Teacher Competency Roadmap Workshop

Pilot Runner: ReSkills Training

Teacher Competency Roadmap Workshop is a pilot led by ReSkills Training that introduces the CYANOTYPES Framework to pre-service teachers studying early childhood education and primary school teaching at the Faculties of Education in İzmir. The pilot aims to empower teacher candidates by introducing them to creative competencies and demonstrating how the CYANOTYPES Framework can be used within their educational design projects.

Aims of the pilot

This pilot aims to introduce teacher candidates studying early childhood education and primary school teaching at the Faculties of Education in İzmir to creative competencies. Using the CYANOTYPES Framework, the pilot seeks to empower teacher candidates by introducing them to the framework for use in their educational design projects. Participants will understand the CYANOTYPES Framework and develop awareness of its practical application in their learning design processes.

The pilot focuses on the competencies within the CYANOTYPES Framework’s E Cluster (Transformative Competencies), aiming to raise awareness among teacher candidates regarding this set of transformative competencies relevant to the creative sectors and to help them recognise how to utilise these competencies in their learning designs.

Activities undertaken

The pilot consists of a 60-minute experiential workshop designed within the context of the lifelong learning philosophy.

Activities include brief information sharing on the CYANOTYPES framework and the E Cluster, a group work session designing a project using the Impact Canvas and the competencies, and a final evaluation.

The primary participants are 10–20 pre-service teachers studying early childhood education and primary school teaching at the Faculties of Education. The pilot also engages secondary stakeholders through the Teacher-to-Teacher Experience Sharing Symposium, an experience-sharing symposium aimed at creating professional awareness, and the Teacher’s Club, a social learning environment that fosters awareness by sharing and multiplying the professional and personal experiences of educators with a curiosity for lifelong learning.

Outcomes and early learning

The pilot is expected to increase participants’ awareness of creative competences and their relevance for educational design. By working with the CYANOTYPES Framework in a practical setting, pre-service teachers gain experience in applying competence-based thinking to the development of learning activities and projects.

A key learning challenge was that the concept of “competence” was not yet well known among prospective teachers. This means the pilot did important groundwork, but future versions will need more time, clearer terminology and practical examples to help participants connect the framework to their teaching realities.

Added Value

The pilot is valuable because it brings CYANOTYPES into teacher education, where creative competences can influence how future educators design learning experiences for children. Its strength lies in making regenerative competences visible to prospective teachers and showing that creativity is not only an arts-sector concern, but also a foundation for problem framing, ethical thinking, empathy and actionable futures in education. 

Possible policy recommendations

This pilot suggests that teacher education policy and lifelong learning providers should support creative competence development for prospective teachers, especially in early childhood and primary education. If teachers are expected to nurture creativity, problem-solving, collaboration and future-oriented thinking in children, they also need structured opportunities to experience these competences themselves during their own training.

Policy support could focus on integrating competence-based creative learning into teacher education, developing ready-made canvas templates for different education levels and sectors, and funding longer experiential workshops that combine theory, practice and reflection. The pilot also shows the importance of localising European frameworks through translation, simplified language and context-specific examples, so that future teachers can connect abstract competences to classroom realities.