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    For our students: Motivated English teachers impacting Puerto Rico one lesson at a time
    (2024-05-10) Ramirez Martinez, Yarisel A.; Soto, Sandra; College of Arts and Sciences - Art; Rivera, Rosita; Contreras, Edward; Department of English; Acuña, Salvador
    This qualitative study explores Puerto Rico’s English teachers' motivation in the educational setting. Through in-depth interviews and deep analysis, readers delve into the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that drive teachers to be outstanding in their profession. The results in this study reveal a series of key motivators for teachers, such as students and their will to empower them, making a difference in Puerto Rico, and following a religious calling. This study sheds light on the importance of understanding and nurturing teachers' motivation to enhance job satisfaction, performance, and ultimately, student success. Additionally, this study discusses some implications for educational policy and practice to better understand English teachers’ motivation in Puerto Rico. This study explores three English teachers’ life stories and how these helped them grow into becoming educators. The findings in this study dive into some demotivational factors the interviewed teachers experience in Puerto Rico and its Public Education system. As well as that, readers can understand how burnout is also part of the subjects presented and explored with the conversations with these English Teachers. These results help better understand Puerto Rican English teachers’ motivation to continue in the field and how is demotivation or burnout affecting them.