Professional Competencies in TVET: Framework, Indicators and Assessment Instrument

This chapter starts with a discussion of the challenges in and need for developing TVET teachers’ digital teaching competencies. Informed by existing research and practices in developing professional competencies for teachers, in particular for TVET teachers, we then propose a framework that identifies core competencies required of in-service TVET teachers and practitioners in the digital age in Sect. 3.2. In Sect. 3.3, this framework is further expanded by the proposal of indicators for each of the proposed core competencies, which form the basis for an instrument developed for assessing these competencies. Section 3.4 suggests ways of how the framework, indicators, and assessment instrument can be used to guide and support TVET teachers’ professional development.