Teachers’ Professional Identity: A Content Analysis

This study examined the core and the peripheral elements of teachers’ professional identity. Data were collected from 80 teachers using a 21-Statements Test and a Q-sort distribution. They were analyzed using the six-domain O*NET® Content Model [1]. Teachers’ professional identity was defined using more statements related to worker characteristics (49.97%), occupational (31.01%) and worker requirements (12.49%) and fewer statements related to experience requirements (.31%), occupation-specific information (.87%), and workforce characteristics (.43%). Excepting workforce characteristics domain, the other domains of O*NET® Content Model were not identified as central or peripheral elements of teachers’ professional identity.