Explanations and developments in the sphere of concept of teaching competence. The specifics of university teaching competencies
Explanations and developments in the sphere of concept of teaching competence. The specifics of university teaching competencies

Summary/Abstract: The training of academic teachers is an important aspect in the international and European contextbecause of how they are set firstly, then developed the competencies of academic teachers considerably influenceoutcomes in higher education. The competencies and professional standards are the core training, they beingdiscussed nowadays in terms of ensuring the quality of higher education, centering it on the student, but also on theexternal or internal evaluation of teachers. With the help of these competencies, in higher education, the training andrelations can keep pace with the changes taking place on the social level: the internationalization of education, interenlightenment,globalization, the mobility of students, use of communications and technologies.From the most definitions results that a competence combines knowledge, skills and personality characteristicfeatures – attitudes, skills in a particular context. Very interesting is the observation that, in identifying the keycompetencies is necessary to consider the psychosocial prerequisites of success and good living. Therefore, the keycompetencies are necessary to adapt to a world characterized by change, complexity and interdependence amongpeople.Cumulating a number of theoretical explanations on the concept of teaching competence, we intend to identifythe core aspects of the manifestation of these skills for the teacher in higher education, by reference to feedbackconcretely achieved in the interactions with the participants in a university training program. We referred to academicteacher in general and we did not consider the levels of his evolution, but a desirable model of the teacher as aprofessional, from the perspective of the training subjects. The competencies of academic teachers include specificcompetencies, and of them the critical ones are of training and transversal competencies, the psychosocial, and thelatter are those that help them adapt to the dynamics of academic environment. At the practical level, our studypresents the results of an empirical research, conducted on the base of questionnaires and experiment for theparticipants in a program of psycho-pedagogical training.

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