International Beliefs and Practices That Characterize Teacher Effectiveness (Hardcover)

Research surrounding teacher quality and teacher effectiveness has continued to grow and become even more prominent as teaching has become more professionalized globally and countries have invested more comprehensively in teacher education, certification, and professional development. To better understand teacher effectiveness, it is important to have a global viewpoint to truly understand how beliefs and practices vary in each country and can lead to different characterizations of what makes an effective teacher. This includes both cross-cultural commonalities and unique differences in conceptualization of teacher effectiveness and practices. With this comprehensive, international understanding of teacher effectiveness, a better understanding of best practices, teacher models, philosophies, and more will be developed. International Beliefs and Practices That Characterize Teacher Effectiveness identifies, shares, and explores the predominant conceptual understandings of beliefs and practices that characterize effective teachers in different countries. This book provides international and cross-cultural perspectives on teacher effectiveness and examines the prominent philosophies of teaching and pedagogical practices that characterize teachers in selected countries. Each chapter includes a background, such as history and undergirding philosophy within each country, effective teacher models, prominent applications of teacher effectiveness practices, and special or unique features of teaching in the specific countries mentioned. This book is essential for practicing educators in various countries, teacher educators, faculty, and students within schools and colleges, researchers in international comparative studies, organizations engaged in international education, and administrators, practitioners, and academicians interested in how teacher effectiveness is characterized in different countries and regions across the world.

General

Imprint:	Business Science Reference
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2021
First published:	2021
Editors:	Leslie W. Grant • James H. Stronge • Xianxuan Xu
Dimensions:	279 x 216mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	305
ISBN-13:	978-1-79987-908-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > Teacher assessment
LSN:	1-79987-908-9
Barcode:	9781799879084

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