This study found that 55% of journalism and mass communication educators first considered college teaching while in college or within 5 years after graduating from college, while 40% did not until more than 5 years after college. Two important factors in their career decisions included a personal influence (i.e., a mentor) and media experience,…

This paper examines whether teacher salary policies in the Americas can contribute to sustainable development and improve social conditions among at-risk populations. Many countries have invested in specific interventions. Chile worked to boost learning at low-performing schools. Argentina invested in new facilities to provide poor, rural schools…

Postbaccalaureate students applying for admission to a teacher certification program (n=100) were asked why they selected teaching as a career. Primary motivators were internal, such as the desire to make a difference. Many came from careers that lacked a social orientation. (JOW)

Surveyed undergraduate students in the United Kingdom regarding factors influencing their decisions to choose or not choose teaching as a career. Compared to other students, students who were seriously considering teaching careers had a much closer match of factors that were important to them in their career choice with factors that they thought…

The argument that instructors with marketable skills are likely to exit the teaching profession leads many to believe that public schools are populated by teachers of mediocre talent. Yet, teachers with skills attractive to non-education employment may not be the best individuals in the classroom. A two-stage regression technique first estimates a…

This research paper explores both the meaning of career decisions and the implications of these decisions for teacher education. Since a pilot study indicated that gender realization was influenced by the historical era in which people are raised, four subjects--two men and two women--from different age levels were selected to be the subjects of…

A survey was conducted in seven laboratory schools in order to determine teachers' experience, concerns, and insights as they relate to teaching as a career and various features of education reform. Laboratory schools in nine states participated in the study: Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Major findings…

The ten finalists for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education's annual Professor of the Year award affirm that teaching is the right career choice for them, and give their reasons. (MSE)

A model is posited that teaching career choice at the end of the sophomore year of college was function, not only of aptitude, family backbground, secondary school experiences, and precollege career choice, but also of college characteristics, institutional environmental dimensions, and measures of the college experience. (Author/MLW)

The purpose of the study was to examine five immigrant teachers' perceptions of education. This research, especially explored (a) participants' motivation of their teaching career choice, (b) their motivation to become a teacher in the USA, (c) challenges they faced in the USA, (d) how they overcame the obstacles they faced, and (e) suggestions…

This study examined the occupational stability of bachelor's degree recipients during the first 4 years after receiving the degree, analyzing whether those who were teaching in 1994 were more or less likely than those in other occupations to leave the work force for work in different occupations in 1997. Data came from the Baccalaureate and Beyond…

Although teaching is a predominantly female profession, the reason women choose teaching is not because they are incapable of other types of work. Reasons women have for becoming teachers are discussed along with ways to stem the flight of women teachers into other professions. (Author/CJ)

In a survey of 130 British design and technology students, most viewed teaching as poorly paid, stressful, and lacking in creativity and professional freedom; they had little knowledge of teacher education. Their tutors felt that the teacher's role was constrained by the National Curriculum and the profession had low status. (SK)

In this article, the author relates some of the memorable points in his career as a teacher. He also recounts the specific events that led him to choose the teaching path. Now that he is in the verge of retirement, he shares some of the valuable lessons he had learned in his teaching career for other teachers.

An educator tells the story of her experience as a beginning teacher, and describes how and why she left the classroom after two years to follow different directions within the field. Her story of professional growth, personal reflection, and self-assessment suggests that, at least in her case, statistics about attrition rates for beginning…