Design and Delivery of a Training Program for Teachers in Primary Education: Interdisciplinary Organization for the Key Competences Training for Young Schoolchildren, from Pre-school Class to Class IV

摘要

The international trends in design and delivery of the training programs are in a emphasized assimilation process in Romania during the last two decades. Improving teachers’ access and participation in primary education to the continuous training opportunities, based on digital resources and blended learning courses, in order to support the young schoolchildren's’ key skills training by organizing interdisciplinary learning offers represented, this year, a national strategic priority. Its importance is emphasized especially by the need for the continuous training who of those teachers which will coordinate the preparatory class (novelty and specificity for the primary Romanian education) at the beginning of the school year 2012-2013. Our study aims to highlight the steps taken by the authors of this training, starting by the basis of a training needs analysis, identifying the priority interest areas, planning training solutions, designing training events and resources, accrediting the program, delivering the program, integrating new information and communication technologies, managing training activities, assessing trainees’ skills and establishing creative-anticipatory action strategies, in order to create an environment of continuing education in primary education and a culture that encourages and rewards the learning and vocational development.