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November 2019 - October 2020
CRISTINA TRIPON teaches courses and seminars on Fundamentals of Education, Curriculum Theory, Instruction, and Evaluation Theory, at the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Teacher Training and Social Sciences Department, Romania. She received her Ph.D. and MA from the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
Her research interests cover aspects across teacher training, competencies for the 21st century, school learning and alternative methods of teaching, curriculum development. She has several publications that reveal these interests in the educational sciences, research papers that are indexed scientific databases.
SURVIVAL SKILLS FOR MODERN TEACHERS-BUILDING CRITICAL THINKING POWER
Despite national and international strategies, a large number of children are facing challenging challenges due to too rapid changes in the Romanian education system. It formally ensures that every child starting school today can successfully adapt to the labor market over 20 years. In order for this to be viable, economic growth and social development should be closely linked to the skills that the population has, it should be an important objective of education. But there is a problem, namely that a large number of future employees will have jobs that have not yet been invented.
The data provided by the OECD (2012) alert the situation to the fact that low performance at the level of creative problem solving problems such as problem solving and critical thinking is correlated in Romania, in the 15-year-olds ( the level of secondary education included in the compulsory education ) to a moderate extent with socio-economic and demographic factors (there is only 19.3% correlation between the socio-economic status of Romanian pupils and their performance in the PISA-2012 math test). This problem is a serious one and demonstrates that poor performance is not due solely to poverty or disadvantaged backgrounds, but directly to the inadequacy of the skills developed by students(pupils) in mass education with the needs of the labor market forces.