educational interests and attitude towards teaching of male and female teacher educators. (12) Teacher educators at B.Ed., ETT and NTT levels do not differ significantly in their job satisfaction and professional and educational interest. (13) Group II (36 – 49 years), B.Ed and NTT teacher educators are significantly more creative than their Group I (≤ 35 years) and Group III (≥ 50) teacher educators. Group I B.Ed. and NTT teacher educators are significantly more creative than Group III teacher educators and no significant differences are found for creativity between other groups. (14) Only Group I (≤ 35 years) B.Ed. teacher educators possess significantly more favourable attitude towards teaching than Group II and Group III and no significant differences are found for attitude towards teaching between other groups. (15) B.Ed. teacher educators teaching in government and private institutions do not differ significantly in their job satisfaction, professional and educational interests and attitude towards teaching. (16) Private institutions teacher educators are significantly more creative than those teaching in government institutions.