Great teachers : how to raise student learning in Latin America and the Caribbean / / Barbara Bruns and Javier Luque [and seven others] ; cover design, Vladimir Herrera

• Autore: Bruns Barbara
• Pubblicazione: Washington, District of Columbia : , : The World Bank, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (375 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.102
• Soggetto topico: Teaching - South America; Teaching - Caribbean Area
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): Luque OrdóñezJavier; HerreraVladimir
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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"" ; ""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"" ; ""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"" ; ""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"" ; ""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 Evaluación del Desempeño (SNED)""; ""Figures"" ; ""0.1 Cognitive skills and long-term economic growth across regions, 1960â€?2000""
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Great teachers
• ISBN: 1-4648-0152-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459966803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Latin American development forum.