Motivation for Career in Teenagers

AbstractCareer motivation is an important field of study in the construction of sustainable society. Identify and develop intimate mechanisms that shape career choices by teenagers becomes a strong indicator of how society as a whole proves its effectiveness. Given crossing a prolonged crisis which calls into question the dominant social structural elements, unclear coherent and consistent process of career management in adolescents can lead to premature exhaustion of their involvement in learned helplessness phenomena, ambiguity and professional failure. There is also the risk of not achieving career maturation phenomenon which can lead to phenomena misfit search and permanent redefinition of the role of teenager – now reached adult – in social landscape. The paper aims to analyze and define the phenomenon of career choice motivation to intrinsic- extrinsic dimension (the intrinsic dimension by reference to the orientation towards reality and the need to experience stimulation, and matters extrinsic referring to extrinsic motivation identified, etc). This can provide an appropriate response, reported on the career management paradigm in this age group

Comparative Study Regarding Communication Styles of The Students

AbstractThe communication style is an indicator of a pattern of a person organises his interpersonal relationships. In fact, the style of communication is a way which shows how the pupils see and judge the information around them. According to these, the teachers, families can improve their interactions. The art of effective communication should not just stop at the correct use of language, but also at other forms of communication. We have proposed to present a theoretical and practical approach about how the gender of pupils influences communication, with the objective of preventing conflicting style. The method used is a questionnaire of the Romanian psychologist Solomon Marcus. It includes four styles–aggressive, assertive, persuasive and passive. The participants are 60 pupils, equal numbers of girls and boys, 12- 14 years old, from schools in Bucharest. We used statistical t test to see the differences between boys and girls. We also wanted to see if preadolescents already have a pattern of aggresivity or passiveness. The research findings coming according to recent studies, there is a need among students to create an orientation towards interpersonal communication for success in the future and for the formation of human society. The teacher must realize the importance of communication in their relationships with students and encourage the development of quality communication skills to help children communicate better in the future. Communication skills are very important for the future personality of the young person

Teacher Profile in Romania: Defining Features and Priorities of the Training Programs in Teaching Career

AbstractStudy aims at presenting the main trends of elaborating of a possible profile of teaching staff and introduction of these overriding in the initial and continuous training programs for teachers. The results of the study were obtained by applying survey based on a questionnaire. Study included a total of 564 teachers at national level. The results revealed outlining some dominant traits of today's teachers: the central element is the patience and the principal element of risk is bureaucratization of the education system which leads to a reduction of the practice importance and of labor in the department of the teacher. Continuing training is both a challenge and a necessity for teachers, with a view to increase their professionalism, update and deepen their knowledge through the development of the profession

The Profile of the Teaching Profession – Empirical Reflections on the Development of the Competences of University Teachers

AbstractIn this article we have proposed to present a theoretical and practical approach to the teaching profession, based on analysis competencies, which should hold them a good university teacher in a globalized and competitive world. The results of the study were obtained by applying a written questionnaire to subjects who work in different universities from Romania and Spain. The study included a total of 485 people from four universities in Spain and four universities in Romania. The results obtained by analyzing the responses of the subjects included in our sample have showed that both groups of teachers – from Romania an Spain – have the same opinions regarding the competencies which should hold them a good university teacher but were registered significant mean differences regarding transversal competencies dimension (p=0,002, p< 0,05). We believe that the professional perfection and development are the sources of a professional continuum, which makes educational career rolling laws and is subject to management resources, mobility needs, and flexibility of the teaching staff

The Professional Mobility of Teachers - new tendencies in the global society

AbstractThe teaching career remains a difficult issue in the context of the professional mobility in a diverse Europe with an open labour market. Within the dynamics of nowadays society we have to ask ourselves if Romanian teachers and educators are ready for the growing mobility. In order to discuss these aspects we refer to two of our researches: one was carried out in a COPE project while the other is a revised longitudinal research (2009) that was done ten years ago for the first time. As a result we propose a model to re-dimension the competences for the European educator. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of Masterprof tea

BRAIN Journal - The Status of Positive Psychology Strengths within the Romanian School in the Digital Society

ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to identify the possible correlations between the strengths that are taught in school and those which are necessary for reaching personal success. In order to test the extent to which these strengths correlate, we applied a psychological-assessment tool composed of 24 strengths with a Likert-type response scale. The subjects selected for this research were 100 teachers from Romania, both male and female. The results were processed in SPSS Statistics, where we also calculated Pearson's correlation coefficient. After analyzing the descriptive statistics and the correlation coefficient we noticed that the "Vitality" strength showed a statistically significant negative correlation between the two groups, therefore it is not taught in school but it is considered important for achieving personal success. The "Citizenship" strength showed a statistically significant positive correlation, being concurrently promoted in school and important in achieving success. The neuro-linguistic reprogramming of a young individual will need a considerable effort, first of all as regards being aware of the values which render his well-being, and secondly as regards his orientation towards these values, which as it seems he was not at all oriented to. The new student profile of today’s society, also known as the digital native, needs to assimilate a full set of positive psychology values in order to create a complete model of success for nowadays’ world