By fostering the development of a diverse, supported, and
excellent teaching force, we can help ensure the success of all of our children.
Not exact matches
Back to reformers: If these results stand — and possibly improve as more teachers hold these roles and help one another succeed — can we possibly all work together to change policies and systems to support giving every student access to
excellent teaching, and giving every teacher outstanding career opportunities without being
forced up and out of the classroom?
Projects have included: teacher career pathway programs that diversified roles in the
teaching force; teacher career pathways that recognize, develop, and reward
excellent teachers as they advance through various career stages; incentives for effective teachers who take on instructional leadership roles within their schools; incentives that attract, support, reward, and retain the most effective teachers and administrators at high - need schools; rigorous, ongoing leadership development training for teacher leaders and principals, leadership roles for teachers aimed at school turnaround; and the creation of new salary structures based on effectiveness.
But in fact, the ability to keep teachers and develop them into
excellent teachers is the more important goal and strategy for getting a high - quality
teaching force.
The Alliance for
Excellent Education and the National Commission on
Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) will join
forces with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to host a joint U.S. release of the OECD's new report Supporting Teacher Professionalism.
The Chief Inspector herself has drawn attention to the negative consequences for deep learning that result from the corrupted
teaching methods that schools feel
forced to adopt as a result of «The Tyranny of Testing» (
excellent book by Warwick Mansell).
The National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards was put together after an
excellent report, A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century; The Report of the Task
Force on
Teaching as a Profession, was put out by Marc Tucker and others.
The only way to successfully train a dog using the old style
force methods, is to be an expert at using leash and collar,
excellent at praise and affection, and very patient and precise in the
teaching — definitely not something a novice can do.