K-12 TEACHERS AND THEIR CHOICE TO SERVE DIVERSE POPULATIONS

 
 
 
 

K-12 TEACHERS AND THEIR CHOICE TO SERVE DIVERSE POPULATIONS

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Title: K-12 TEACHERS AND THEIR CHOICE TO SERVE DIVERSE POPULATIONS
Author: BAUER, LISABETH SCHUMACHER
Description: This dissertation research was conducted to identify factors in the lives of K-12 English as Second Language (ESL) teachers that effected their choices to serve diverse learners and populations. Key areas of focus included (a) identifying motivations for teachers to enter the field, (b) identifying practical circumstances that allowed the teachers to work in the field, (c) identifying challenges to teachers once they entered the field, and (d) identifying reasons why teachers might leave the field. The research was conducted on the Internet. A majority of respondents fit the demographic profiles of K-12 teachers overall, white, lifelong residents of the United States with Western European backgrounds (Nieto, 2002; Seidel and Friend, 2002; Taylor and Sobel, 2001). However, unlike the demographic of the larger group, ESL teachers sought the opportunity to serve students different from themselves. Findings suggest that providing pre-service and practicing teachers experiences in which they interact with diverse populations or experience being part of marginalized populations can positively impact their motivation to serve students different than themselves. Further, they suggest that when teachers are adequately prepared, the intrinsic rewards of serving student populations to whom they have committed themselves can be enough to keep them in difficult teaching situations. Finally, methods to address the dichotomy between teachers who choose to serve diverse populations despite adverse working conditions and teachers who are driven from the field because of them need to be investigated.
Permanent Link: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1069701734
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/9924
Date: 2003

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