Discussions. of motivation and education typically focus on motivating students to learn. Insofar as teachers are mentioned, it is generally in terms of what they should do to motivate and improve the performance of the students in their courses. Our own research has been of this type, and our discussions have focused largely on how teachers' orientations toward control versus autonomy have an impact on students' motivation.
Recently we conducted a training program for teachers in which the aim was to foster more autonomy orientation among teachers since previous research had indicated that children in the classes of autonomy-oriented teachers were more intrinsically motivated. The most interesting result of the program was our realization that the principles which we had derived from our research on students' motivation to learn turned out to be equally relevant for teachers' motivation to teach.
Preparation of this chapter was facilitated by Research Grant BSN-8018628 from the National Science Foundation to the first author. Opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. 27 J. Rcrr (Ed.). Nw hhfa h c h k old h i q : M d i d ~ ?hfb T d €I&,, no. 10.