Developing Highly Qualified Teachers
Developing Highly Qualified Teachers

Author: Allan A. Glatthorn

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2005-11-01

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1483360873

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Find research-based answers to: "What is High-Quality Teaching?" "How is High-Quality Teaching Achieved?" The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) establishes a clear demand for highly qualified teachers but does little to help educators define "highly qualified" or instruct them on developing those teachers. This handbook clearly explains the concept of highly qualified teachers, as required by NCLB. It then explains how to recruit, develop, and retain highly qualified teachers. Developing Highly Qualified Teachers is divided into four distinct sections: The Foundations: Addressing NCLB guidelines for developing highly qualified teachers, developing a sense of ownership of the highly qualified concept, and recruiting and selecting staff The General Strategies: Developing a differentiated system of supervision, and implementing a quality staff development program The Specific Approaches: Developing a quality induction program for new teachers, working with marginal staff, fully developing highly qualified teachers, teaming, mentoring, and curriculum development The Results: Retaining quality teachers and developing the faculty as a cohesive community These practices-research based and field tested over many years-will help accomplish the type of faculty improvement and reform that NCLB demands and the adequate yearly progress that students, parents, and faculty deserve.

Policy-Making for Education Reform in Developing Countries
Policy-Making for Education Reform in Developing Countries

Author: William K. Cummings

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2008-08-15

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1578868955

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Policy-Making for Education Reform in Developing Countries aims at helping policymakers in developing countries better understand the processes and strategies for education reform, and the policy options available to them. This text focuses on the content of reform-options and strategies for achieving educational improvement at different levels of the system, e.g., primary, secondary, tertiary; for different sub-sectors, e.g., management, teachers; and for different purposes with which education systems are tasked, e.g., reaching peripheral groups of students, linking youth and employment. A holistic approach is increasingly recognized as essential to realizing the promises of education for the development of social and human capital-innovation in a global economy, sustained economic growth, social harmony and greater civic participation, decreased achievement gaps, and increased equity.

Effective Schools in Developing Countries (RLE Edu A)
Effective Schools in Developing Countries (RLE Edu A)

Author: Henry Levin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-31

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1136722270

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This volume brings together eight case studies which describe a variety of initiatives to create more effective schools for children of poverty, especially in the Third World. The initiatives reviewed published and unpublished documents and both qualitative and statistical studies were examined. Countries include Brazil, Burundi, Colombia, Ghana, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the United States. Each initiative was developed independently to address unique challenges and situations but taken as a group, the features of the approaches described in this volume can be viewed as a basis for considering the development of effective schools strategies in other contexts.

Policy-making for Education Reform in Developing Countries
Policy-making for Education Reform in Developing Countries

Author: James H. Williams

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781578862016

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The first book in a two-volume series designed to help those working, or preparing to work, as educationchange agents in developing countries, this volume will help change agents acquire a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of the policy process and how it can be influenced.

Schools Count
Schools Count

Author: Ward Heneveld

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9780821334607

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World Bank Technical Paper No. 303.Reviews the design of 26 projects in Sub-Saharan Africa that were prepared by African governments and the World Bank for Bank funding. The report concludes that school-level factors need more attention in program design.

On-the-job Improvements in Teacher Competence
On-the-job Improvements in Teacher Competence

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Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

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Teacher supervision by effective principals is critical to improved teaching and learning in developing countries. Both teacher supervision and preservice training are far more important than inservice teacher training.