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Great Teachers : How to Raise Student Learning in Latin America and the Caribbean /
The seven million teachers of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are the critical actors in the region's efforts to improve education quality and raise student learning levels, which lag far behind those of OECD countries and East Asian countries such as China. This book documents the high e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
The World Bank,
2014.
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| Colección: | Latin American development forum.
World Bank e-Library. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors and Contributors""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Overview""; ""Why teachers matter""; ""LAC's teachers inside the classroom""; ""Recruiting better teachers""; ""Grooming great teachers""; ""Motivating teachers to perform""; ""Managing the politics of teacher reform""; ""Note""; ""References""; ""Chapter 1: How Good Are Teachers in the Region?""; ""How are LAC education systems performing?""; ""What drives student learning?""; ""What makes teachers effective?""; ""Who are LAC's teachers?""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""
- ""Teacher induction and probationary periods""""Teacher evaluation""; ""In-service training""; ""Grooming teachers through school leadership""; ""Challenge and promise of information technology""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Chapter 5: Motivating Teachers to Perform""; ""What motivates teachers?""; ""Professional rewards""; ""Accountability pressure""; ""Financial incentives""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Chapter 6: Managing the Politics of Teacher Reform""; ""Education policies through the lens of teachers' interests""; ""Sources of union power""
- ""Political dynamics of education reform: Four recent cases""""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Boxes""; ""1.1 Math and reading skills as measured on PISA""; ""2.1 How the Stallings Classroom Snapshot works""; ""2.2 Explaining learning improvements in Mexico, D.F.""; ""2.3 Innovations in system monitoring: Digitized Stallings observations""; ""3.1 How top education systems attract talented teachers""
- ""3.2 Pupil-teacher ratio and average class size""""4.1 Raising teacher quality through rigorous induction in Rio de Janeiro""; ""4.2 Measuring teacher quality with classroom observation instruments""; ""4.3 Teacher evaluation in Singapore""; ""4.4 Raising quality through teacher evaluation in Washington, DC""; ""4.5 Colombia's Escuela Nueva""; ""4.6 Rio de Janeiro's Educopedia""; ""5.1 Fair comparisons of school performance: The design of Chile's Sistema Nacional de Evaluación del Desempeño (SNED)""; ""Figures""