IMPERATIVES FOR CHANGE IN THE CONTINUING TEACHER TRAINING. AN INTERNATIONAL AND ROMANIAN PERSPECTIVE?

Abstract

The current study advocates for the critical role of teachers and their adapted and specific continuing training in providing qualitative educational services. Current trends, measures and principles of education evolution at the international and national level as they appear in consultative and strategic international (OECD, UNESCO, European Commission) and Romanian documents are selected according to pre-set criteria. They are comparatively and thoroughly analyzed and twelve specific topics with important implications for the improved continuing training of teachers. We identified topical issues that both indicate new general accents of education as well as new accents emerging form the recent sanitary crises. The topics are grouped in two categories: topics related with the need for teachers’ and students’ upskilling and reskilling and topics related to school organization and curriculum vision. The highlighted topics are detailed and discussed, in order to extract and promote specific imperatives these topics create for the continuing teacher training.