Building a High-Quality Teaching Profession. Lessons from around the world
By Andreas Schleicher. 2012
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Andreas Schleicher, Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France. Email: andreas.schleicher@oecd.org Address: 2, rue Andr Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France.This is the first chapter of the OECD report. International experience is used to identify the methods to attract qualified graduates into the teaching force and to ensure high-quality initial teacher education.Different approaches towards recruitment are described. Special emphasis is placed on the comprehensive approach to identifying and nurturing teaching talent in young people from secondary school graduating classes developed in Singapore.The author determines both financial incentives proposed by educational systems in different countries to attract qualified graduates into the teaching force and policies seeking to improve the professions general status and competitive position in the job market. Building stronger links between the schools and the community can help to enhance the status of teaching.It is discussed how to supply attractive forms of employment that balance flexibility with job security and grant sufficient authority for schools to manage and deploy their human resources. The author provides the example of Finland where teachers are engaged in education reform. It is explained why top-down initiatives alone are insufficient to achieve deep and lasting changes in practice.Well-structured and well-resourced selection processes and programs of induction that ensure that the best candidates get the available jobs are critical. The author specifies recruitment measures to bring in teachers from a wider range of backgrounds.Methods to better ensure high-quality initial teacher education in different countries are identified.DOI: 10.17323/1814-9545-2012-1-74-92
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Information Systems
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- Teacher quality and school improvement: what is the role of research? (2015, background): “The skills for reflective practice and on-the-job research have come centre stage (OECD, 2011) and, significantly, these are essentially research derived.”
- Emerging perceptions of teacher quality and teacher development in China (2014, result): “This is reflected in the conclusion of the 2011 International Summit on the Teaching Profession which concluded that there was a need to make teaching more attractive and to solve problems with recruitment and retention (Schleicher, 2011; Stewart, 2011).”
- Teacher Reform in Indonesia: The Role of Politics and Evidence in Policy Making (2013, background): “Such ecosystems need to draw on four sources: innovation and knowledge inspired by science (research and evaluation); innovation inspired by firms (entrepreneurial development of new products and services); innovation and knowledge inspired by practitioners (teachers, school heads); and innovation i”
- Motivations for choosing teaching as a career : An international comparison using the FIT-Choice scale (2012, background): “Teachers who were recruited thirty years ago are now eligible to retire, promising to further escalate these shortages (MCEETYA, 2002; OECD, 2005, 2011).”