HOW TO EVALUATE TEACHERS' PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE

Teachers' professional competence covers the qualities that teachers need in order to meet the demands of their profession. The evaluation process, trying to measure in some way a level of teachers' professional competence, is very difficult. There are different ways based on which the evaluation can be done (e.g. portfolios, teacher's written preparations to the lessons) but actually teachers' professionality can be demonstrated and proved only in a practical way, in practice. The paper presents preliminary results of a research purpose of which is to design a set of evaluation tools applicable to evaluate quality and qualification of teachers' teaching performance.