Why I Want to Teach: Exploring Factors Affecting Students' Career Choice to Become Teachers
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Keywords
career-decision making, perceptions, preference, social perceptions, education
Abstract
This is a qualitative study which explores different factors affecting the career decision-making of Grade 10 students leading to a choice of becoming a teacher. A total of 388 students participated in the study with 40 students from Metro Manila who conveyed they are pursuing teaching as a career. Data analysis involved coding and categorizing of responses with defining of emerging themes related to students' motivation to teach. It had two levels of data collection: survey questionnaire to gather student's perceptions about teachers and teaching as a profession and a focus-group discussion to validate salient themes that emerged from the responses to the survey questions. The findings revealed that early exposures to the role of teachers and influence of close family members contributed to the preference to pursue education as a program in tertiary education . Moreover, the student-participants had positive regard for teachers and the teaching profession. The students described their teachers as having positive personal characteristics, which served as model for them. On the other hand, the positive and negative perceptions regarding the teaching profession surfaced. Lastly, the study recommends that orientation programs include parents of students and model teachers of the schools to strengthen the students' interest to pursue teaching.
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Canizares, M. J. F. (2015). Tracing University of San Carlos' science and mathematics education graduates : How well are we in developing teacher professionals?, International Journal of Research Studies in Education, 4(2), 69–86.
Ching, G. S., Ling, M.-C., & Wang, W.-L. (2015). Practice teaching : An inquiry into the experiences in developing an evaluation tool used in classroom observations, International Journal of Research Studies in Education, 5(1), 63–74.
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CHED. (2016). Infographics 13.
Darling-Hammond, L. (2000). Teacher quality and student achievement : A review of state policy evidence previous research. Education, 8(1), 1–44. DOI: 10.1038/sj.clp.
Durik, A. M., Vida, M., & Eccles, J. S. (2006). Task value and ability beliefs as predictors of high school literacy choices: A developmental analysis. Journal of Educational Psychology, 382-393.
Janer, S. S., Deri, R. A., Dio, R. V, Marbella, F. D., & Ricafort, J. D. (2015). Factors on enhancing competitive edge and attributes of graduates as inputs to the development of teacher education enhancement program (TEEP ), 3(4), 25–33.
Joseph, D. (2011). Early Career Teaching: Learning to be a teacher and staying in the job. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 36(9). DOI: 10.14221/ajte.2011v36n9.5.
König, J., & Rothland, M. (2012). Motivations for choosing teaching as a career: effects on general pedagogical knowledge during initial teacher education. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 40(3), 289–315. DOI: 10.1080/1359866X.2012.700045.
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Mattison, H. (2012). Sigurado ka na ba: Exploring Career Uncertainty in Filipino College Students, 157-194.
Nauta, M. A. (2003). A longitudibal examination of the social-cognitive model applied to high school girls' choices of nontraditional college majors and aspirations. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 448-457.
Pascual, N. T. (2014). Factors affecting high school students' career preference: A basis for career planning program. Global Society of Scientific Research and Researchers, 1-14.
Salazar-Clemena, R. M. (2002). Family ties and peso signs: Challenges for career counseling in the Philippines. Career Development Quarterly.
Saysay, K.-L. (2011). A qualitative study on Pilipino American students relative to their high school success and career choices. (University of Southern California Dissertations and Theses).
Shin, Y. J., & Kelly, K. R. (2015). Resilience and decision making strategies as predictors of career decision difficulties. Career Development Quarterly, 63(4), 291–305. DOI: 10.1002/cdq.12029.
Thompson, G. L. (2015). What makes a teacher outstanding?: A contrast of teachers' and African American high school students' perspectives, Journal of Urban Learning Teaching and Research, 4, 2008. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ837810.pdf.
Thompson, G. L., & Shamberger, C. T. (2015). What really matters: Six characteristics of outstanding teachers in challenging schools, working with challenging students. 8(2). Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/ascd-express/vol8/802-thompson.aspx.
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Watt, H. M. G., & Richardson, P. W. (2008). Motivations, perceptions, and aspirations concerning teaching as a career for different types of beginning teachers. Learning and Instruction, 18(5), 408–428. DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2008.06.002.
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Mangaoil, A. B., Rungduin, T. T., Abulencia, A. S., & Reyes, W. M. (2017). Why I Want to Teach: Exploring Factors Affecting Students’ Career Choice to Become Teachers. The Normal Lights, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.56278/tnl.v11i2.536
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