Training Of Pre-University Teachers In Order To Streamline The Transition Process To Online Activities

The conduct of teaching activities in Romanian educational institutions was based until March 2020 almost exclusively on traditional learning methods, namely they were organized face to face in a classroom. The sudden outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic shook the world and forced the education system in all parts of the world to switch to online teaching overnight. The school environment has been reluctant to take over the changes in technology, often emphasizing the risks of using them compared to its benefits, but in the crisis the existence of technology facilitated the transition when the only option was to move entirely to to an online teaching-learning system. Teachers were given the opportunity to rethink the methods by which the instructive-educational processes were carried out and to find a balance between their traditional role and the new roles assigned through digitization. In order to achieve this balance, teachers need to be trained for today's education. This article aims to analyze the factors that determine an effective transition to online activities and to explain the need for an interdependence between specialized, pedagogical and technological knowledge in the context of teacher training for online teaching - learning activities.