The topic of digitalisation and digital literacy in teacher training and the associated professional preparation of future teachers for teaching with digital media has been playing a crucial role in all phases of teacher training for several years (Monitor Lehrerbildung, 2018). As a prospective teacher, you are no doubt aware that the federal states agreed on a binding framework for the socially significant topic of ‘education in the digital world’ as early as 2016 (KMK, 2016).

However, with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and the necessary switch to online teaching, the topic of digitalisation and digital skills in teacher training has once again become significantly more important. For example, both the federal and state governments expanded the ‘Quality Initiative for Teacher Training’ introduced in 2018 in 2020 to include the funding priority ‘Digitalisation in Teacher Training’.

In doing so, they are actively supporting projects that research the challenges and opportunities of digitalisation and test approaches to how teachers can support children and young people in using media competently, purposefully and responsibly through targeted use in the classroom (BMBF, 2021).

The focus on the topic of ‘digitalisation’ is also becoming increasingly apparent in the further and professional development programmes that make up the second and third phases of your teacher training.

The aim of this project is to professionally prepare you as a student teacher in the first and second phase of teacher training for teaching with digital media.

In order to achieve this goal in the best possible way, a workshop programme has been developed that consists of the four modules listed below, which build on each other.