Didactic Career Research Articles

Wrocławski okres w życiu naukowo-dydaktycznym profesora Jana Gwiazdomorskiego jako przejaw opresji Ministerstwa Oświaty

The end of World War II tore Poland from one totalitarianism (Nazism) and pushed it into the clutches of another, equally dangerous — communism. The new order and the new ideology took over Polish reality in its entirety. Unfortunately, this also applied to science and broadly understood university life. The new authorities regulated the personnel policy almost at whim, removing from the university space those individuals considered dangerous and defiant towards the socialist system. Another, milder manifestation of disciplining scholars who did not agree to the introduction of Marxism at universities was the forced transfer of professors to other universities, sometimes hundreds of kilometers away.
 The article concerns one of the most outstanding Polish lawyers of the 20th century — Prof. Jan Gwiazdomorski, and more specifically, his official relocation from the Jagiellonian University to work at the University of Wrocław. This transfer was a form of repression applied by the authorities to the scholar who did not identify himself with the new, post-war Polish political system. On the other hand, the transfer weakened the scientific community of the Jagiellonian University, which also did not hold favorable views towards socialist reality.
 The article presents hitherto unknown information relating to the Wrocław period in the scientific and didactic career of this luminary of Polish civil law. The source basis of the work are archival materials — a query of Jan Gwiazdomarski’s personal files and minutes of the Faculty Councils located in the Archives of the University of Wrocław. The author, referring to the discussed phenomenon, uses a historical and retrospective approach (he examines the problem from a present-day perspective) and indicates the legal grounds for transferring the scholar to the University of Wrocław.

Impact of a third-year post-graduation preparation elective course

BackgroundLimited literature is available evaluating retrospective student perceptions of the utility of a postgraduate preparation elective at graduation and career onset and its impact on residency match rates. This project sought to explore the perceived usefulness of a third-year elective course from 2016 to 2019 on post-graduation preparation and to compare the match rate of students enrolled vs. not enrolled in the elective.ImpactThe majority of students pursuing residency programs (94%) perceived the elective course as helpful in navigating the postgraduate training process. Of the students pursuing other employment, 77.8% found the elective to be helpful in navigating the employment process. The top five activities identified as most useful included: cover letters, letters of intent, and thank you cards overview; curriculum vitae workshop; interviewing tips; mock interviews; and overview of postgraduate training opportunities. The match rate was not statistically different between those who completed the elective (60.7%) vs. all school graduates (64.7%) (P =.70).RecommendationsConsideration should be given to the topics to be included in this type of elective course depending on the targeted audience. Additionally, it may be more beneficial to introduce these types of topics and activities to students earlier in their didactic career and integrate them into different parts of the curriculum.DiscussionThe post-graduation preparation elective course was perceived positively by students in terms of preparing for their postgraduate plans. Limitations and confounders make it difficult to determine the true impact of this type of elective on successful residency match rates.

Can Orthodontic Informatics Combat the Pandemic Pitfalls?

The largest public health crisis of our time, COVID-19 has recklessly squandered many of the channelized healthcare facilities globally with execution of newer guidelines over the standard architectural norms. There has been unparalleled use of smartphones and internet services to bear the major pitfall- social distancing- especially for elective treatment services. This demands a new paradigm shift from offline to online doctor-patient, student-educator, researcher-researcher operations. This articles provides an insight into potential role of orthodontic informatics to provide a combined platform to generate a learning system that routinely collects, correlates, and analyzes data for developing artificial intelligence programs, lab exploratory systems, clinical decision support systems and health-information exchange systems. In order to develop this system, orthodontic analytic communities as start-ups for developing user-friendly programs must be encouraged, where orthodontic informatics itself can be taken up as a didactic career source.

