Teachers’ perspectives on developing their teaching career by attending non-formal training programmes

Abstract

There are many opportunities for professors to attend different training programmes. Some of them could be included in formal education and some of them in non-formal education. Therefore, in the present paper, we analyse the impact of the aforementioned non-formal continuous training programme on teachers’ evolution and what is their personality profile which can motivate them to be involved in this activity. In this sense, we conducted a longitudinal case study on an NGO in Romania which provides continuous training programmes. The results proved that those professors who are interested in this method of professional development are strongly and intrinsically motivated in didactic careers and are ready to sacrifice a lot of personal energy and resources to improve their professional and personal skills necessary in their work with students.

Keywords: Teaching career, continuous professional training, personal and professional development, socio-professional profile, teachers personality;