Abstract
The Teaching Profession Support Center of Otsuma Women’s University conducted a survey on the attitudes and learning of students who took teacher training courses at four universities in Tokyo metropolitan area in the fall of 2012. It asked them motivation towards teaching professions, learning attitudes and their self-evaluation on teaching competence. About 70% of respondents wanted to be teachers and 30% answered they became thinking to be teachers in their high school days. Although most students studied hard their major subjects as well as teacher training course curriculum, they did not get relevant information actively, nor do they read books on education independently. They highly evaluated their own attitude of accepting advice from colleagues and learning of their specialties.
