learners and teachers. (Hiromori, 2009; Manolopoulou and Sergi, 2004; Amrai, Elahi, Azizi Zalani, and Parhon, 2011). These factors can be grouped into three types as followings: a) integrative / instrumental, b) extrinsic / intrinsic, and c) global / situational, and task". According to the teachers, six factors are identified as follows: " a) self- versus other-orientation; b) intrinsic career value; c) ability perceptions and personal utility value; d) teaching as a fallback career; e)…
I interviewed Dawn Hofsted, a high school math teacher at the Forest Grove High School. When I first walked into the school, the environment felt very different from what I was used to. I went to a private school all my life, the Forest Grove High School felt very big, the hall ways was triple the size of my high school’s hall way; When the kids got out of class, everyone was talking to each other and walking in different directions and the big hall way became very packed and busy. When I got…
contemplating where they might want to spend their years after high school and what career path they may want to follow. However, never having the experience of being in a college class makes choosing a school type much more difficult. Being a part of the Holy Cross Gifted High School Program will give me a sneak-peak of my future and will better prepare me for college. I am enthusiastic about continuing my education after high school and I would be grateful for the head start this program would…
bilingual is very helpful and important. Being able to speak spanish opens the door to so many career opportunities. It will help with trade and communication with spanish countries. Job opportunities for example helping people at places that don't speak english will open up. Also becoming a spanish teacher is possible. It is greatly important that students should be required to learn spanish in school. Being able to speak spanish is a great thing. All students should be required to learn it…
The life of High School Dropout is serious because many students drop out of school for their own reason.. The attendance of High school Dropout has dropped dramatically and teachers are seeking to help prevent High School Dropout from occurring.Teachers wants us to learn not to just give up on school.High School Dropout is very important to consider and to help prevent it. This is a direct result of the increase of High School Dropout students in many schools. High School Dropout is affecting…
This chapter presents a review of current quantitative researches on teachers’ burnout and attrition rate. Studies show that the current attrition rate for the entire teachers’ population is 35% high (Struvyven& Vanthournout, 2014). Ingersoll, Merrill & Stuckey (2014) study analyzing the transformation of the American teaching forces found that the teaching force is increasingly less stable as the statistics on annual teacher attrition from 1988-1989 to 2008-2009 reveals that attrition rate…
as a way to increase the number of high school graduates receiving multiple diploma seals as well as an opportunity to increase the number of students attending higher institutions of learning. DE is a strategy designed to improve both high school and college graduation rates (Bragg et al., 2006). Many view dual enrollment to be an essential tool for education; however, there are problems that must be addressed regarding the programs to ensure that high school graduates have full access to…
During my high school career writing was not recognized as much as it is now and there wasn't a huge place of importance on it. In high school the only writing I was concerned with are essays. However, now in my college career I have to take other texts into consideration. For example, writing an email to my professor will take a lot more thought rather than writing an email to my high school English teacher. I believe this because pre college relationships with teachers are much more informal.…
In today’s society our education system is struggling greatly with certain things. Most importantly, high schoolers are going in to college on their first day and being completely unprepared and unsure of what to expect. Teachers are not getting their students ready for all the possible difficulties college can bring. This issue needs to be solved so that students do not have to risk the possibility of not graduating on time. In order to fix this problem of unpreparedness heading into college we…
the case, they have inspired my decision to be a teacher, preferably an elementary school teacher. Last year, I sat in on my aunt’s third grade class at Washington Irving, an elementary school in my district that I attended for three years. After visiting the classroom a handful of times, I absolutely fell in love. I, then, found my passion and decided I wanted to be an elementary school teacher. 6 Finding the perfect school to attend for your career choice is the first of many important things…