Okul Öncesi Eğitim Öğretmenliği Bölümü Öğrencilerinin Motivasyon Kaynaklari ve Sorunlari Motivation Source and Problems Relative Teacher Occupation of Preschool Education Teacher Department Students

New generations' characteristics are undoubtedly identical with the characteristics of the teachers who educate them. Briefly teacher becomes a human engineer, a craftsman shaping individual's personality. With the changes in education system, interest in students' learning, motivation and their development has increased. Motivation is described in psychology as an internal state that arouses humans to action pushes us in particular directions, and keeps us engaged in certain activities. Motivation appears to affect learning and performance in at least four ways: it increases an individual's energy and activity level (Pintrich & DeGroot, 1990); it directs an individual toward specific goals (Blumenfeld, 1992); it promotes initiation of certain activities and persistence in those activities; and it affects the learning strategies and cognitive processes an individual employs (McClelland, 1985). Intrinsic motivation exists when the source of motivation lies within the individual and the task. The individual finds the task enjoyable or worthwhile in and of itself (Ormrod, 1999; Akt: Ballinger, 2009). Theories of intrinsic motivation portray people as doing what they do because of a want rather than a need (Brophy, 1998: Akt: Ballinger,2009 ). However, extrinsic motivation is motivation induced by rewards or punishments dependent upon success or failure in the task. Some factors may positively affect motivation, whereas some other factors may negatively influence motivation. The diverse learning styles and using different ways of teaching students can be effective tools for motivation. Motivation is closely related with learning and teaching. In this way, motivation concept can be explained as a main factor for successful learning and teaching. Teachers can influence student motivation to learn. Motivation is an important concept in successful teaching as well as in successful learning. Moreover, one of the goals of higher education is to increase motivation for life-long learning. Purpose and Significance: The aim of this study is to identify problems and motivation sources of the students' attending preschool education teacher department and examine whether there is a significant difference according to their faculty and class. Teachers are the main component of education and their quality identifies the quality of education. In developing education's quality developing teacher's performance quality is the most important part. Teacher motivation in other words teacher's willingness to teach is an important variable to develop teacher performance. Motivation appears to affect learning and performance in at least four ways : it increases an individual's energy and activity level it directs an individual toward specific goals (Blumenfeld, 1992); it promotes initiation of certain activities and persistence in those activities; and it affects the learning strategies and cognitive processes an individual employs (McClelland, 1985). Motivation comes from within a person. What teachers really mean is that students are not motivated to learn in the way teachers would like them to learn Moreover, one of the goals of higher education is to increase motivation for life-long learning. The study is important because it will show the way to other researchers and will give another point of view to teacher education. Methods: The universe of the study is composed of students attending Selcuk University Faculty of Vocational Education, Faculty of Education Preschool Education Teacher Department. The study group of the study is composed of 179 students attending Faculty of Vocational Education and 111 students attending Faculty of Education, total number of students is 290. The descriptive research method was used for the study and as data collection device Motivation Source and Problems candidate Teacher Occupation Questionnaire which is developed by Acat& Yenilmez (2004) is used. Gathered data is analyzed using SPSS 11.0 package program.