Motivational resources of teachers' Innovative educational activities

The article considers the sociocultural context of modern educational policy. The author conducted the analysis of studies devoted to teachers' motivational readiness to innovative educational activities. There are presented the research results on the motivation structure of teachers having the experience in creating and implementing innovative projects. It was found that the structure of motivational profile of teachers-innovators contains in a greater degree the extrinsic motives and the motive of “hope for success”. It is experimentally proved that the nature of a motivational resources of teachers-innovators is contained in: a) their choice of activities related to adequate assessment of the professional situation and the careful analysis of their competence to address professional issues that arise in this situation; b) their choice of the professional strategies that are defined by the practice of joint group activities, experience of team interaction.