Teachers’ Continuous Professional Development on Actual Educational ICT Issues, in the Frame of the ProWeb Project
Teachers’ Continuous Professional Development on Actual Educational ICT Issues, in the Frame of the ProWeb Project

Author(s): Gabriela Alina Anghel, Ana Maria Aurelia Petrescu, Gabriel Gorghiu
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: Continuous professional development; digital competences; ICT instruments; Mathematics and Natural Sciences; ProWeb project
Summary/Abstract: The teachers’ continuous professional development represents an imperative condition in nowadays education of the contemporary society - the information society based on knowledge. In this context, we assist to a multiplicity of roles that must be performed by teachers, focusing on the formative component of the educational process.In this respect, looking to the future, the students need not only to acquire the knowledge, but rather the meta-cognitive skills, in order to enable and structure an own style of learning, which value the personality, the development of interdisciplinary connections and the knowledge transfer, in the context of solving problems faced mostly in their everyday life.In the presented study, we intend to investigate the views of the teachers involved as trainees in the project “ProWeb - A Network for Teachers’ Continuous Professional Development in order to Use Multimedia, Virtual Instrumentation and Web 2.0 in the Curricular Area of Mathematics and Natural Sciences” (POSDRU/157/1.3/S/141587) - developed in the frame of the Sectoral Operational Program for Human Resources Development 2007-2013 -, related to the effectiveness of the design and realization of a training approach based on using ICT.The research methodology consisted on performing of a 12 items structured interview on a sample of 60 teachers, concerning their perception and evaluation on their own digital skills and positive effects, that could be generated by the implementation of ICT instruments, in the context of Mathematics and Science lessons.The obtained results - after processing the teachers’ answers - come to confirm our expectations. Thus, we find that teachers realized the importance of their professional training, focusing on training and digital skills development, but also on recognizing that ICT is beneficial for multiple values in the educational process.

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