"Schools must be nothing else but workshops where everybody has an activity. This is the only way for everyone to understand the truth that by teaching others we teach ourselves, too."
(Jan Amos Comenius, Didactica Magna)     

The tasks and the functions of The House of the Teaching Staff

The House of the Teaching Staff, a connected unit of the pre-university education system, functions in conformity with the Law of Education nr.84/1995 and according to the Law of the Teaching Staff Regulations nr.128/1997. The organization and functional statutes was approved by MEC -nr.4897/31.10.2001. The House of the Teaching Staff is an institution that has its own juridical personality, residence, patrimony, sigle and seal. It is administratively under the authority and control of The General Management of Estimation, Prognostication and Development and from the point of view of the permanent improvement it is subordinated to the General Direction of the Permanent Education and Improvement of the Teaching Staff.

OBJECTIVES: The improvement of the teaching staff for a modern qualitative education, in conformity with the  international demands, the motivation  of formating being based on a partnership of dialogue.

TASKS: This institution  wants to promote a new flexibility in thinking, the growth of the quality, a new efficiency for the instructive-educative activity with new formative and informative aspects. The education for and about Europe trains us to become European citizens, to respect the European values: peace, democracy, equality, solidarity, unity, pluralism, human dignity, security, tolerance, indiscrimination without neglecting the values of our own culture.

THE COMPETENCES OF THE HOUSE OF THE TEACHING STAFF FROM SATU MARE

-to organize programmes for the permanent teaching staff ' s improvement and for the auxiliary teaching staff,too.
-to be a source of innovation, examination and permanent improvement of the teaching staff and the educational managers. -to be a centre of information and documentation for the whole teaching staff.
-to be a centre of initiation and organization of scientific, methodical and cultural activities.
-to publish different periodicals and to diffuse books.
-to have an advisory role for those who assure the management of the processes of personal and organizational development.
-to be a methodological centre for the librarians and for those who like to do a documentary work.
-to assure educational marketing: the analysis of the improvement needs, the defining of the offers-e.g. the offer for the continuous improvement programme-, their promotion and their spreading.
-to be a data bank for the human resources in the main domains /curriculum/estimation/management etc./  on one hand and school inspectors responsable for the continuous improvement, advisers and experts on the other hand.
-to be a centre for the organization of spare time activities, thematic trips, summer schools, jubilee and traditional festivities. -to organize instructive programmes for different jobs in close co-operation with AJOFM and other economic agents.

In order to fulfil all these tasks  the house of the teaching staff co-operates both with experts from universities, colleges, highschools , institutions authorized by MEC,and The General Direction for Permanent Education and Permanent Improvement of the Teaching Staff. All the improvement programmes will be authorized by MEC. It can also have partnerships with all kinds of schools, research institutions, county agencies,  professional scientific societies, libraries, govermental and non-governmental organizations from Romania and abroad connected with the educational system.
All the activities are held in schools. They are un-political and in accordance with lae.

The Documentary and Informative Centre -  the aim, functions and conditions of working

Art.1. The resource, documentary and informative centre -CDI -can offer the students, the teaching staff and the local community a space where they can inform, communicate and improve their knowledge, a laboratory where they can experience the new educational technology, a cultural centre and a place for meetings.
Art.2. CDI participates to the implementation of the educational politics at different stages of study, profiles and specializations and supports the achievement of the tasks stipulated in the reformative process of the Romanian educational system.
Art.3. CDI offers equal chances for all the students from the country side or from urban areas, with different cultural,economic and social conditions, placing at their disposal the necessary documents and a very well qualified staff.
Art.4. CDI encourages the access to culture and documentation for all students, teachers and local community members, replacing the school in the centre of the local community.
Art.5. Through all its activities, CDI draws the attention upon the priorities of  school,their fulfilment in co-operation with all the partners involved in school and extraschool activity, adjusting its national educational politics to the specific needs of the school.
Art.6. CDI carries on its activity apart from any other political or ideological preoccupations.
Art.7. CDI functions in all the educational units: pre-elementary, primary, secondary, vocational and higher  education.
Art.8. CDI  function as an entity for the educational institution to which it belongs, through the integration and changing of the school library.
Art.9. CDI has the following functions: informing function, pedagogical function, school/vocational  orientation, communication, technical, recreative function.
Art.10. CDI can be helped by the Council of CDI, co-ordinated by the school manager. This Council is formed by a teacher responsable for the documentation, teachers that form the educative team, students, different representatives of the local community. 
Art.11.  CDI obeys all the MEC eligible  criteria.
Art.12. In order to answer all the needs of the users, CDI must have  at least ten documents for a user.
Art.13.  CDI must have an adequate location inside the school  _well lit up, hospitable and big enough  for at least 10% from the total school number of the students.
Art.14 The material  resources  by the local community , MEC and other  ministries through school inspectorates or schools. It also can  be legally financed by sponsors.