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.