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Reasons for Choosing a Teacher Training Course

T are very few studies which consider why students choose to take a PGCE one-year teacher training course and there seem to be none at all which looks at different reasons students from different disciplines may have for deciding to enter teacher training. Research by Reid and Caudwell (1999) used questionnaire techniques to investigate PGCE trainees’ reasons for choosing teaching as a career. Assessing responses to twenty-one different possible reasons ranked in importance on a Likert scale, they found that the two most popular reasons chosen by 96 per cent of the 453 trainees were that they enjoyed working with children and that they felt teaching would bring high job satisfaction. They distinguished between arts and mathematics/ science graduates but found little difference in the results, the greatest being that 40 per cent of arts trainees compared with only 17 per cent of mathematics/science trainees chose continuing their interest in their studies as important. Whilst conducting research into trainee learning styles (Jarvis, 2002) the opportunity was taken to explore again the reasons for choosing a career in teaching, but allowing free responses rather than the prompted responses employed by Reid and Caudwell.