Motivation of Student Teachers’ Professional Career

The negative consequences of an incorrectly chosen profession affect both the person himself/herself and his/her social environment. The right choice of profession helps to reduce staff turnover and increase labor productivity. This truth is directly related to the teaching profession. The problem of motivating a professional teaching career, as well as the problem of motivating human behavior and developed. There are practically no special studies that would trace the relationship between the motives for choosing a pedagogical career and the motivation for pedagogical activity among students at the initial stage of teacher education. The purpose of the study: to identify the career orientations preferences of first-year student teachers from various types of universities implementing teacher education programs: the capital’s pedagogical university, federal university, classical university, regional multidisciplinary university in the national region, regional pedagogical university and regional university of humanities and technology. E. Shein’s method of studying professional career motivation (adapted by V.E. Vinokurova and V.A. Chiker) was chosen as the research method. First year students of six Russian universities enrolled in the Pedagogical Education program participated in the study. The study presents the student teachers’ career orientations on the following scales: professional competence, management, autonomy, job stability, residence stability, service, challenge, lifestyle integration, entrepreneurship. Dispositions, value orientations and social attitudes of students that influence career orientations are also presented.