<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> In the presented article, we deal with teachers’ personality and their tasks in vocational education. Based on the opinions of professionals, we characterized teachers and the factors influencing the creation process of their personality. Teachers can be characterised based on their job positions in schools, e.g. a class teacher, the school counsellor, the director, there are plenty of them in every school. Teachers’ personality is being formed throughout their teaching practice by the experience they gain. They get the basics during their teacher training when they are getting prepared for the teaching profession. We focused our attention on the issues of teachers’ professional identity. In this context, we were interested in the students of Dubnica Institute of Technology in Dubnica nad Váhom and in their perception of their studies. Our partial goal was to analyse students’ motivation to take part in teacher training which we deal with in our paper.</p></abstract>

In the presented article, we deal with teachers’ personality and their tasks in vocational education. Based on the opinions of professionals, we characterized teachers and the factors influencing the creation process of their personality. Teachers can be characterised based on their job positions in schools, e.g. a class teacher, the school counsellor, the director, there are plenty of them in every school. Teachers’ personality is being formed throughout their teaching practice by the experience they gain. They get the basics during their teacher training when they are getting prepared for the teaching profession. We focused our attention on the issues of teachers’ professional identity. In this context, we were interested in the students of Dubnica Institute of Technology in Dubnica nad Váhom and in their perception of their studies. Our partial goal was to analyse students’ motivation to take part in teacher training which we deal with in our paper.

Teachers in the Context of Vocational Education

Dubnica Institute of Technology in Dubnica nad Váhom, Dubnica nad Váhom,

Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, University of Prešov, Prešov,

Acta Educationis Generalis

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In the presented article, we deal with teachers’ personality and their tasks in vocational education. Based on the opinions of professionals, we characterized...

Teachers in the Context of Vocational Education

Published Online: Dec 13, 2016

Page range: 100 - 113

Received: Jun 22, 2016

Accepted: Nov 03, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/atd-2016-0022

Keywords
teacher, school, vocational school, teaching profession, motivation

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Teachers in the Context of Vocational Education

Published Online: Dec 13, 2016

Page range: 100 - 113

Received: Jun 22, 2016

Accepted: Nov 03, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/atd-2016-0022

Keywordsteacher, school, vocational school, teaching profession, motivation

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
teacher, school, vocational school, teaching profession, motivation