Innovative Aspects of the PROFILES Professional Development Programme Dedicated to Science Teachers

A major direction of the educational reforms made in the last 20 years in Romania - same as in other countries from the European Union - was the restructuration of the initial and continuous training of the didactic personnel. In this respect, nowadays, the teacher must see and act beyond the horizons of the taught discipline, in order to form pupils’ competences which are necessary for life as a whole. Reported to the multiplication of the roles confined to those who embrace a didactic career, a corresponding psycho-pedagogical and methodical reformation must be made. This implies a demarche of redefining the necessary competences for the exertion of the didactic profession and an identification of new curricula resources, which are to be used as a support, in order to obtain those competences. At the same time, all those changes made in the field of initial and continuous training must be regarded in the context of unitary learning strategies, along the entire life. This paper proposes an analysis concerning the way in which the continuous professional development programmes are held in Romania, especially those dedicated to Science teachers (Chemistry, Physics and Biology). At the same time, in this context, it is presented the innovative aspect supposed by the CPD programme “PROFILES - Education through Sciences”, where the target group has been constituted of Science teachers from secondary schools of Dâmboviţa, Buzău and Teleorman Counties.

Occupational Stress as a Factor of (non) Orientation Teaching Profession

Thus this paper starts from the premise that if we are to increase the awareness regarding the issue of stress associated with the didactic career, than the interest for the didactic profession might increase as well and we would be able to improve, in general, the didactic performances. In this sense, we have analyzed the opinion of those taking part in a questionnaire and we have offered some solutions which might be useful in correcting the perception over the stress generated by the didactic activities.Using the latest studies made by the specialists in the field, we have also come up with some means to control it.

The Role of Motivation in the Development of School Teachers ‘Career

Nowadays, the problem of motivation for didactic career is an increasingly important issue both for researchers and education managers. The present paper is a study intended to offer a clear and pragmatic vision of work motivation for primary teachers in schools. The results are meant to help the specialists on teachers training to raise the degree of work motivation for teachers.The conclusion of the study is that teacher's motivation plays a key role in defining policies to attract, maintain and develop teachers career.

Organizing the Personal Reflections of Students – An Essential Element in Achieving the Education, and Training for the Didactic Career

The present study is an approach meant to encourage the teacher to organize and to participate with the students in reflective activities and also to organize his own reflections regarding what he is planning to do and what he has accomplished through that activity. In this sense, we emphasize the problems which are being raised by doing the above, and also the practical measures which can be taken so as to reach a certain result. Our paper's contribution will be to help the students to stimulate them to learn efficiently and actively.

Is there an Axiological Background Favoring the Initial Training in the Didactic Career for the Primary and Preschool Didactic Career?

By applying a questionnaire-based inquiry we have investigated a group of 40 subjects, students in the 1st year at Pedagogy of Primary and Preschool Education, Faculty of Sciences, “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău. The values that students believe in have not constituted, so far, the object of a direct research in Romanian higher education. The existence of an outlined set of values shared by the students in the 1st year at Pedagogy of Primary and Preschool Education may constitute an interesting issue from several perspectives. The formative, curricular and managerial ones come across as decisive in favoring a successful initial training in the field. The results obtained and their analysis has highlighted a series of interesting aspects that we shall present in the study. Also, they open generous perspectives in conducting a longitudinal study on the same topic.

Romanian Language Pre-service Teachers’ Training for Didactic Career

The aim of this study is that of trying to identify and group the main reasons for which pre-service Romanian language teachers (be they fresh graduates or experienced) obtain rather poor results at the national exam for filing a teaching position. For this purpose we undertake the theoretical findings concerning the main issues of preparing pre-service language teachers. Thus, we analyze the results obtained by 89 candidates who took the national exam for the filling a teaching position as teachers of Romanian language and literature starting from the premise that these results reflect the level of initial training from the perspective of the development of pedagogical competences. The results of the research indicate the necessity of taking some measures for the improvement of initial training for the teachers of Romanian language and literature from a pedagogical perspective with a view to obtaining better results at the national exams for the filling of a teaching position fact which will have a positive effect upon professional integration.

