The inclusion of career guidance in the life orientation (LO) curriculum has posed a number of challenges for LO teachers in South Africa. LO teachers seem to experience confusion, feelings of incompetence, and insufficient training that points to a need for training and professional development. The purpose of this article is to explore the training needs of LO teachers in teaching career guidance at rural high schools in the Lephalale Municipality of the Waterberg District. A qualitative research approach was followed in this study. This study was a small investigation in which non-probability purposive sampling was used to select 2 secondary schools and 1 LO teacher per selected school. Face-to-face, semi-structured interviews were used to elicit responses from a purposefully selected sample of 2 Further Education and Training (FET) LO teachers at 2 rural high schools in the Lephalale Municipality. FET LO teacher training needs in teaching career guidance emerged as a major theme and is discussed in this article.Keywords: career guidance; FET phase; Life Orientation; life orientation teacher; rural high schools; training needs

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农村高中就业指导中的生活取向教师培训需求

将职业指导纳入生活导向 (LO) 课程给南非的 LO 教师带来了许多挑战。LO 教师似乎经历了困惑、无能感和培训不足，这表明需要培训和专业发展。本文旨在探讨沃特贝格区勒法拉莱市农村高中职业指导教师在教学职业指导方面的培训需求。本研究采用定性研究方法。这项研究是一项小型调查，其中使用非概率目的抽样来选择每所选定学校的 2 所中学和 1 名 LO 教师。面对面，半结构化访谈被用来从 Lephalale 市 2 所农村高中的 2 名继续教育和培训 (FET) LO 教师中有意选择的样本中获得回应。FET LO 教师在职业指导教学中的培训需求成为一个主要主题，并在本文中进行了讨论。场效应管相位；生活定位；生活导向教师；农村高中；培训需要