Not exact matches
Policymakers must weigh these costs against the substantial educational and economic benefits such systems can create for successive cohorts of students, both through avoiding the career - long retention of the lowest -
performing teachers and through broad increases in performance in the overall
teaching workforce.
The researchers also found that dismissal threats shaped the district's
teaching workforce through the voluntary attrition of low -
performing teachers.
Schleicher adds that China differs from other top
performing countries in that its teacher
workforce isn't drawn from the top students in Chinese society, as the
teaching ranks are drawn from the top third in Japan, Finland or Singapore #.
«Help will be required for the foreseeable future in part because of the nature of the teacher
workforce... there's such a high degree of turnover,» said Henry, who noted that 25 percent of the teacher
workforce in low -
performing schools comprises teachers who are within their first five years of
teaching.
«It's no surprise that the countries where students
perform well on the PISA, like Singapore and Finland, are the same ones that are investing deeply in creating a world - class
teaching workforce,» said Ronald Thorpe, president and CEO of the National Board.