New Curricular Approaches in the Pre-academic Learning System from Bihor County, Romania

Abstract

Since the academic year of 1998-1999, the Romanian Ministry of Education has started implementing an educational reform based on the New National Curriculum which focuses on students’ learning needs. In its simplest sense, the scholar curriculum is represented by the academic content that is taught by teachers for their students. By contrast, in a larger sense, the scholar curriculum consists in all the educational experiences that students take part in during scholar period. Moreover, according to the academic reform, the scholar curriculum should be focused on the educational objectives, trying to establish what students will be able to do at the end of the learning process. Therefore, the aim of the present research is to analyze how teachers can apply that mentioned academic curriculum in their didactic activities. The sample was represented by 179 students who attend the inferior secondary learning system from Oradea, Bihor County, Romania. The methodology of our research was a questionnaire composed by 20 items that was applied at the end of academic year 2012/2013. The results proved that the majority of teachers improved their didactic style, teaching a modern and relevant educational content and using various and interactive teaching/learning/evaluating strategies.