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before and after Teaching Practice Program? 2 What are the causes? And 3 What are the students’ opinions towards Teaching Practice Program Pengalaman
Lapangan?
D. Research Objectives
This study is aimed to find out the career selection changes of ELESP students before and after joining the Teaching Practice Program Pengalaman
Lapangan. This research is also intended to find the causes behind the career selection changes of the students after joining the Teaching Practice Program
Pengalaman Lapangan. The students’ opinions concerning Teaching Practice Program also will be revealed through this research. The answers from this
research are expected to be useful for further study and policy making.
E. Research Benefits
The research findings can be and benefit for the policy maker, and for the study program and for further researcher.
The benefit for the policy maker or the study program is that by knowing the students’ opinions towards Teaching Practice Program, the study program can
make some new policies and changes concerning Teaching Practice Program. All the policies and changes made by the study program of course still stick to ELESP
vision and missions. Beside the benefits for the students and the Study Program, the result of this
research is also useful for the future researchers. The future researchers can gain
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some information from this study as the base of their research or as additional
information.
F. Definition of Terms
This study is about the influence of Teaching Practice Program to the career selection changes of the student teacher of English Language Education Study
Program ELESP, Sanata Dharma University. 1.
Motivations In this study, motivation is operationally defined as the inner force
that drives individuals to accomplish personal and organizational goals. Devi, 2009
2. Teaching Practice Program Pengalaman Lapangan KPE 369
a. Nature of Teaching Practice
Teaching Practice Program Program Pengalaman Lapangan is designed to train teacher candidates to have teaching skill completely and
integrated. This Program includes not only teaching but also learning practice and learning how to do other educational assignments.
Teaching Practice is the final aim from all pre-teacher education programs. Therefore, Teaching Practice is carried out after students get
enough preparation in various fields related to their duty as a teacher. The duties are basic educational mastery, subject mastery, and learning process
management. Teaching skills have many aspects related to what should be
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trained periodically and integrated. All teaching skills above need to be based with values and positive teaching attitudes.
b. Objectives of Teaching Practice
Teaching Practice Program PPL is aimed for student teachers to have competencies as mentioned below:
1 Identify school social environment carefully and comprehensively,
including physical aspect, administrative system, curricular system, and educational activities.
2 Apply various teaching skills comprehensively and integrated in real
situation supervised by the teacher and Teaching Practice lecturer. 3
Take the benefits of Teaching Practice Program in order to have teaching skill professionally.
Pedoman Pelaksanaan Program Pengalaman Lapangan, 2007 3.
Career selection According to Walker as cited in Gilley 2007, career selection can be
defined as “the process of selecting individual career objectives and devising developmental activities that will achieve them.”
4. Student Teachers
a. a college student who is teaching under the supervision of a certified
teacher in order to qualify for a degree in education b.
“A student in professional teacher education who is gaining required experience in supervised teaching.” Hawes Hawes, 1982.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
