Type of Publication: Article in Collected Edition

Informatics Competencies for All Teachers - Development of Recommendations for Teacher Education

Author(s):

Brinda, Torsten; Diethelm, Ira; Dittert, Nadine; Humbert, Ludger; Kramer, Matthias; Losch, Daniel; Schmitz, Denise

Editor:

Leahy, Margaret; Reffay, Christophe

Title of Anthology:

Digitally Transformed Education: Are We There Yet?

pages:

143-154

Publisher:

Springer Nature Switzerland

Location(s):

Cham

Publication Date:

2025

ISBN:

978-3-031-88744-4

Citation:

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Abstract

As a result of the advancing digital transformation in education, teachers are encountering informatics systems in more and more areas of their professional contexts. Thus, they are faced with decision-making situations and related questions about informatics systems that require basic informatics competencies. In Germany, a number of projects have emerged in recent years aiming at informatics competency development of all students in teacher education, regardless of their school type or subject, either in teacher degree study programmes at universities or in in-service teacher training workshops. In these projects, courses were developed and piloted for a basic informatics education of non-informatics teachers. Starting from these projects, a nationwide working group of the German Informatics society dedicated itself to the task of compiling recommendations for a basic informatics education of all current and future teachers in a framework. Typical teacher activities related to digitization were elaborated using the persona method to illustrate competent teacher behaviour also from an informatics perspective and afterwards subjected to an informatics competency analysis. The resulting set of competencies was then compiled into a framework and published as official recommendations by the German Informatics society. This paper describes the development process of the recommendations for teacher education and suggests concrete actions for their implementation.