Pre-service Teachers’ Willingness of Teaching in Rural Areas

Abstract

The strategic support of rural revitalization is the revitalization of education, and the revitalization of education depends on the revitalization of talents. In this study, questionnaire survey and semi-structured interview were used to investigate pre-service teachers’ willingness of teaching in rural areas. In general, there are some problems, such as pre-service teachers have one-sided employment tendency, not active willingness of teaching in rural areas, weak service consciousness, low quality of hardship, insufficient career planning, incomplete understanding of employment situation, rural less practice experience, employment expectation gap, incomplete understanding of work content, less care about work policies. In addition, job stability, salary, working environment, public opinion, professional preference and career choice confidence have a positive impact on pre-service teachers’ willingness of teaching in rural areas. Based on this, this paper put forward the promotion strategies of pre-service teachers’ willingness of teaching in rural areas from the perspectives of individuals, universities and the government. Individuals should establish correct ideas and give full play to their subjective initiative. Universities should innovate their training models and encourage students to take root at the grassroots level. The government should exert macro-control to improve rural education conditions.