Studia Universitatis Moldaviae. Stiinte ale educatiei

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Authors: Irina STOIANOVA

It is proposed to discuss the theoretical ideas of how the foreign language works in the context of research activities. The paper considers that educational research may be one of the means to attain educational goals of secondary schools in the Republic of Moldova. It is argued that educational research corresponds on the content and technologically to the competence approach in the primary curriculum. Educational and academic (scientific) research is different. The elements of learning search are presented at different stages of the lesson. Value of educational research is to create conditions conducive to the integrity and effective learning activities of the early age student.

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Authors: Natalia TOMA

In this article there is analyzed the problem of anxiety from retrospective perspective. The article focuses on the approach of C.Darwin – the main idea is that the state of anxiety represents an efficient mechanism of adaptation; on the approach of S.Freud – the idea is that the anguish is a conscious suffering; the approach of J.Tayler – who proposed the notion of "anxiety level". In the same time there is analyzed the concept of anxiety from social and behavioral points of view.

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Authors: Kassem BAHEEJ

There is an essential role of parental and social support on the achievements and success of students in all stages of education, high grades are mostly an apparent evidence of that support. In our research about the writing proficiency skill in English for Arab students in Israel at the age of 14, there was a clear evidence of the important role of parents in guiding and orientation of their children to do well in learning in general and in the acquisition of English as a foreign language in particular.

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Authors: Laura BASEL

The article deals with the problem of creating pedagogical conditions and pedagogical means in development of mo¬ti¬ves in foreign languages acquisition in order to encourage students become more involved and integrated in teaching process. The main attention is given to the elaborated system of psycho-pedagogical conditions and pedagogical means fosters not only communication skills, but also promotes active verbal interactions.

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Authors: Mariana ŢÎBULAC

This article analyses the role of educational opportunity in a time of globalisation, a new economy and life in a multi¬cultural society, and gives an epistemological and semantic account of the concept “intercultural education”, distingui¬shing it from multicultural and transcultural education. Starting with a historic overview of various conceptualisations of meetings/clashes among people with different linguistic, religious, cultural or ethnic features, distinctive theoretical elaborations are reviewed, above all in a European context and in the educational field. After outlining the development of intercultural education (main contents, methods and objectives, as well as limits), this article supports the thesis that education, in multiculturalism, and in an intercultural sense, is currently the most appropriate answer to globalisation and interdependence.

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Authors: Ludmila NOVAC

The learning platforms are very useful, convenient and appropriate to our days, they greatly supplement the tra¬di¬ti¬o¬nal learning methods and they help the teachers in their daily activity. Teachers learn best when they work together to solve common problems. Thus, it is very important to join the learning network of teacher leaders and get resources, tools, stra¬tegies, and access to committed colleagues willing to share their expertise and experience to develop solutions to the issues we are facing in the school and university.

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Authors: Hussam Samara WATTAD

There is a great deal of variety, ambiguity and lack of uniformity in the terminology used in the at-risk pu¬pils/ado¬les¬cence research. Resilience, risk and protective factors are major theme in this field, yet disagreements are evident in re¬gard to those theme. Social support of peers, teachers, mentors or significant adult is of great important for at-risk pu¬pils. Major risk factors are Poverty, destructive family dynamics and social exclusion.

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Authors: Ирина СТОЯНОВА

Processuality is an integrative component of the theory of the Curriculum is specified in the aspect of formation of exploratory behavior. Considered one of the approaches to development of basic universal education. Is proposed a typology of learning tasks of different levels. The challenge is to show a systematic and pedagogical justification for the formation of exploratory behavior in the achievement of a meta - learning objectives, which may be interesting for teachers not only a foreign language, but also the other Humanities.

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Authors: Stela GALEMBA

The article is tackling the issue of teaching staff performance management as a condition of the teaching staff’s mo¬ti¬vating strategy effectiveness. It is noted that the performance management is the process by which the institution creates the context in which every person is performing, using qualities, abilities and specific skills as much as possible. The idea for the planning, guidance, evaluation and further development of performance is a cyclical process that in¬cor¬porates two major specific performance management processes: the professional performance evaluation and the per¬sonal and professional development of teachers. The article states some suggestions for each of these teaching staff per¬¬formance management stages.

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Authors: Liliana POSŢAN

The article provides an analysis of policies and practices in the Republic of Moldova in the sphere of continuous edu¬cation at universities, of andragogidal dimensions of university education and it emphasizes on the formal education oppor¬tunities provided by universities to mature students. The article cited 5 sources of conceptual, policy and methodological nature of adult education researchers and many other electronic sources that show statistics and practices from the domain. As the result of analyses, we conclude that adult education at universities and andragogical particularities of higher edu¬cation derive from the judgments of organizational character of the educational system, as well as of psycho-social, de¬mographic, economic, and psycho-pedagogical nature.

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Authors: Efrat BARANETZ

This paper begins with the description of the Levinsky College Conference held on December 2012 and pre¬sen¬ted in¬no¬vative methodology and innovation in education; it also included a competition between technology start-up ventures in the field of education, and post event gatherings of roundtable discussions. The IAEA 39th Annual conference held on October 2013, focused on incorporating technology into testing programs. This essay describes two computer based asses¬sment programs testing collaborative Problem Solving Skills and Mathematics.

