Today’s learning experiences are telling tales of tomorrow. They need to prepare learners for present and future challenges as well as for future living and working environments – which will be increasingly shaped by hybrid and virtual spaces and emerging developments of digital and societal transformation. Teachers and trainers play a crucial role in providing rich learning environments to learners and are at the same time faced with the challenges brought about by an increasing speed of technological development: how to embrace the potentials brought about by this transformation while addressing the related problems as a teacher or trainer in applied and practice-related learning contexts?

In this Lightning Talk, we want to present a competence framework for future teachers and trainers. Embedded within the framework are foundational principles rooted in Future Skills and a Future Work-Based Learning Teaching mindset. These principles underpin six core competences.

The competence framework suggests an empowering vision, with teachers and trainers not only replacing teaching strategies but rethinking and reevaluating them under the light of new potentials and developments – encouraging them to co-develop a future vision of learning together with learners. It addresses aspects such as inclusive and sustainable teaching and learning approaches – and aims at a co-creation of digitally enhanced teaching and learning experiences of learners and teachers. Consequently, there is a pronounced need for teachers and trainers to develop competences that allow to evolve educational settings, fostering learners' adeptness in digital and hybrid environments while also critically considering social and ethical aspects in co-creating today’s and future learning, working and living environments.
The framework has been developed within the DEAL with Digital WBL Erasmus+ initiative.