The COVID pandemic has shone a spotlight on teacher digital skills. Many governments and education ministries across the world have come to realise the importance of teacher digital skills, as well as the considerable amount of professional development activities necessary to bring all teachers up to an international standard, that enables them to handle a range of hybrid learning techniques. The skills necessary to reach international standards and expectations include, not only, knowledge, expertise, and confidence to operate in a digital and online environment, but also, importantly, an understanding, and a capacity to apply and combine the pedagogy of distance with classroom learning, including the operation of online and digital assessments and the creation of digital portfolios of authentic performance evidence.