Conclusions CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

This chapter discusses about the conclusion and suggestions of this research. The conclusion and suggestion contained the brief illustration from the analysis of the career selection changes before and after Teaching Practice Program PPL of Microteaching students.

A. Conclusions

This research studies about the career selection changes before and after Teaching Practice Program of Microteaching students of Sanata Dharma University Yogyakarta. The second research problem discusses about the reason motivation why the career selection of the students was change. The last one is about the Teaching Practice Program students’ opinion about Teaching Practice Program. Based on the analysis of the data before and after Teaching Practice students, the writer found that there were some changes about the students’ career selection. The changes were various. There were research participants who wanted to be a teacher after they joined Teaching Practice Program then they did not want to be a teacher. There were also research participants who did not want to be a teacher, however after Teaching Practice Program then they wanted to be a teacher. Besides changes, there were research participants who kept their decision since before Teaching Practice Program until after Teaching Practice Program. There was one 1 participant who kept his decision not to be a teacher and five 61 62 5 research participants who still want to be a teacher after joined Teaching Practice Program. The summary of the changes could be seen in the table below: Table 5.1 Career Selection Changes of Microteaching Students Career Selection PARTICIPANTS I want to be a teacher ↓ I do not want to be a teacher. 3 participants I do not want to be a teacher ↓ I want to be a teacher 4 participants TOTAL 8 participants Table 5.2 Constant Career Selection of Microteaching Students Career Selection PARTICIPANTS I do not want to be a teacher ↓ I do not want to be a teacher 1 research participants I want to be a teacher ↓ I want to be a teacher 5 research participants TOTAL 6 participants The reason and motivations why they wanted, did not want, still did not want or still did not want would be presented in the table 5.3: 63 Table 5.3 The Reasons and Motivations of Career Selection Changes of Microteaching Students Career Selection REASONS I want to be a teacher ↓ I do not want ‐ Complex and too much school administration jobs. ‐ Hard work, low salary. ‐ The difficulties they found in high school. ‐ The big responsibility to the student. I do not want ↓ I want to be a teacher ‐ Teaching Practice Program give them inspiration and enlightenment to understand their future career. ‐ Information from lecturers and friends made them understand about what is teacher profession actually. ‐ She took teachers training and education faculty which is designed to prepare teacher candidates. ‐ The thought that become a teacher, in fact could easily got jobs, many people seek, and she could improve her hobbies. ‐ To be a teacher is not too bad. She 64 found out that teaching could be interesting. Table 5.4 The Reasons and Motivations of Constant Career Selection Changes of Microteaching Students Career Selection Reasons I do not want ↓ I do not want ‐ The problems and difficulties that they teachers faced when they taught the students. ‐ The assumption that they could not be a teacher. ‐ Teacher’s salary is too low. I want to be a teacher ↓ I want to be a teacher ‐ Teacher is a noble job. ‐ Being a teacher is match with his major study. ‐ Because teaching is interesting. ‐ Because teaching is amusing. Based on Maslow’s theory about human motivation, we know that physiological needs were the most important needs to fulfill. Physiological needs including the needs of food, sex, place to live and things related to physical importance. All of those needs can only be fulfilled with money. That is why it became the most common reason why the respondents tend not to be a teacher in 65 high school. In their opinion, high school teachers’ salary is not enough to fulfill all of their needs. The other things that the writer found were the research participants’ passion in teaching. Most of the research participants stated that they liked teaching but because certain reason they altered their career selection not to be a teacher. The most common reason why they gave up teacher as a career was because of the salary. According to the research participants, salary was an important thing in selecting a job.

B. Suggestions