Būsimų muzikos mokytojų asmeninė karjera: profesijos pasirinkimas
Personal career of future music teachers: vocational choice

Summary/Abstract: Fast change in education system, competitive environment and changing economic conditions also change development of pedagogical professions as well as attitude to teacher’s profession. Currently new requirements for a teacher are established, which reflect the qualitatively new model for preparedness to carry out pedagogical work: skills of problem identification and their solving, awareness of latest technologies and abilities to apply them in pedagogical practice, knowledge of languages, awareness of other cultures, an ability to successfully act in a group, to work individually as well as in teams and an ability to be loyal are necessary. Nowadays a change in multipartite music culture presents a challenge to a music educator to orient in space of changes, to flexibly employ opening music possibilities, to assist learners in perceiving changes of contemporary music culture, to develop learners’ music experience and to promote emotional maturity through establishment of emotional relation with music and to presuppose transferable competences. Teacher’s profession and professional career are linked both with phenomena of global and local environment and with internal changes in the school, as an organisation, itself. Vocational choice and career planning are complex processes and they have a considerable influence on the well-being of an individual and his/her future visions. Music teache training acquires meaning only when pedagogical studies are chosen consciously and responsibly and when musical and professional abilities are developed purposefully and consecutively. Nowadays, however, not all the individuals, who have chosen teacher’s profession, are able to properly evaluate own professional possibilities. The Research into Teachers’ Demand Forecast until 2015 (2006) shows that a surplus in teachers is observed in urbanised Lithuanian regions, whereas a considerable shortage of them is recorded in smaller towns and districts. The conducted research revealed that future music teachers tend to link their personal career expectations with personal music and pedagogical abilities and latter with professional requirements. The research results allow for a statement that the process of career projecting continues throughout studies making an attempt to identify if their vocational choice is correct, to evaluate individual abilities, to establish subject-related goals and to create vision of future teacher. Thus, efficiently organised process of music studies may create conditions for satisfaction of self-expression and self-development needs of students and stimulation of value-based actualisation of music teacher’s activity. The initial period of personal career comprises stages of life vision creation, future projecting, vocational determination and vocational choice. ..

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