This document discusses teaching as a vocation, mission, and profession. It begins by describing how a young girl named Ellen was inspired to become a special education teacher after helping a classmate who was being ridiculed for his learning disabilities. The document then defines vocation, mission, and profession and discusses how teaching fits within each concept. It describes teaching as a calling to help others, as a task to educate and inspire students, and as a respected career that requires specialized skills and training. The document highlights factors that influence students' choices to enter the teaching profession, such as intrinsic motivations to make a difference or extrinsic motivations like job stability and respect for the career.

1. Teaching as a Vocation,
Mission, and Profession
Prepared by:
Kris Dennenese

2. There was this young girl named Ellen in
seventh grade who had a classmate with learning
problems. Her classmate was often ridiculed
because of his disabilities. Then she found herself
convinced to reach out to him. Although, Ellen was
pretty shy but she started sticking to him. She really
helped him in his studies. This experience set Ellen
on course to become a special education teacher, a
job that she has built around her vocation, which is
helping the disadvantaged.

3. Vocation
 Latin word “vocare”- to call
 A calling is a sacred gift. It’s a way to reach out.
It’s very subtle (Chard, 2002).
 “True vocation is using your gifts for the benefit of
others in a way that makes you happy. You don't
necessarily need a paying occupation to do that.”

4. Teaching as a Vocation
 Effective education involves a personal
transaction (Rhodes, F. H. T, 1993).

5. Mission
 Latin word “misio”- to send
 “task assigned”
 "a body of persons sent to perform a
service"

6. Teaching as a Mission
 a task entrusted to you
 teaching out of love
 We need a sense of mission in
education; a relentless focus on
teaching quality so that all our schools
inspire the confidence of young people
and parents(Twigg, S. 2011).

7. Profession
 Latin professio(n-), from profiteri ‘declare
publicly’
 a type of job that requires special education,
training, or skill
 a calling requiring specialized knowledge and
often long and intensive academic preparation
-Merriam Webster

8. Teaching as a Profession
 committed
 rendering service to community

9. Characteristics of the Profession(Barker,
P.2004):
 Members possess skills and competence
 Altruistic, serve public, their clients above self-interest
 receive an extensive period of education
 competence is tested by means of appropriate
examination and other forms of assessment
 receive action-based training in the professional skills

10.  licensed to practice
 have autonomy over their work
 existence and enforcement of a code of ethics and
professional conduct
 Self-regulation
 Self-discipline
 High societal status, respect and rewards

11. Profession as a Career
 Career choice is considered as one of the major
areas of concern for young people nearing the
end of their schooling(Alberts, Mbalo, Ackerman,
2003).

12. Factors with the Career
Choice:
 structural
 social
 psychological

13. Balyer’s Research (2014):
1.1 Altruistic- Intrinsic Reasons
-- teaching is worthwhile; there’s an enjoyment,
passion, interest, importance
“Students teachers choose their career with personal
factors rather than economic and social
factors(Ozbek,2007).”
“They have an interest and love in teaching, see the
profession as an appropriate, respectable, and blessed
work(Tataroglu, Ozgen, Alkan, 1998).

14. “Some others have some ideological approaches like
influencing young generations (Kelly, 2012; Lawver &
Torres, 2011).”
Hac?omeroglu and Task?n (2010) found that while
some candidates choose the career as they think that
the profession is respectable and they like teaching
children, others think that the profession will make them
happy.

15. 1.2 Extrinsic
-- economic, social status, conditions of service
“It is revealed in some studies that student teachers are
motivated to join profession with mostly extrinsic
reasons (Chan, 1998).”
“It is considered that students are interested in teaching
as a career, and generally regard teaching as a
preferred and respected occupation (Lai, Ko, & Li,
2000).”

16. 1.3 Influence of Others
--peers, teachers, relatives and parents' effect
“Student motives are also influenced by their own
images and experiences of school life and the work of
teachers (Hutchison & Johnson, 1994; Butcher & Lewis,
2002; Reid & Caudwell, 1997; Chan, 1998; Heafford &
Jennison, 1998).”

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21. “One looks back with appreciation to the
brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to
those who touched our human feelings.” –
Carl Jung
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