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DISCOVER HOW HIGH-PERFORMING SYSTEMS SHAPE TEACHING QUALITY AROUND THE WORLD Empowered Educators is the first volume in a series by celebrated educator
Linda Darling-Hammond and a team of distinguished scholars. Across four continents and five countries, they examine seven jurisdictions that developed comprehensive teaching policy systems: Singapore, Finland, the states of New South Wales and Victoria in Australia, the provinces of Alberta and Ontario in Canada, and the province of Shanghai in China. This book describes how these countries have carefully developed, planned, and implemented
teaching and learning systems, as well as detailing the lessons that may be learned from these diverse systems. These countries have demonstrated considerable success on international indicators of educational quality that emphasize the kinds of higher-order skills needed in contemporary societies.
Empowered Educators describes how this seemingly magical work is done. The authors show how seven international educational systems create a coherent set of policies designed to ensure quality teaching in all communities--and how the results of these policies are brought to life in the classroom.
List of contents
Foreword v
Acknowledgments xi
About the Sponsoring Organizations xiii
About the Lead Authors xv
Online Documents and Videos xvii
Chapter 1 Teaching Policy Around the World 1 What Kinds of Policies Affect Teaching? 3
Why Study International Teaching Policy? 5
Why Study These Jurisdictions? 8
What We Found 12
Developing Both Teacher Quality and Teaching Quality 17
Organization of This Book 19
Chapter 2 Contexts for Teaching and Learning Systems 21 Australia 22
Canada 26
Finland 32
Shanghai 36
Singapore 43
Summary 47
Chapter 3 Recruiting and Preparing Profession-Ready Teachers 49 Recruiting the Best 50
Financial Compensation 50
Attractiveness of the Profession 53
Selection Practices 55
Preparing Professionals 61
Preparation That Enables Professional Practice 68
Induction 88
Lessons Learned 100
Chapter 4 Developing High-Quality Teaching 105 Incentives and Infrastructure for Learning 107
Time and Opportunity for Collaboration 111
Curriculum Development and Lesson Study 116
Teacher Research 123
Teacher-Led Professional Development 127
Feedback and Appraisal 132
Lessons Learned 146
Chapter 5 The Teaching Career and Leadership for the Profession 149 Career Pathways 150
Opportunities to Lead Professional Learning 163
Recruiting and Developing School Leaders 168
Lessons Learned 182
Chapter 6 Perseverance in the Pursuit of Equity 185 Resourcing Student Learning 186
Recruiting and Supporting Teachers in High-Needs Schools 193
Lessons Learned 208
Chapter 7 Global Learning for Ongoing Improvement 211 Policy Borrowing: Learning From Success 212
New Horizons 224
Conclusion 232
Appendix A Research Methodology 241
Appendix B Qilun Elementary School Lesson Plan 243
Appendix C Qibao Teaching Contest Evaluation Form 249
References 253
Index 271
About the author
LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND, president of the Learning Policy Institute, is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University. She is the award-winning author of numerous books including
Beyond the Bubble Test: How Performance Assessments Support 21st Century Learning, and
Powerful Teacher Education: Lessons from Exemplary Programs (Jossey-Bass).
DION BURNS is a senior researcher with the Learning Policy Institute and research analyst at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.
Summary
Discover how high-performing systems shape teaching quality around the world Producing highly skilled and committed teachers is not the work of a single innovative school or the aggregation of heroic individuals who succeed against the odds.
