Attitude of Teachers-in-training to Teaching Profession in the Nigerian Tertiary Institutions
Keywords:
education, teaching profession, teachers-in-training, AttitudeAbstract
This study was a survey of the attitude of teachers-in-training to teaching
profession in the Nigerian tertiary institutions taking College of Education,
Ikere-Ekiti and the Faculty of Education, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti as a
case study. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of intending
teaching personnel and their dispositions to the teaching profession. The
participants were stratified into two and random sample was used to draw one
hundred students in the College of Education, Ikere Ekiti and fifty students in the
Faculty of Education, Ekiti State University. A set of validated questionnaire
entitled: Attitude of Teachers-in-Training to Teaching Profession [ATTTP] was
used to measure their attitude to job roles in the teaching profession. Simple
percentage and t-test statistics were sued in analyzing the data obtained for the
study. Findings revealed among others a deep negative attitude and non
committance of the teachers-in-training towards teaching profession. To revert
this unacceptable development, the culture of discipline, integrity, hardwork
and dedication should be entrenched at the training level of teachers-in-training.
Also, government and other stakeholders in education must ensure that they
improve upon the welfare of teachers so that other people will be interest in
joining the profession.
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