Career Selection Changes of Microteaching Students Student

49

B. Discussion

1. Career Selection Changes of Microteaching Students Student

Teachers before and after Teaching Practice Program In this part, the writer would discuss the answers of the research problem, the discussion and explanation on it. The first research question was: “Do the students experience career selection changes after following Teaching Practice Program PPL?” From the data from the questionnaire and interview, the writer found that there were changes of career selection of Microteaching students before and after doing Teaching Practice Program. There were eighteen 18 research participants joined the research in the beginning, but in the end there were only thirteen 13 research participants remained. There were seven 7 research participants experienced career selection changes before and after Teaching Practice Program PPL and six 6 research participants did not experience any changes. The details of the career selection changes before and after Teaching Practice Program by Microteaching Students could be seen in the table 4.24: Table 4.24 Career Selection Changes of Microteaching Students before and After Teaching Practice Program CHANGE RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS I want to be a teacher ↓ I do not want to be a teacher. 3 participants 50 I do not want to be a teacher ↓ I want to be a teacher 4 participants TOTAL 7 participants After the data from Before Teaching Practice Program and data from After Teaching Practice Program were collected and analyzed, the writer found that some research participants changed their career selection and some research participants did not. There are three 3 research participants who changed their decisions from want to be a teacher to do not want to be a teacher and four 4 students who also changed their decision from do not want to be a teacher to want to be a teacher. Beside those who changed their career selection, there were also research participants who did not change their career selection. They were not influenced by the experience they found in high school during Teaching Practice Program. There were six 6 research participants who did not change their selection. Five 5 of the research participants kept their decision to be a teacher and one 1 of them stuck to his choice not to be a teacher. The reason behind their decision would be explained in the next section.

2. The Reason Causes Motivation behind the Career Selection Changes