Continuing Education: Teacher Needs and Motives
Continuing Education: Teacher Needs and Motives

Summary/Abstract: Teacher continuing education has become inevitable necessity nowadays; however, there exists a lack of interest into motives and needs of teacher continuing education. The purpose of the research is to define continuing education needs and motives of the teachers in the North of Lithuania. The research involved 188 teachers living in the North of Lithuania and revealed that teachers were unsatisfied with their qualification development, particularly teachers with higher education, holding pre-school education teacher and senior pre-school education teacher qualification category and working as pre-school education teachers, speech therapists and teachers of music. It appeared that now the majority of the respondents choose qualification upgrading courses that are directly related to their professional activity; however, under the unrestricted conditions the respondents would prefer choosing foreign language, computer literacy, psychology and other courses. It was determined that the main motives of the researched teachers in the North of Lithuania are their professional and personal development and social security.

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