THE MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS INVOLVED IN CHOOSING THE UNIVERSITY TEACHING CAREER.

The teachers training (including those who teach at tertiary level) occupy a "special" position among the activities carried out within universities. Nowadays, higher education of teachers is widespread, which was not the case twenty or thirty years ago. The university teachers training has progressed with the professionalization of the teaching career. Both aimed to increase the quality of education, not only due to the university teachers training, but also due to the change in the general approach to education. We mention that all teachers should have a higher professional qualification, which would give them recognition of the important role they have in society. Also, the recent reform of the teacher training system in Romania brings major changes in this regarding the didactic master's degree. By excellence, the teaching profession assumes the permanent formation and development of the teacher so that she / he can offer to the one it teaches a comprehensive perspective on the field she/ he teach. The teacher from any specialization thus engages in a training process that will develop his career periodically until the end of it. During the teaching career one of the most important aspects is maintaining the motivation for professional development within the teaching career. This paper aims to investigate the motivational factors involved in choosing a teaching career and to examine the availability of professional development in order to choose a teaching career by students at the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest. The overall development of the personality of a well-motivated student with inclinations for the teaching profession will lead to efficient teaching, given that future teachers will work in an environment with increasingly high socio-professional requirements and needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]