Assignment - Education

                      Teaching profession and motivation to become a teacher


If you were not present at the lecture from education, complete these two tasks:

1) Find out one inspiring video about teaching on TED: https://www.ted.com/. What does teaching
mean according to this video? How does teaching profession differ in comparsion to other
profession? How could you achieve qualities of teaching described in this video?


2) Read an article in study materials: Chris Kyriacou , Åge Hultgren & Paul Stephens (1999) Student
teachers' motivation to ) become a secondary school teacher in England and Norway, Teacher
Development, 3:3, 373-381.

Summarise main findings of the article.

Compare motivation of researched students with your motivation towards teaching.

Think about the methodology. What could cause this difference between students from England and
Norway? Can we generalise these findings? If not, is this research relevant?


Total: 2 pages.


Katerina Lojdova