Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World
How Six Nations Support Teachers for 21st Century Education
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This open access book presents a comparative study on how large-scale professional development programs for teachers are designed and implemented. Around the world, governments and educators are recognizing the need to educate students in a broad range of higher order cognitive skills and socio-emotional competencies, and providing effective opportunities for teachers to develop the expertise needed to teach these skills is a crucial aspect of effective implementation of curricula which include those goals.
This study examines how large-scale efforts to empower teachers for deeper instruction have been designed, how they have been implemented, and their outcomes. To do so, it investigates six programs from England, Colombia, Mexico, India, and the United States. Though all six are intended to broaden and deepen students’ curricular aspirations, each takes this expansion of curricular goals in a different direction.
The ambitious education reforms studied here explicitly focus on building teachers’ capacity to teach on a broader set of goals. Through a discerning analysis of program documents, evaluations, and interviews with senior leaders and participants in the programs, the book identifies the various theories of action used in these programs, examines how they were implemented, and discusses what they achieved. As such, it offers an indispensable resource for education leaders interested in designing and implementing professional development programs for teachers that are aligned with ambitious instructional goals.
Examines how teacher preparation is contributing to deeper learning and to the development of 21st century skills Offers a comparative analysis of six national-level professional development programs for teachers Provides rich and nuanced descriptions and analyses of how these programs are designed and implemented in practice Examines what large, ambitious national teacher development programs have in common, and discusses how they can enrich established ideas about what works in teacher education
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Fernando M. Reimers
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“This book is a valuable resource to system leaders or policy makers keen to make change in their education or school system.” (Pak Tee Ng, Educational Research for Policy and Practice, Vol. 19, 2020)
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