Competenţa pedagogică şi performanţele profesionale
Teaching Competence and Professional Abilities

Summary/Abstract: The teaching competence is know to be, generally speaking, the ability of a teacher to formulate criticism over a teaching matter, on the basis of a deep understanding of the teaching phenomenon’s inner laws and relations; on a specific subject, it refers to the ability of a person to carry out, on a certain proficiency level, all the work targets specific to the teaching profession. The concept of „teaching competence” is more and more used as a minimal professional standard, frequently stated by law, at which level a person must rise in order for the society to be protected from the danger which consists in this job being done by insufficiently trained staff. As experience is gained and pedagogical capacity is developed, a person gains also in teaching craftsmanship. The teaching craftsmanship refers to a superior step in developing an initial „teaching competence” and to a „high level of competence, reached through practice, capable of getting results on the expert level. (Houston R. W.). At this level of performance, the teacher is capable of identifying, when dealing with real situations, the information and acts according to an innovative manner in order to solve the problems brought about by the specific situation – when the method algorithms become insufficient. Though, this innovative spirit is seconded by the capacity to grant legitimacy for the initial teaching practices, all this being, through their theoretical justification, meaning them being based on the conclusions of the research done in the field of education.

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