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Authors: Nizar SHIHADI

The subject of violence amongst children and teenagers keeps being raised for discussion times and again, especially in a background of incidents of extreme violence such as fights, involvement of teenagers in acts of murder, robberies or sexual violence. Natan [15] claims that recently, there are many reports in the media, on teenager violence in general and on violence in schools in particular. However, the essence of the problem is not necessarily in those extreme cases, but in involvement and daily exposure of teenagers to violence in different levels of severity, such as teasing, cursing, threats, boycotts, vandalism, extortion, pushing and fights.

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Authors: Cochava FARJUN

Much research issues regard to motivation refers to the motivation of students and the teacher's role in this process. Stu¬dies addressing motivation in terms of quantity and quality, gender differences, the relationship between time and mo¬tivation, learning and assessment etc. Motivation and motivators change over the time we live. In ourdays the mo¬ti¬va¬tion is based on providing autonomy and personal growth area to each student. The relationship between teacher mo¬ti¬vation and objectives of the education system (student achievement) presents motivation as a central component. It is al¬ready recognized that the vitality of an organization depends on the motivation of its employees. With the postmodern period, the motivation is generated awareness and choice derived from the reality of life that is dy¬namic and changing. Individuals control their actions and build their state.

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Authors: Aliona AFANAS

The article presents the problem of learning styles in educational activity, developed through various learning stra¬te¬gies, effective learning techniques, how to establish relationships with teachers and classmates. Learning style is a way of dealing with the task of identifying students with learning, instrumental or pragmatic guidance; thorough orientation; orientation towards acquisitions, all of which are key elements in the educational work of a head teacher.

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Authors: Maria PAVEL

This paper proposes the integrative model of the course Information Technology for students of the specialties of “Pedagogy in primary education”. It examines the characteristics and methods of implementation of the model from the perspective of the modern higher education.

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Authors: Ecaterina MOGA

This is a developing training. Welcome to any teacher and manager, especially for young professionals who will be mo¬tivated to develop their skills and personality traits that will allow them to gain real performance both in private and pu¬blic sectors. The training program validates durable truths and is an effective approach that includes training prin¬ci¬ples that ensure the cooperation and interrelation competence – a prerequisite in achieving professional success. Par¬ti¬ci¬pants will absorb a significant dose of wisdom, human understanding and practical experience. They will learn some spe¬cific techniques for self-knowledge, appropriate self-esteem and realistic expectations in order to ensure efficient per¬sonal, interpersonal and professional success. The training includes 15 training sessions, 120 minutes each, in which are concerned skills that lead to the formation and development of unique significance.

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Authors: Sondos SAIF

The grouping method was initiated in the United States in 1920 after World War I and the idea of separating the class pupils to several groupings has spread across the United States upon the implementation of intelligence tests. The grouping is determined according to the intelligence test: division of the children in a class into three levels: A, B and C. A low grouping brings about a negative effect upon the self-image of a pupil – a grouping by one method or another, can bring about an adverse effect upon the self-image of pupils, even by the mere fact of belonging to a low grouping. The contribution of the grouping method – the method allows for awarding equal opportunities to pupils by creating homo¬genous classes of weak pupils, which allows for giving personal treatment to each pupil, as here two significant pro¬blems in classes are being resolved, which are: the number of pupils in a class, whereas in the grouping method, there would be smaller groups of pupils who receive a more personal and special treatment, as well as the problem of he¬te¬rogeneity existing in a regular class. Principally, the grouping method was supposed to bring about an inclusion of pupils in the school and reduce and fight instances of exclusion which basically signifies the absence of equality that brings about a low self-image in pu¬pils. The contribution of the grouping method to achieving excellence by separation cannot be ignored, whereas se¬pa¬ra¬tion supports the value of excelling and even can bring it about. Parallel to excelling, the term of equality that many strive at, has been severely damaged and school principals face the difficult dilemma of excelling versus equality. The value of excelling is an elevated and important one, indeed its price is high and basically it is harmful to the prin¬¬ciple of equality and especially in low groupings , which to my estimation is not appropriate and therefore there is a need to search for methods of achieving excellence without adversely affecting the self-image in weak groupings.

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Authors: Viorelia LUNGU

Morality is in decline today due to a number of factors (political, social, and economic). Therefore, moral behaviour is not balanced by codes and standards, ethical, legal, political and administrative practice which are directed to reduce the gaps between what should be and what is person. Thus, one of the important conditions that must be achieved by a ge¬ne¬ra¬tion, by a nation to be able to assimilate new moral values, obtaining of authentic spiritual and material autonomy. How¬ever, the manifestation of moral behaviour is achieved when moral subject is engaged, simultaneously, to himself and to the world to which it belongs.

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Authors: Stela CEMORTAN

The author argues that one of the most important objectives of the socialization of children of early age is their pre¬pa¬ration for school. This objective can be achieved successfully by teachers using the modeling method. This method helps to establish a line of continuity between the game and learning activities. The proper use of this method directly con¬tri¬butes to the formation of school maturity, to the development of attention, perception, analysis and synthesis processes and logical thinking.

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Authors: Галина ДЫМОВСКАЯ

This article examines the actual questions of forming pupils social activity. The main attention is based on the organization of business game as a way of forming pupils' social activity. Also the article describes the functions of the game. It shows the scheme of economic game.

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Authors: Talia PERLSHTEIN

This research focuses on identifying the motivations for choosing teaching, the level of commitment and satisfaction from this choice of observant dance students. The data was collected with a structured questionnaire developed es¬pe¬cia¬lly for the research. According to the findings the questionnaire is valid. The intrinsic-educational and altruistic motivations were found to predict commitment to teaching. In addition, the socialization agents – family members and friends – were found to have an emotional influence, while teachers influence through modeling.