Teaching competencies in the 21stcentury facing the virtuality of education in light of Covid-19

Abstract

The virtuality of education is a topic that already has a long history, since it began with distance education until it reached what we currently know as virtual education. However, this advance was conceived for those who, due to multiple circumstances, could not be trained by the traditional method, allowing for the generation of a space of great importance for these people who would thus not lose the possibility of being educated.

However, given the current conditions of the world and the changes that were abruptly introduced in life following the COVID-19 pandemic, virtuality is no longer an option but a reality, which apparently day by day, is going to position itself more, to the point of including the youngest in this process. This situation demands a change, reconditioning, restructuring and optimization of teaching competencies as stated in the E2030 agenda: education and skills for the 21st century.

In this order of ideas, the purpose of this article is to show the pertinent needs of teaching competencies, which must be strengthened for the changes that education has undergone and that teachers must respond to, regardless of the level of training to which they are directed. In this way, the country will continue to respond to the goals of quality and competitiveness in the global village of knowledge.

The above is structured from a qualitative methodological design with a documentary technique, through which it seeks to achieve the relevant information to set the parameters which must be followed to meet the demands of today’s world in the face of what is being experienced with the first global pandemic.