What motivates students to choose the teachers' profession a Scientific Educology of University students

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Būsimi mokytojai; Būsimos profesijos pasirinkimas; Motyvacija; Profesija; Choice of a future profession; Future teachers; Motivation; Profession.

ENYouth, its objectives, readiness for life, education are the future of Lithuania. One of the major solutions of a young person is related to the choice of a future profession, and this solution is influenced by many factors: certain demands, calls and interests, capabilities and intellect, character and temperament, goals and values. By its social and individuality-related importance, the teacher's profession is very vivid among others, as its calling is to educate and mature a human being for all kinds of professions and specialties, posts and positions. The article aims at surveying the motivation for entering Vilnius Pedagogical University and at finding out whether the choice of the teacher's profession reflects its purposefulness. The currently existing procedure of students' selection to the university does not reflect the single-mindedness of future teachers related to the teacher's profession (only marks of the Certificate are taken into consideration). [From the publication]