Readiness of Senior Students from the Carpathian Terrain to Choose Teaching Profession: Pedagogical and Psychological Aspects

Abstract

The article presented at the conference is the study of the problems of upbringing and
education of senior pupils from the Carpathian mountain area. Namely the author investigates the
students’ readiness for choosing the teaching profession and willingness to work at rural mountain
schools. Despite the big number of teachers in the labor market of Ukraine, now the system of
education meets an acute issue dealing with the selection to the pedagogical specialties talented
creative young people who actually choose teaching profession by nature and strong personal will.
Today there are very few teachers whose level of commitment to perform professional duties in
Ukrainian education is really high, and this is especially true about mountain school teachers. This
phenomenon can be partially explained by the fact that teaching profession has low prestige in our
society for the recent decades (Ukrainian teachers are not well-paid, their working conditions in
rural Carpathian schools leave much to be desired). Therefore the problem of readiness of high
school students to perform professional-pedagogical duties is of particular relevance. The author
analyzes the psychological and pedagogical basis of the presented problem, defines the essence
and structure of the notion “readiness for choosing the teaching profession”. In the context of
solving this issue one of the important conditions the author considers the comprehensive
development of senior school students, particularly the development of their creative abilities.