An Approach to Teachers’ Professional Competencies in The 21st Century

Abstract

The quality of a nation’s education and human resources depend much on its teaching workforce. Hence, training a teacher with adequate competencies is playing a critical role for country’s development. Recently, teacher's professional competencies and teacher's professional development have been receiving much attention. In seeking for orientation and innovations in teacher training process with the aim of developing professional competencies, studying and analyzing experiences from other countries can be seen as a important starting point. This paper presents the core competencies of Singaporean teachers, along with some analysis and evaluation for the Graduand and in-service teacher competencies framework. Thereby, the authors would like to bring a reference point of view for the development of teacher professional standards in Vietnam, as well as for the training and retraining of teachers today and the next few years, especially for the education renovation after 2015