ADVANTAGES AND LIMITS OF THE ACTUAL SYSTEM FOR EVALUATION OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES AMONG BEGINNING TEACHERS.

The approach of analyzing the actual system for evaluation and certification the studies for the didactical career must start with preliminary conditions which lead toward certification, namely from the actual programs of initial training for teachers, including: goals of training, competences, the curricula and the strategies of teaching - learning - evaluating. Our study intends to analyze the actual model of evaluating the professional competences of beginning teachers through the definitive exam in educational system. The comparative analysis of several models of certification for teachers, based on professional standards (USA, France, Great Britain, and Romania) offers us the possibility of identifying common and different elements in establishing „the reference point of competences and qualities of the teacher”. The research was undertaken on a sample of 80 Sports teachers and aimed the following goals: * Identifying the aspects of continuity between the program of initial training of future teachers and the probation time; * Establishing possible correlations regarding the criteria and indicators for evaluating the professional competences of beginning teachers, licensed in Sports, during the special inspection and of those aimed within the definitive exam in educational system; * Pointing out the advantages and limits of the actual system for initial training of teachers and of the certifying the competences, also of passing the definitive exam in the educational system; * Suggesting the possible methodology of certifying the competences for beginning teachers and of passing the definitive exam in the educational system, including techniques and instruments validated by the educational practice and by domain researches undertaken on a global level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]