Cariera didactică trece printr-o perioadă de multiple transformări, marea lor majoritate fiind determinate de globalizarea şi europenizarea la care ţara noastră este parte, de necesitatea armonizării sistemului de învăţământ cu cerinţele pieţei muncii europene, dar şi de schimbările paradigmelor educaţionale, politice, sociale, economice şi axiologice. Toate acestea presupun creşterea continuă a calităţii sistemului educaţional, vizând în continuare profesionalizarea carierei didactice, prin implementarea standardelor profesionale în procesul de formare a viitorilor educatori. Studiul de faţă, prin trecerea ȋn revistä a principalelor definiţii şi caracteristici, se referă la identificarea şi examinarea factorilor care ar putea influenţa cariera de succes în învățământ.

The teaching career is going through a period of multiple transformations, the vast majority of them being determined by the globalization and Europeanization to which our country is a part, by the need to harmonize the education system with the requirements of the European labor market, but also by the changes of the educational, political, social, economic and axiological paradigms. All these imply the continuous increase of the quality of the educational system, aiming further at the professionalization of the teaching career, by implementing professional standards in the process of training future educators. The present study, by revisiting the main definitions and characteristics, refers to the identification and examination of the factors that could influence the successful career in education.