The Best Teachers in the World: Why We Don't Have Them and How We Could

Autor/in	Chubb, John E.
Titel	The Best Teachers in the World: Why We Don't Have Them and How We Could
Quelle	(2014), (167 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-8179-1565-0
Schlagwörter	Teacher Effectiveness; Public School Teachers; Public Schools; Educational Change; Academic Achievement; Instructional Effectiveness; Teacher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Bildungsreform; Schulleistung; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung
Abstract	Public schools face the challenge of educating large numbers of students for whom learning does not come easily. They are institutions with long-established practices, often protected by politics and therefore highly resistant to change. "The Best Teachers in the World" explains why changing our traditional approach to improving our schools is critical and tells how to achieve such change. The author, John Chubb, shows how we can raise student achievement to levels comparable to those of the best nations in the world through a new strategy for raising teacher quality that is very different from the approach our country has historically followed. He asserts that we must attract and retain high-caliber individuals to teaching, train teachers in institutions and programs that can demonstrate their efficacy in producing teachers who raise student achievement, and improve the quality of school leadership. Chubb suggests moving beyond licensing and other regulatory approaches to teacher quality to focus on providing quality by measuring performance directly--including direct measurement of both teacher effectiveness and training effectiveness--with the success of each gauged by the ability of participants subsequently to raise student achievement. Given strong incentives to perform and the information to do so, he shows, the American educational system can improve teacher training and raise teacher quality to the highest levels in the world. The book contains the Foreword: The Envy of the World by Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.; a Preface; and the following chapters: (1) Wanting the Best; (2) Fewer Teachers, Better Teachers; (3) Developing Great Teachers; (4) Great Leaders, Great Teachers; and (5) Getting the Best. The book concludes with: (1)Notes; (2) About the Author; and (3) About the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. An index is also included. [Additional support for this research was provided by the Edmund and Jeannik Littlefield Foundation, the Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation, Inc., and the Taube Family Foundation.] (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01