When is happening a crisis situation in teacher`s career?

This is a comparative analysis regarding teacher`s needs for training. One item is related to the period when a crisis may occur.

Which was the period of time during your career when most frequent crisis situation happened/occurred?

                                                                         Research 2000       Research 2010

a. In the first year:                                                  33,23%                 49%

b. Between 1 and 3 years                                       26,00%                 27,9%

c. Between 4 and 8 years                                       11, 35%                 10%

d. Between 9 and 15 years                                     12,45%                    5%

e. Between 16 and 20 years                                     6,59%                     2,7%

f. Over 20 years                                                      11,38%                   5,4%

Guide for motivating teachers (II)

* Excerpt from my book - Motivation for teaching career, Bucharest University Publishing House, 2010 (see entire book in the right column of site)

Exercise 5

What do I need to be more motivated?

Some things are obvious and there can be said that each of us knows very well the things necessary to feel motivated. Generally that is true but this thing happens only at the level of fundamental motives. But your motivation profile is far from being made up only by two-three aspects. We are rather talking about a complex network of elements; the main ones are more difficult to be dealt with because their position in the conscious zone proves the fact that even if you knew what leads in a decrease in your motivation, you have not had the opportunity so far to overcome this state of the art.

In return, the less obvious reasons, which were unconscious as such, have more chances to be solved. Think about the following analogy: the case of shareholders’ general meeting in a firm. You want to convince the meeting, but you have few chances to do so at the level of the main shareholders. However, the “small” shareholders, with little power by themselves can influence the balance of votes for your proposal if they are individually convinced. In the same way, even if the main motivators cannot be solved there is still a chance to support your motivation by listing a more extended enumeration of attractive elements for the teacher career. 

10 things that motivate me to be a teacher:

Guide for motivating teachers (I)

* Excerpt from my book - Motivation for teaching career, Bucharest University Publishing House, 2010

Exercise 1:

Evaluate your own motivation for being a teacher on a scale from 1 to 10 (where 1 is the lowest level of motivation and 10 the highest). Where are you at this moment in time? Do not try to justify your choice. Go for the first choice you can think of. This intuitive option represents your START point.

Motivation for teaching career
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10

Exercise 2

What motivates you?

Initial stage/phase

Think about the motivation typology described above. Analyse your own motivation for the teaching career. To what type of motivation it is related? 

Types of motives	Rank (1 minimum/lowest rank minim, ... maximum/highest rank)	Justification
Motivation of power
Motivation of achievement
Motivation of affectivity
Motivation of approval
Motivation of curiosity