Professional Self-efficacy of Students in the Field of Teaching

The topic of this paper is a research of professional self-efficacy of student teachers in relation to future parents of their children and pupils. Our goal is to provide the insight into the issue in conditions of preparation of teaching profession at Faculty of Education in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. It is a quantitative survey, which used a questionnaire entitled: Self-efficacy of teachers to work with parents, by Majerčíková, J. and Gavora, P. The questionnaire contains 24 scale items in five dimensions: the ability to inform of a child's well-being, explain the functioning of a school as an organisation, advise parents in education, be transparent to parents and to convince parents to support the school. The research of professional self-efficacy does not reflect actual abilities of surveyed students but their subjective idea. This article presents pilot research results.