The teachers and their need for further education in didactics - An example from the Technology curricular area

The research in education shows a contradictory situation: although the Romanian teachers participate in many training courses, when students get to the end of compulsory education their results are disappointing, in both national and international recent evaluations. Out of the need to sort out this contradiction, we developed a Master program that should make available the latest teaching-learning strategies and methods to the teachers who are interested in the matter. The purpose of this study is to highlight the reasons why teachers prefer short and ineffective training courses, instead of attending a Master program. © 2009 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of Masterprof team