THE PROBLEM OF FORMING PROFESSIONAL MOTIVATION OF FUTURE TEACHERS IN THE MEASUREMENT OF THE NEW UKRAINIAN SCHOOL

Abstract

The problem of forming professional motivation of future teachers in the measurement of the development of the new Ukrainian school is considered. The techniques “Motivation of teaching students of pedagogical university” (S. O. Pakulina, S. M. Ketko) and “ Studying the motives of students’ educational activity (modification of A. O. Rean, V. O. Yakuninin)” were applied. The Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University became the base of empirical research. According to the conducted surveys results, the leading motives of teaching future teachers were analized, the nature of the dominance of motives (external / internal) in their professional motivation was clarified. It is shown that the main motives for students’ studying at the moment of investigation were the internal ones, which are part of the structure of professional motivation and are its driving force. In the course of the research the conditions necessary for the formation of stable motives of students’ professional motivation (procedural-substantive, didactic-educational, psychological) were formulated.The results of the study confirm that the effectiveness and success of the formation of students’ professional motivation depends directly on the level of motives, among which the internal, professionally oriented motives (high cognitive interest) should dominate the external, narrow-personal motives (low cognitive interest). In order to ensure such a result, a purposeful, systematic work based on partnership and subject-subject interaction of the pedagogical process participants should be organized in the higher education institution. We see the prospects of further scientific research in the identification and characterization of the factors of positive and negative influence on the pedagogical universities students’ educational and cognitive activity; in the study of the development of motivation for learning in the context of distant form of organization of future teachers training; in the study of the peculiarities of forming motivation for learning and for the profession of a teacher as well.