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Great teachers - how to raise student learning in Latin America and the Caribbean (Paperback)
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Great teachers - how to raise student learning in Latin America and the Caribbean (Paperback)
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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 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, and
weak support for teachers once they are on the job. New research
conducted for this report in close to 15,000 classrooms in seven
different LAC countries the largest cross-country study of this
kind to date provides a first-ever insight into how the region s
teachers perform inside the classroom. It documents that the
average teacher in LAC loses the equivalent of one day of
instructional time per week because of inadequate preparation,
excessive time on administration (taking attendance, passing out
papers) and a surprisingly high share of time physically absent
from the classrooms where they should be teaching. Teachers also
make limited use of available learning materials, especially ICT,
and are unable to keep the majority of their students engaged. The
book sets out the three priority lines of reform needed to produce
great teachers in LAC: policies to recruit better teachers;
programs to groom teachers and improve their skills once they are
in service; and stronger incentives to motivate teachers to perform
their best throughout their career. In every area, the book
distills the latest evidence from inside and outside the region to
provide practical guidance to policymakers in the design of
effective programs and sustainable reforms. A final chapter
analyzes the politics of recent major teacher reforms in Chile,
Peru, Ecuador and Mexico -- chronicling the prominent role of
teachers unions and the political and communications strategies
that have underpinned successful reforms."
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