Teachers who adjust to the pace of life, technology, who are interested in becoming a part of a creative and innovative society, are truly appealing. When developing a learning society, educational institutions are the ones that change the orientation of people, from one based on teaching, to one, based on learning, which allows to develop the qualities and competences of the members of organizations (Simonaitienė, 2007, p. 67).

The idea of a school community that is capable of learning is active. Schools can be recreated, turned into more lively ones and constantly renewed not only by commands or rules but by orienting themselves to learning. It means that every person should become a part of the system and also have an ability to express their personal desires, improve their knowledge and abilities. In a learning school community, everyone understands their own value as well as the benefits of learning from each other (P. Senge 2008.p.14).  Žydžiūnaitė and others second the author‘s opinion (2012, p. 313) by noticing that employees in the organizations are only eager to improve when they are led by personal / individual factors, like a desire to become more professional, realization of their lack of competences, ambition to manage personal „ignorance“ and justify confidence, a wish to be as qualified as the others. Music teachers are directly responsible for the musical erudition of the young generation, which also makes them responsible for the musical culture of the country. That is why it is very important that music teachers would always keep on learning and improving. The importance of the role of a teacher in today’s school is linked to huge responsibilities and fostering of competences like ability to learn, information management, problem solving. (J. Lasauskienė 2010, p. 6). Constant learning, a need to renew and improve own competences, is emphasized in all teacher training documents.

The relevance of the research is anticipated by the lack of ability to identify learning in a workplace, which is one of the teachers‘learning forms. The problem of the research is formulated in question: what factors encourage teachers to learn in their workplace?

The object of the research: the factors that encourage teachers‘learning in the work environment.

Goal of the research: to identify the factors that encourage the teachers‘learning in their work environment.

The authors of the research think that the identification of the factors that encourage teachers‘learning in their workplace will allow to make an assumption that the participatory photography method is the right method to measure learning in an organization.

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