Extracurricular activities of students - a means of forming professional motivation

The article analyzes the specificities of future teachers` extracurricular activities as a means of forming their professional motivation. The author proves that extracurricular work can be considered as a factor of generating students` primary interest to the future occupation. The variety and complexity of extracurricular activities allow to reveal the diversity of the world, the job, human relationships and lead to increased motivation for getting professional pedagogical knowledge