Evaluating Future Teacher Competencies in the Face of Contemporary Global Challenges: A Comprehensive Analysis

Abstract

A highly qualified teacher of the future should demonstrate to students the highest performance and expected results of their activities after completing the proposed tasks and activities. At the same time, the professional teacher of the future should take care of the adaptation of students and the fact of their diversity by changing teaching strategies and learning materials that are appropriate to the age, prior learning, cultural values, and individual needs of the educational program. The role of the teacher in the future is to ensure the formation and education of the personalities of new generations and their professional training within educational institutions, closely related to life, social and professional, moral, and civic activities. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to analyze the problems of forming the skills and personality traits of a teacher that would cause reverberations in students for many years after graduation. The work uses general scientific and special scientific research methods, adheres to the principles of objectivity, scientificity, specificity, and systematicity to argue for the normative reason, of updating the system of professional competencies in an increasingly globalized, multicultural, diverse, and complex environment marked by digital technologies and transformations. It is about the need to change the system of acquiring thorough knowledge to mobilize the professional achievements of teachers. This is the whole point of rewriting the common core of knowledge, skills, and culture envisioned by the Ukrainian education reform. Search engines have identified more than 100 articles on pedagogy. As a result of the selection and verification process, only 21 state-of-the-art sources from 2021-2022 were selected (given the novelty of the proposed scientific research). The results address the problem of professional competence development in European countries. The generalization of the characteristics of the teacher of the future in the context of the global challenges of our time is made based on the contrast of the experiences of the described countries and the general opinion of the participants in the relevant forum. Thus, the reference base of professional competencies for pedagogical and educational professions should reflect the developments in the training of teachers and pedagogical staff in the context of the new Ukrainian education system.