A New Baton for Teachers
How can we increase the number of students
interested in teaching?
Kosei Gakuen Girls’ High School
SGHN032

BackgroundI want to be a teacher in the future

However…
Recently, there are many negative news reports aboutteaching as a career.

Background: Two main issues
1. Shortage of teachers
The Ministry of Education
surveyed public elementaryjunior high, high and special
education schools in Japan.

The results showed ashortage of 2558 teachers inApril 2022.
(Source: NHK web
Based on data from the Ministry of Education, 2022)

Background: Two main issues
2. Working Conditions
The OECD surveyed elementaryand junior high schools in48 countries

JHS teachers in Japan worked onaverage 56 hours each week!
The average of the 48 countries
was 38 hours(Source:The Asahi Shimbun)
Based on data from the TALIS - Teaching and Learning Survey (OECD,2018)

Which needs to be solved ﬁrst?
It is a chicken and egg situation…!!

(Source: HACKERNOON)

We can’t solve the problem of working conditions without
first getting more teachers!

Research question
What “we” can do as private high school students

How can we increase the number of students
who are interested in teaching?

Methods
MethodDetails

Tools

Literature review

Reading books and newspaper articles to find out about the issues andprevious campaigns to get people interested in teaching and theirresults.

Books
ArticlesPre-interview
Questionnaire

We carried out a questionnaire on 6 teachers at our school.
There were nine questions.
The goal of this questionnaire was to know about their working
conditions and why they wanted to be a teacher.
Dates: October 25 to October 29.

Paper

We asked four teachers follow-up questions based on their answers toour questionnaire.
Dates: October 26th, 29th, 31st

Oral

Follow- up Interviews

Findings: Literature review
How have people tried to promote a career in teaching?
Case Study: “Kyoshi no Baton” (Teacher’s Baton)
Image: ‘Kyoushi no Baton’Date: From March 26th, 2021
Method: Twitter
Who: The Ministry of Education (Japan)
Goal: They wanted teachers to share thegood points of teaching using SNS.
(Source: Ministry of Education)

Findings: Literature review
Case Study: “Kyoshi no Baton” (Teacher’s Baton)
Was it successful? No● Teachers shared negative points of teaching.
● This was widely reported in the media and it highlighted the bad points ofteaching.
According to Uchida not enough consideration was given to:1) The popularity of SNS (including Twitter)2) Use of Twitter by younger teachers who are suffering fromlong working hours
3) School teachers can’t say the bad points of the job at school(Source: 内田良 (2021).『＃教師のバトンとはなんだったのか〜教師の発信と学校の未来〜』. 岩波書店)

Discussion

Social media is not a good way to share
information about being a teacher

It is not direct or active

Findings: Teacher Questionnaires / Interviews
Question: Why did you want to be a teacher?
● Many teachers were inspired by their teachers.
● Most of the teachers have wanted to teach since they werestudents at school or university.
● Most wanted to work with young people.
● Most wanted to share and explain information

Findings: Teacher Questionnaires / Interviews
Question: What do you feel are the good points of being a teacher?

● Almost all teachers said they feel happy when seeing thestudents grow up and make progress.

● They all enjoy talking with students and sharing knowledge.

Findings: Teacher Questionnaires / Interviews
Question: How do they think we can convey the good points ofteaching to young people?

“Teachers don’t have to convey the good points of teaching toyoung people. Students should find them!”“Teachers should be good role models for their students, so a
positive image of teaching is spread.”“Share with second year high school students in their Career
Design class.”

Discussion
High school students should be targeted!
They should experience teaching a class to feel the good pointsExperiencing teaching will make high school students:
1) Interested in teaching2) Know about the details of the job
3) Think about getting a teaching license!

Discussion: What is “Career Design”?
Our school will start “Career Design” class from 2023
Goal: The students can make their future plan themselves
Image: New curriculum of Science & Humanities class, Sports & Culture class from 2023

Second grade
high schoolstudents

90 minutes /week(Source: Kosei Gakuen Girls’ Senior High School)

Conclusion

Students shouldn’t be told the good points of teaching…
Students should be given a chance to learn about the realities ofbeing a teacher by experiencing them in high school!
We can use Career Design classes to do so.

Suggestion:
Let’s give students the opportunity to experience the good
points of teaching by being teachers:● Prepare a lesson on a topic they enjoy with help fromtheir teachers● Teach the lesson to their classmatesFuture directions:
We want to do this suggestion in a real class.
After that
We want to make a video about the results.
※ （Put the video on the HP of Kosei girls.）

Ex) How did students thoughts about teaching changeReferences:
NHK web, 2022, [online] https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20220131/k10013459211000.html [Accessed 4November 2022]
The Ministry of Education, [online]
https://www.mext.go.jp/content/20220128-mxt_kyoikujinzai01-000020293-1.pdf[Accssed 5 November 2022]
The Asahi Shinbun, 2022, [online] https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13062973 [Accessed 4 November 2022]
The OECD, 2018, [online] https://www.oecd.org/education/talis/ [Accessed 10 November 2022]

The Ministry of education, 2022, [online ]https://www.mext.go.jp/mext_01301.html [Accssed 6 November2022]
Kosei Gakuen Girls’ Senior Highschool[online]https://www.girls.kosei.ac.jp/wp-content/themes/koseigirls/images/pdf/Kosei-Girls-high-2023.pd
f [Accessed 7 Novenber 2022]
HACKERNOON https://hackernoon.com/of-chickens-eggs-and-pms- xrp32dd[Accessed 4 November 2022]
内田良 (2021).『＃教師のバトンとはなんだったのか〜教師の発信と学校の未来〜』 . 岩波書店.

Bibliography
Mainichi Shinbun,[online]https://mainichi.jp/articles/20221027/k00/00m/040/142000c [Accessed 5November 2022]
The City of Yokohama[online]https://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/kurashi/kosodate-kyoiku/kyoiku/sesaku/hi
school/kyouinyousei.files/0002_20221021.pdf[Accessed 5 November 2022]