Abstract:

The Covid-19 crisis of the coronavirus has led to a change in business patterns in many areas. Educational institutions were able to quickly reorient and provide work remotely using digital technologies. Remote work is just one of the forms of work created by digitalisation. Digital solutions should not be seen as a one-off, COVID-19 crisis management tool, but as a systematic approach to digitization, as a solution to long-term competitiveness.

Digital tools offer a wide range of opportunities to improve teaching and learning processes. To do this, teachers need to understand and accept digital innovations, as well as develop pedagogical digital competence. This points to the need for digital transformation in teacher education. The main challenge of digital transformation is to change the way teachers think and do. Digital transformation in education is an important process of change, which is based on the change of study content, methods, forms of work organization, teaching aids for work in the digital educational environment.

The article analyzes the scientific literature and planning documents on digital transformation in teacher education and discusses recommendations for the development of teachers' pedagogical digital competence.

Keywords:

Digital competence, digital technologies, digital transformation, teachers’ education.