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Professional Education: Methodology, Theory and Technologies

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Theoretical foundations for the development of digital skills of vocational education teachers: Innovative tools, integrative approaches

Yevhen Kuznietsov
Retrieved from Vol. 11, No. 1, 2025 Pages 57–69
Received
23.10.2024
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18.02.2025
Accepted
21.03.2025
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Abstract

The digital transformation of education is a key factor in professional training, as it fundamentally reshapes approaches to teacher preparation and transforms educational paradigms. The relevance of this study is driven by the need to adapt professional education to the challenges of war, national reconstruction, and European integration, necessitating the development of new digital skills. The study aimed to analyse the theoretical foundations of developing digital skills among vocational education teachers, their essence, structure, and the impact of innovative tools on the quality of teacher training in professional education. The research materials included the professional standards “Vocational Education Teacher” and “Higher Education Lecturer”, academic articles dedicated to the digitalisation of education, and interactive tools such as cloud services, immersive technologies, and automated robotic systems. The research methods encompassed a review of scientific sources, interpretation, comparison, systematisation, and content analysis. The study’s results included a comparative analysis of professional standards, the identification of common and distinct requirements for digital skills, and the determination of areas for their improvement. It was found that teachers’ digital skills integrate technological, informational-analytical, ethical, communicative, and organisational components that ensure the effective use of digital resources to achieve educational goals. The essence and structure of digital skills were systematised, distinguishing them into basic, specialised, and immersive categories. The trends in education digitalisation were analysed, covering the use of cloud services, STEM methodologies, and automated robotic systems, while the impact of interactive simulations, virtual laboratories, and learning management systems on the quality of the educational process was examined. The study proposed the integration of competency-based, educational, technological, and pedagogical approaches for the harmonious development of teachers’ digital skills and their adaptation to current challenges. The concept of innovative tools has been developed. The practical significance of the study lies in the improvement of teaching by highly digitalised vocational education teachers, the modernisation of educational programs, and the enhancement of teacher training for European-integrated professional work in the context of rapidly advancing digital transformation

Keywords

competency-based approach; vocational training; digital culture; STEM methods; adaptive learning; education modernisation; European integration

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Suggested citation

Kuznietsov, Ye. (2025). Theoretical foundations for the development of digital skills of vocational education teachers: Innovative tools, integrative approaches. Professional Education: Methodology, Theory and Technologies, 11(1), 57-69. https://doi.org/10.69587/pemtt/1.2025.57