CONTINUOUS TRAINING OF TEACHERS IN ROMANIA COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BEFORE AND AFTER THE PANDEMIC
CONTINUOUS TRAINING OF TEACHERS IN ROMANIA COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BEFORE AND AFTER THE PANDEMIC

Summary/Abstract: Having well-trained and motivated teachers are the prerequisites for quality education, wherein students can reach their full potential. The pandemic context that led to the transition from the face-to-face education to the online one further emphasized the vital role of teachers in providing all students with equal and quality learning opportunities. The health crisis has highlighted the weaknesses of the education systems, but also the strengths that have allowed them to adapt to the newly created context of online or hybrid education. The pandemic context once again underlined the need for the continuous training of teachers. Starting from this premise we aimed to identify the situation of continuous training of teachers in Romania before the crisis and two years after the pandemic, in the current context of COVID-19 endemic. We proposed a comparative analysis of the topics of the training programs before and after the pandemic, using the data provided by the relevant ministry. Our research is based on public data provided by the Directorate for Continuing Education of the Ministry of Education in Romania, responsible for the accreditation and evaluation of continuing education programs for pre-university teachers. The study aims to identify the evolution of continuing education having as a starting point the latest Register for continuing education programs at the time the pandemic started (March 15, 2020) and the register for continuing education programs accredited two years after the health crisis began (15.01.2022).

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