Mihaela Badea, Assoc. Prof. Ph. D., is the Head of the Teacher Training Department of the Petroleum – Gas University of Ploiesti, where she lectures on Romanian Language Teaching, English Language Teaching and Pedagogy. She also teaches Methods of Language Education Activities and the Methodology of Romanian Language and Literature for Young Children to BA students enrolled in the Pedagogy of Primary and Pre-School Education program. She holds a Ph. D. in Education Sciences from the University of Bucharest, her Ph. D. dissertation being on “Disruptive Behavior at Academic Level” and she is involved in national and international research projects, her research concerns being materialized in various studies published in Romania and abroad.