PRACTICE-ORIENTED EDUCATION AS A FACTOR FACILITATING THE FORMATION OF THE FUTURE PEDAGOGUES’ MOTIVATION

The problem of studying the motivational sphere of the student's personality is one of the most relevant in psychological and pedagogical science as the combination of educational and professional motives determines graduates' further choice of the employment place, their socialization among the new staff and adaptation to the pedagogical activity as a young specialist. The analysis of scientific research has shown that the student's motivational sphere is an integrative system which is characterized by the complex structure, dynamism, incommensurability, conflicts of interest and value orientations. The author's attention is focused on the learning of motives which dominate among students when entering a pedagogical institution, prevail in the process of pracical training as well as determine a place of further employment. It was discovered that a significant part of students undergo positive changes in the motivational sphere during their practice. The development of motives for choosing a further job is usually due to the motivation of admission, socio-economic factors. A direct assessment of the students' ideas concerning the motives of pedagogical activity is in the basis of the conducted questionnaire. The choice of three hierarchical positions from the proposed list does not allow us to conduct a research of the future teachers' deep motivational formations. However, this investigation is the basis for determining the prevailing tendencies related to the formation of the motivational sphere of students majoring in different specialities; it helps to obtain general information about their professional and educational motives. The received results serve as a reference point for making changes in the process of teaching students, training them in methodology, in organizing and conducting their practice, which allows predicting the employment of graduates.