LEADER 05598nam 2200697 450 001 9910459966803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4648-0152-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000270854 035 $a(EBL)1913690 035 $a(OCoLC)898238146 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001410677 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11797951 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001410677 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11378373 035 $a(PQKB)10391526 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1913690 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1913690 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10959463 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL658266 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000270854 100 $a20141105h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGreat teachers $ehow to raise student learning in Latin America and the Caribbean /$fBarbara Bruns and Javier Luque [and seven others] ; cover design, Vladimir Herrera 210 1$aWashington, District of Columbia :$cThe World Bank,$d2015. 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (375 p.) 225 1 $aLatin American Development Forum 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-26986-6 311 $a1-4648-0151-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $a""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors and Contributors""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Overview""; ""Why teachers matter""; ""LAC's teachers inside the classroom""; ""Recruiting better teachers""; ""Grooming great teachers""; ""Motivating teachers to perform""; ""Managing the politics of teacher reform""; ""Note""; ""References""; ""Chapter 1: How Good Are Teachers in the Region?""; ""How are LAC education systems performing?""; ""What drives student learning?""; ""What makes teachers effective?""; ""Who are LAC's teachers?""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes"" 327 $a""References""""Chapter 2: Inside the Classroom in Latin America and the Caribbean""; ""LAC classroom observation sample""; ""Observation method and instrument""; ""What are we learning from classroom observations in LAC?""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3: Recruiting Better Teachers""; ""Raising the selectivity of teacher education""; ""Raising the quality of teacher education""; ""Raising hiring standards""; ""Recruiting better teachers over the next decade""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4: Grooming Great Teachers"" 327 $a""Teacher induction and probationary periods""""Teacher evaluation""; ""In-service training""; ""Grooming teachers through school leadership""; ""Challenge and promise of information technology""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Chapter 5: Motivating Teachers to Perform""; ""What motivates teachers?""; ""Professional rewards""; ""Accountability pressure""; ""Financial incentives""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Chapter 6: Managing the Politics of Teacher Reform""; ""Education policies through the lens of teachers' interests""; ""Sources of union power"" 327 $a""Political dynamics of education reform: Four recent cases""""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Boxes""; ""1.1 Math and reading skills as measured on PISA""; ""2.1 How the Stallings Classroom Snapshot works""; ""2.2 Explaining learning improvements in Mexico, D.F.""; ""2.3 Innovations in system monitoring: Digitized Stallings observations""; ""3.1 How top education systems attract talented teachers"" 327 $a""3.2 Pupil-teacher ratio and average class size""""4.1 Raising teacher quality through rigorous induction in Rio de Janeiro""; ""4.2 Measuring teacher quality with classroom observation instruments""; ""4.3 Teacher evaluation in Singapore""; ""4.4 Raising quality through teacher evaluation in Washington, DC""; ""4.5 Colombia's Escuela Nueva""; ""4.6 Rio de Janeiro's Educopedia""; ""5.1 Fair comparisons of school performance: The design of Chile's Sistema Nacional de EvaluaciA?³n del DesempeA?±o (SNED)""; ""Figures"" 327 $a""0.1 Cognitive skills and long-term economic growth across regions, 1960a???2000"" 330 $aThe seven million teachers of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are the critical actors in the region's efforts to improve education quality and raise student learning levels, which lag far behind those of OECD countries and East Asian countries such as China. This book documents the high economic stakes around teacher quality, benchmarks the current performance of LAC's teachers, and delineates the key issues. These include low standards for entry into teacher training, poor quality training programs that are detached from the realities of the classroom, unattractive career incentives, an 410 0$aLatin American development forum. 606 $aTeaching$zSouth America 606 $aTeaching$zCaribbean Area 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTeaching 615 0$aTeaching 676 $a371.102 700 $aBruns$b Barbara$0884465 702 $aLuque Ordo?n?ez$b Javier 702 $aHerrera$b Vladimir 712 02$aWorld Bank Group. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459966803321 996 $aGreat teachers$92286526 997 $aUNINA