2025年、令和7年となりもうひと月がたちました。毎年この時期に【LINEリサーチ】中学生・高校生のなりたい職業についての調査結果が発表されます。今年はどんな結果となったでしょうか？

今年、「女子中学生」のなりたい職業ランキングを紹介します。

　第3位は看護師です。ついで第4位は美容師・理容師、第5位は公務員、6位に保育士・幼稚園教諭が続きます。

第2位は、教師・教員・大学教授で、最近は勤務状況などから人気が下がってきていると言われていますが、中学生ではまだまだ高いと言えます。

そして、女子中学生のなりたい職業の1位は、イラストレーターです。理由は、「絵を描くのが好きだから、自分の好きなことを仕事にしたい」などでした。

続いて、「女子高校生」のなりたい職業ランキングを紹介します。

　第3位は、教師・教員・大学教授で、第４位は保育士・幼稚園教諭、第５位は心理カウンセラー、臨床心理士、６位に栄養士・管理栄養士と続いています。

　第２位は看護師で、中高生ともに高いランキングとなっています。命に係わる大変なお仕事であり、なくてはならない職業です。

　第１位は、国家公務員・地方公務員となっており、「地元を盛り上げたい」や「国連で働きたい」などの理由でした。高校生になり、仕事というものがより身近になったことから、安定感などの理由もあるかもしれません。

また、会社を選ぶ際に重視することは？という質問に対しては、「休みがしっかりととれる」ことが１位となっており、２位「給料・ボーナスなどの待遇」、３位「職場の人間関係」となっていました。

　職業は、生計を立てるために必要なものであるだけではなく、社会の中で自分をどのように発揮していくか、どのように社会に参加し関わっていくかという大きな意味を持っています。その意味において、中高生の時期は、いろいろなことにチャレンジしながら自分の興味・関心や特性などについて自ら理解をし、学力だけでなく様々な能力を伸ばしていく大切な時期と言えます。

　樟蔭中学校・高等学校では、各教科における確かな学力育成はもとより、探究学習により社会・世界に目を向け、自ら課題を設定し自ら解決できる能力の育成に取り組むとともに、自治会活動や部活動・ボランティア活動などにより、それぞれの生徒が社会にでてから必要となる能力・資質の育成を図っています。これらの能力、具体的にはコミュニケ－ション能力や協調性など「思考力・判断力・表現力」「主体性をもって多様な人と協働して学ぶ態度」に関する能力ですが、従来非認知能力とも言われ、数値化（可視化）しにくい能力と言われていましたが、この度、アメリカで開発され、早稲田大学監修のもとに、日本版システムが利用可能となりました。これらの能力の育成が国や大学、企業等から求められていることを踏まえ、また、生徒自らが自身の能力を把握・育成することができるよう、樟蔭中学校・高等学校として、次年度以降本格的に導入することといたしますのでお知らせいたします。

樟蔭中学校高等学校　校長　小嶋信男

Careers that Junior and Senior High School Girls are Interested In

It’s been a month since the start of 2025, and every year at this time, the results of a LINE survey on what careers junior and senior high school students are interested in are announced. So, what were the results this year?

Outlined below are the careers that female junior high school students around the country are interested in.

Coming in in third place is nursing. In fourth place is hairdressing, in fifth place is working as a civil servant, and in sixth place is nursery school/kindergarten teaching.

In second place is teaching at schools or universities. This seems to be a career declining in popularity, perhaps due to working conditions, but one that is still popular among junior high school students.

The number one career that junior high-school girls are interested in is illustration. The main reason for this is that many students appear to like drawing and many stated that they would like to do it for a living.

Next are the jobs that high-school girls expressed interest in.

In third place were teacher, faculty staff, and university professor, in fourth place was nursery-school teacher, in fifth place were psychological counselor and clinical psychologist, and in sixth place were nutritionist and registered dietitian.

In second place was nurse, a job ranked highly by both junior and senior high school students. It is a demanding job that involves sacrifices, but one that is indispensable within our society.

The top ranked job was national or local government employee. Two specific reasons for this given by students were, “I want to help make improvements in my local area”, and “I am interested in working at the United Nations one day.” As high school students become more familiar with what a career entails, stability may be one of the main things they are looking for.

In addition, when asked the question, “What do you prioritize when choosing a company?”, the top answer was “being able to take ample time off,” followed by “good salary, bonuses, and other benefits” and “workplace relationships.”

A job is not just something you need in order to make money. It has a great significance in how you express yourself in society and how you participate and interact with those around you. In that sense, the junior and senior high school years are such an important time for students as they come to understand their interests and characteristics. At the same time students must be focused on developing skills in all areas of their lives, not only those related to academic progress.

Shoin Junior and Senior High School not only strives to develop a student’s academic ability in each subject, but also to enhance their ability to set and solve problems by looking at the world through inquiry-based learning. The aim here is to cultivate the abilities and qualities that each student will need when they enter society and is achieved through student council, club, and volunteer activities.

The ideas mentioned in the preceding paragraph refer to thinking, judgment, and expression and include communication and cooperation skills, as well as the ability to learn independently and collaborate with a wide range of people. These have traditionally been called non-cognitive abilities and had previously been considered difficult to quantify or visualize. However, a system developed in the United States to do so and subsequently adapted by Waseda University for use in Japan is now available.

In conclusion, we are pleased to announce that, considering the importance being placed on the abilities outlined in the post above by the government, universities, companies, and similar institutions, and to enable students to understand and develop their own abilities, Shoin Junior and Senior High School will be fully implementing this new system starting from the next academic year.

Shoin Junior and Senior High School Principal

Nobuo Kojima