Modern Teacher Competencies

The Competencies of the Modern Teacher

• The study aims to define the competencies of modern teachers
• Research focused on students’ skills, teacher advancement, pedagogical culture and innovations, and teaching competencies for the 21st-century

Keywords

• Teaching and cultural competencies
• Talent, innovation, creativity
• Critical thinking and problem-solving

Modern Education

• Teachers need instructional skills, different from the past, to prepare students for the future
• Education has shifted to focus on life skills and independent knowledge acquisition
• Modern society needs culturally competent, talented, innovative, creative, skilled and critical thinkers

Skills for Students

• Students need skills to collaborate, make decisions, plan, manage time, listen, and communicate effectively
• 21st-century skills are vital to meet new teaching requirements

Teacher Competence

• Competency is used differently across contexts in education and job performance
• “Competency-based” teacher education requires teacher-trainees to show knowledge, skills, and values to complete the program

Characteristics of Competency

• A competency is made up of skills that enable its attainment and is linked to knowledge, skills, and attitude
• Competencies have a performance dimension making them observable and measurable
• Teaching competencies require varying amounts of knowledge, skill, and attitude
• Competence is viewed as the combination of knowledge, skills, and behavior that improve performance
• The Occupational Competency movement began in the 1960s by David McClelland.
• The movement focuses on values, traits, and motivations that distinguish outstanding performance
• The term appeared in Craig C. Lundberg's 1970 article, "Planning the Executive Development Program"
• David McClelland's 1973 treatise, "Testing for Competence Rather than for Intelligence" also included the term

Student Skills for Communication and Personal Development

• Thinking and Problem-Solving: logical thinking, estimating, guessing, turning problems into opportunities
• Self Direction and Learning: developing memory, being assertive, making personal changes
• Collaboration: persuading others, working in a team, discussing alternatives, reaching compromises
• Information and Research: understanding graphs, taking notes, writing and reporting
• Organization and Planning: making plans, managing time, setting goals

Teaching Competencies Defined

• Competency involves drawing on skills and attitudes to meet complex demands, essential for educators
• Teachers need many competencies to face challenges
• Teaching competency is key to an effective training process for the welfare of countries and the world
• The central figures are teachers who need preparation, erudition, and performance quality for training success
• Teaching and life-long learning competencies include performing duties, good health and communication, and leadership

Levels of Teacher Professional Growth

• Pedagogical ability: detailed subject knowledge
• Pedagogical skill: perfected teaching skill
• Pedagogical creativity: implementing new methods
• Pedagogical innovation: incorporating progressive ideas and principles
• The development of culturally competent teachers is urgent
• Pedagogical culture includes axiological, technological, and heuristic components

Pedagogical Culture Components

• Axiological: acceptance of pedagogical work values
• Technological: facilitates solving pedagogical tasks
• Heuristic: creative part involving goals and self-critique

Pedagogical Innovations

• Educational innovation is gaining attention globally, aiming to change educational goals and practices
• ICT can be used to leverage or support innovations, fundamentally changing learning experiences
• Innovation improves teaching, increases motivation and material studied, accelerates training, and improves time management
• Introduction of progressive methods, active teaching, and new training technologies are regular spheres of innovation
• Genuine innovations emerge from knowledge of human development that provides new approaches and practical technologies
• Replacing educational paradigms is required
• Pedagogical experience is key for competent teachers, to be transferred to others and reproduced in training without extra time

21st Century Competencies

• Knowledge, skills, and attitudes for competitiveness in the workforce
• Teacher preparation should incorporate training in teaching
• Teachers need to provide technologically supported learning opportunities

21st Century Teaching Competencies

• Leadership: in the classroom by evaluating student progress with data, developing plans, maintaining a safe classroom and behaviour
• School Leadership: collaborative activities identifying elements of school improvement, plus using data to identify needs
• Teaching Profession Leadership: participating in development and professional networks
• Advocacy: implementing policies positively affecting student learning
• High ethical standards

Environment and Diversity

• Provide a positive, nurturing environment for each child
• Embracing diversity: counteract stereotypes, acknowledge cultures, incorporate different points of view, plus understand and planning
• Treating students as individuals: maintain high expectation environments
• Adapting to needs: cooperate with specialists and using resources to support learning, and research-verified strategies
• Collaborating: families of students and other significant adults.

Teacher Content Knowledge

• Developing lessons based on courses, and integrating literacy instruction across content areas
• Honor content: demonstrate specialty knowledge and encourage students to investigate
• Recognizing interconnectedness: show knowledge by relating subjects, and relating global awareness
• Instruction Relevance: integrating instructions with 21st-century skills and content

Facilitating Learning

• Knowledge of learning happens appropriate levels of intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development
• Planning instruction responsive to cultural differences and individual learning needs
• Show acumen and versatility for meeting the needs of all students
• Awareness of technology's potential to enhance learning and integrate technology to maximize learning
• Help students grow: integrate instruction to develop processes and strategies for critical thinking and problem solving
• Help students work in teams: organize learning teams for cooperation and student leadership
• Reach students: using a variety of methods to communicate effectively
• Best assess what students have learned: using multiple indicators to monitor and evaluate progress and inform instruction

Teacher Reflection

• Analyze student learning: using data to inform what can be done to improve
• Growth and goals: participating in recommended activities for professional learning
• Complex function: using research-verified approaches to improve teaching

Educator Competencies

• Effective classroom management for efficiency, discipline, teamwork, planning, communication, focus, evaluation, and adjustments
• Organize time, space, and activities for engagement
• Effective teaching practices representing viewpoints, theories, ways of knowing and subjects
• Incorporate methods to develop critical thinking, problem solving, and performance
• Incorporate assessments: tests responses, quizzes, assignments, performances, projects, and tests to understand learning
• Use assessment strategies to create self-awareness of strengths and needs to encourage goals
• Technology skills: know when and how to use current levels of educational technology to maximize learning