IDENTIFYING THE PRESCHOOL TEACHERS NEEDS ON TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCES TRAINING CAREER USING THE QUESTIONNAIRE
Keywords:
professional training, competences, self-evaluation, early- childhood curriculum,Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate pre-school teachers’ training needs
according to the actual early childhood curriculum. Using the questionnaire, we
draw the recent theory and research of the preschool curriculum that outlines the
main teacher`s role on personal professional training. This tool should analise the
educators six professional competences - three transversal competences according
to the European Qualifications Framework descriptors and minimal performance
standards for competences evaluation and RNCIS grid as well. We use the
questionnaire to investigate the role of acquiring and developing transversal
competences of the educator’s profile process who teach in early childhood stage.
This will get statistic results regarding their initial and professional training and
also of the proces of their self-evaluating performance and the need of improving
competences. Teacher`s professional development represents as far as the teaching
career the context of Romanian sistem education, legislation and pedagogical
science theory and school practice. Professional initial and continue teachers
training process always had continuity elements of changing world of teaching and
remained open-ended and competency based.
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