The Impact of Digitalization of Education on the Development of Key Teacher Competencies

The aim of the study is to identify the relationship between the digital competence of a higher school teacher and creativity, critical thinking, communicative, subject methodical, and communicative competence. The main research methods included testing to identify the level of digital competence, creativity, and critical thinking, as well as the interview to determine the level of subject methodological competence. The results of the study indicate that the medium level of the teacher competencies dominates. The level of teachers' digital, subject methodological, communicative competencies, creativity, and critical thinking decrease in persons with 16-25 years of work experience. Digitalization of education most significantly affects the development of communicative and subject methodological competence. The relationship between digitalization and professional competencies is more significant among teachers with 1-15 years of work experience. The obtained results can be used to improve existing educational programmes for teacher training. The prospects for further research include the creation and verification of programmes of formative experiments aimed at clarifying the causal relationship between the digitalization of education and the development of the professional competence of higher school teachers.