The article presents the results of a pedagogical research carried out in the framework of the existing process of training teaching staff in the Republic of Moldova, aimed at assessing the appropriateness of certain university and post-university programmes for the requirement of reconfiguring the teaching process and the training of staff from the perspective of professional skills standards. The author highlights certain deficiencies in the current training process, puts forward proposals for improving existing standards, and suggests the need for setting a profile of skills for educators, which the latter should acquire throughout their professional tenure, and as part of which the skill of communication in teaching would feature prominently, as the main skill which fundamentally influences the development of children's communication.