Why I Want to Teach: Exploring Factors Affecting Students' Career Choice to Become Teachers
Year: 2017
Type: article
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.
Source: The Normal Lights
Authors: Armina B. Mangaoil, Teresita T. Rungduin, Arthur S. Abulencia, Wensley M. Reyes
Institution: Philippine Normal University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4293152240