New professional standards for future-oriented teachers: the teff Academy model

Initial Teacher Education and Teachers’ Professional Development are considered strategic issues at a global level to ensure qualified teachers and high-quality education systems. The paper presents a model designed by the Erasmus+ Teacher Education for a Future in Flux (teff) Academy to provide teachers with training and professional development opportunities oriented towards professional standards, focusing on digitalisation, sustainability, diversity and inclusion, and well-being. The design process has entailed the following steps: selection of professional standards based on literature and European competence frameworks (if any); identification of Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) addressed towards the achievement of the professional standards; design of teaching and learning methods to achieve ILOs and of assessment methods and tools. The paper will present the detailed design process and offer concrete examples of professional standards and defined ILOs focused on digital skills, sustainability, diversity and inclusion, and well-being.