"The Level of Training Needs for First Cycle Basic Education Teachers in Story Digitization Skills and Their Integration into the Educational Process in Light of Digital Transformation"

The aim of the research is to determine the level of training needs for first-grade teachers in basiceducation regarding the skills of digitizing stories and utilizing them in the educational processwithin the context of digital transformation. To achieve this objective, a descriptive approach wasused, and the study yielded the following results:- The most needed digital skills among first-grade teachers (research sample) are related to theaxis of designing digital story content, followed by the axis of planning digital stories, and thenthe axis of saving and publishing digital stories. All of these skills have a high level of need, with anoverall average score of (2.42).- There are statistically significant differences between the mean scores of teachers’ responses(research sample) regarding the items of the training needs questionnaire for digitizing stories andutilizing them in the educational process. These differences can be attributed to two variables: theacademic qualification, in favor of teachers holding university degrees, and training courses, in favorof teachers who have undergone training courses. Based on the research results, a set of proposals are presented that emphasize the necessityof conducting training courses for first-grade teachers in basic education to equip them with theskills of digitizing stories and guide them towards utilizing technological innovations in education,especially in the context of digital transformation. Further studies in this field are also recommended.