Prospective Teachers’ Attitudes to their Profession

The article concentrates on the attitudes of the future teachers toward their profession. We were interested in what kind of information about their future profession (together with prejudice, stereotypes etc.) the students have and how they feel about it from their personal perspective. We used a questionnaire with 69 items Likert scale. 34 men and 104 women, all of them university students of teacher training, represented the respondents. They live in villages, small and big cities; their parents are (are not) teachers, they have (have not) a certain teacher as a model. Female students, who have a model and parents who are teachers, have more realistic attitudes towards their profession, but altogether we have obtained the results of positive attitudes of the respondents towards the job from the whole group, which is a good ground for them.

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