COMPETENCES OF GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHERS IN SERBIA

Students of foreign languages and literatures have to acquire a number of competences during their studies, so that they could later be successful in their profession in the field of education. Besides linguistic, literary and (inter) cultural competences, they have to acquire pedagogical, psychological and teaching competences, which would make them capable of working successfully with students in schools and at universities. However, in the context of globalization of all life spheres, students and teachers have to acquire various additional competences, both inside and outside of institutional education, as well as in their teaching praxis. Those competences are time and project management, creativity, rhetoric competence and so on, the competences which enable students to adjust themselves to the changing needs of society. The initial point are the Competence Standards for Teaching Profession and Their Professional Development, which are formulated in a comprehensive way and which we have tried to make more specific and to complete them, so that they can be applied to German language teachers in Serbia.