PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: UPGRADING PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS, AT TEACHERS

Nowadays, the need for broad horizons to a better understanding human development is increasingly more evident, for identifying those key points that could positively influence personal development and thus optimizing professional practice of teachers, meaning obtaining personal balance and professional optimization. By the present study is intended to present a track record after a semester working with teachers from pre-university system, high-school teachers enrolled in professional conversion program organized by the Faculty of Psychology and Human Social Sciences, of the University of Pitesti, Romania. Among the existent courses in the curricula's training program was also a personal development course named "the communication laboratory", a course which involved working with groups of teachers, for 2 hours per course, with weekly frequency. The work activity premises were centered on the specific bond existing between the person's inner world and his professional context of belonging, knowing that, most often, professional act is influenced by personal traits and dispositions. These study findings highlight the very positive results easily observable and assumed by the participants in this program, with direct effects at their personal balance and professional performance, drawing attention to the need to promote such programs of personal development with a deep psychologically specific. As a desideratum, these personal development programs should be implemented a large scale, offering to as many teachers from all educational systems, the opportunity to participate at such alternative learning activities. (C) 2017 Published by Future Academy