PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES TEACHERS - FINDINGS OF A RESEARCH EVALUATION REPORT
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES TEACHERS - FINDINGS OF A RESEARCH EVALUATION REPORT

Summary/Abstract: Teachers play a key role in modernising education.Their competences have a direct effect upon students’ achievements. In the context of rapid technological, economic, social and cultural changes, teachers are facing new demands as well as changes in their professional roles. The quality of continuous professional development is essential not only for improving educational performance, but also for enhancing teachers’ professional identity, responsibility and awareness of their own professional development. The project titled Continuous Professional Development of Technological Sciences Teachers in the Knowledge Society, co-funded by the European Commission through the Sectoral Operational Program Human Resources Development, provided technological sciences teachers in Romania with relevant opportunities for professional development: teacher training program and experience exchange with teachers in this specific curricular area, using a collaborative online platform. A blended instructional approach was used in the curriculum design and delivery of the course modules - Habilitation on Curriculum, and Cntinuous Professional Development on Differentiated Instruction. This paper aims to present some findings of the evaluation report on the teacher training program mentioned above, as follows: the curriculum design and implementation of the training program; the impact of the training program, the program outcomes, according to the perceptions of the direct beneficiaries - technological sciences teachers; the degree of the portal accessibility and usage.The retrospective appreciation of the training program value is focused on the objectives of providing education and training professionals with recommendations for improving the training programand activities promoted through the portal, and developing similar programs at local, regional or national level.

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