Influence of Teachers’ Attitude towards Teaching Profession on Under Graduate Non-Education Students Perception of Teacher Education

Abstract

Teacher’s attitude towards teaching profession can either encourage or discourage students from being desirous of engaging in teaching profession. The major purpose of this study was to find out the influence of some teachers’ attitudes towards teaching profession on the perception of non-education under graduate students of private universities in Enugu State Metropolis of teaching profession. The population of the study consisted of all the 3641 non- education undergraduate students of both Godfrey Okoye and Caritas universities in Enugu. The sample size of 360 was used for the study. The sample size was determined using Yamane’s (1964) statistical formula. Based on that, 360 copies of questionnaire were distributed to the respondents. The data collected were analysed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). The findings among others include that-incompetency of some teachers in delivering their lessons, demanding money from students to pass them in their examination the issue of befriending female students by some male teachers influence undergraduate students’ perception of teaching profession negatively. It was concluded among other things some teachers’ negative attitude toward teaching profession and unethical behaviour exhibited by some teachers contributed a great extent to the poor perception of undergraduate students towards teaching profession. The recommendations made includes: that the teachers should be proud of their profession , prepare their lesson very well to show mastery of their subject matters and exhibit positive attitudes towards their profession so as to encourage students to be desirous of teaching profession.