The attitude of primary school teachers on the need for in-service training program

The research has been set up in order to identify the training needs of the teaching staff that works in the school environment, from the perspective of the self-assessment of the training needs, established in accordance with the characteristic of the pedagogical initiative that the latter puts into practice. The main instrument was a questionnaire addressed to the teaching staff. Its purpose was to identify the strategies used in motivating pupils and the level of motivation already existent in class, and the training needs of the teaching staff. This training needs refer to the contact with new strategies for motivated learning. This research intends to be one that identifies the motivational factors which are present in the school-type learning activity. But, at the same time, our ultimate objective is to set up an effective program of motivational stimulation, based on the collected data, which should contribute to the increase of the learning efficiency. This program will represent the basis for periodic meetings with the teaching staff interested in improving their academic performance or that of the classes they work with. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd.