Transformation of teachers’ competences: why and what Is next?

Abstract

Today as never before, meeting our society’s challenges demands educational excellence. Reinvigorating the economy, achieving energy independence with alternative technologies and green jobs, and strengthening our health care system require a skilled population that is ready for the critical challenges we face. Also, the 21st century has introduced new imperatives into education practices, stimulated by increasing concern about global inequities and lack of fairness. The 21st century is described as an interconnected world where globalisation, information communication technology and knowledge explosion, against the background of which the importance of teachers’ professional activities, teachers’ competences and their change becomes apparent, because teachers today have to deal with the issues of education of knowledge, skills and values of future generations. The subject of this article is the transformation of teachers’ competencies. The aim of the article is to analyse the transformations of teachers’ competencies and the factors that determine them. The article discusses the conditions that determine the change of teachers’ competencies and their diversity in the world, the importance of the change of teachers’ competencies; changes in education are presented, which are determined by various social, technological, ecological and other conditions. Also, this article aims to answer the question – what transformations in the teachers’ competences and expression can be expected in the future. The analysis and insights in the article are based on the analysis of scientific literature and documents.