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assignificant predictors of teacher self-efficacy and job satisfaction in South Africa [49].Aconsistent theme in these articles was the need to revisit the underlying reasons that teachersjoin the profession to start with.Long-term teaching practices. The next systemic reform recommendation advocates theextension of government-sponsored teaching practice for STEM educators to betterappreciate the requirements of the teaching profession in schools. The recommendation waswidely encouraged by 91.8% of the sample population that was involved in the mixedmethods study [50]. The authors investigated school administrators’ perceptions of theemployability of preservice science, technology, and mathematics teachers through teachingpractice in Nigeria. The