Managing the Developing Didactic Career of Beginning Teachers

Abstract The purpose of this research is to propose, implement and validate a training program focused on the development of career management competencies for beginning teachers. The starting point is an operational model that integrates seven categories of competencies: cognitive and meta-cognitive, methodological, communicational and relational, evaluative, psycho-social, career management, and ICT competences. In order to conduct the research, we have established the following objectives: to evaluate the level of development of career management competences of beginning teachers; to establish the design and course for a program of formative activities that will lead to the improvement of career management competences; and to perform a final evaluation of these career management competences. The main research method uses a formative psycho- pedagogical experimental design with repeated measurements (test – post test), analysis of the products of teachers’ activities (projects, competences portfolios), psycho-pedagogical observation, and statistical analysis. Statistical data obtained during the research show significant differences with respect to the results obtained by the beginning teachers at the evaluation applied at the end of the formative stage, compared to those obtained during the initial evaluation. The results of this research highlight the progress registered in developing certain capacities and skills for career management by participants in the training program. The data and ideas drawn from the research will be used to improve initial and continuous training programs for teachers.

A Study on the Relation between Locus of Control and Creative Attitudes in the Structure of Didactic Competence

The present study aims at analyzing the incidence of the creative attitudes and of locus of control i n the personality structure of the teachers and students preparing for the didactic career. In this sense we have supposed that locus of control correlates significantly with creative attitudes and their didactic experience. As working tools, we have used a Locus of Control Scale for measuring the internal, ambivalent and external orientation and a Creative Attitudes Questionnaire. The conclusions of the investigation on the implications of locus of control and of creative attitudes in the structure of didactic competence emphasized the fact that locus of control holds a certain significance in the structure of the educators’ personality and the creative a ttitudes supporting performances in the didactic activity are mediated by the internal/external orientation of behaviour.

The Structure and Dynamics of the Teacher's Empathic Behavior

The level of performances in the didactic career is determined by a multitude of factors and conditions. Empathic behavior, represents a characteristics of the interpersonal relation, depending on the manifestation level of the personality trait and on the social situations the individual comes in contact with. The objective of the paper is the determination of the empathic level of the teachers working at different educational, age and experience levels, as well as the identification of the significant correlations between the empathy level and the self-image. The conclusion emphasizes the fact that empathy is a personality trait, with components but also with relations among components, which means that the wherever structure can be approached, it activates the whole, leading to the optimization of the interpersonal relations.

A Double Perspective Outlook towards Didactic Career: The Aspirants to the Training Programme and the Ones Who Complete it

Professionalization concerning didactic career was, and still is a controversial concept, as shown by official documents. Through the present paper we attempt to clarify a segment of the “professionalization dilemmas”, starting with the “aspirants” aspirations to the didactic career. One of the adjacent questions of this dilemma may be thus formulated: is it appropriate to start from the professional standards of the teaching profession that already exist in order to cover the necessity of training, or is it necessary to take into consideration what these “aspirants, future teachers” aspire to? These are the authors’ concerns in the present paper.

Management training mentors for teaching practice-policy paper.

The present training policy concerning initial and continue formation domain of didactic staff undergoes deep changes. One of strategic principles of developing the formation system in present policy document of European Commission is the specialization of didactic career. For this, we have in view the predefining the residency period in didactic career by introducing the assistance and counseling system of probationer by the mentor’s staff of probation, the introduction of mentored system of probation being necessary.

BIG-FIVE and the problem of students’ orientation towards a didactic career

The necessity of the hereby study results from the fact that today, in Romania, the didactic profession/career is one of the least motivating for young graduates with Bachelor or Master studies. This situation generates serious questions regarding the value of the options, the significances and the quality of the preliminary evaluation of competences when entering the initial preparation/ training system for a didactic career. As concerns the hereby situation, we take into consideration the theoretical and practical curriculum of the training programs for students - future teachers – in the field of education sciences, especially for pre-primary and primary education. From the methodological perspective, the research develops ideas and practices regarding the value of the useful character of one of the most interesting questionnaires, namely the BIG FIVE, a research instrument less frequently applied in educational research in Romania, on student patterns – future candidates for the didactic profession. The empirical investigation data will offer us a minimum set of criteria destined for the validation of the vocational potential and for the application of personality landmarks that make up the basic and cross professional competences integrated to the teacher's status-roles. The approach perspective is a (neo) constructivist, functional one, correlative to other values obtained by using other applied psycho-pedagogical research techniques and instruments.