Professional and transversal competences of future teachers for preschool and primary school education

Through the HRD strategic project "Development of an operational system of qualifications in higher education in Romania" (DOCIS), there were conducted several activities, including the implementation of the National Higher Education Qualifications Framework (NQF) through the specific scale description of qualifications and operationalization of the National Register of Qualifications in Higher Education (RNCIS). The project aimed, among others, the development of a competence scale for Education Sciences, major Pedagogy of Preschool and Primary School (PPSP). Through this article, we want to present the process of conceiving a specific grid for major PPSP and the result of this process. The development methodology for PPSP competence scale had several stages - a framework grid conceived by the management team experts, research, working for a draft document, consulting of the institutions involved in pre-service and in-service teacher training, the beneficiaries of these processes (school inspectorates, teachers'professional house, schools, kindergartens, professional organisations etc.), trade unions, researchers and practitioners with expertise in education. After all these, it was a stage for re-designing the grid by consulting the partners, another step to align the grid to the project requirements, such as statements of three common professional competences to the whole education area and then it was the validation stage. Finally, the grid was integrated into RNCIS. The grid contains six professional competences and three transversal competences, accompanied by level statements for each competence and standards of minimum performance for the assessment of each competence. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd.