Teaching in the Flat World: Learning from High-Performing Systems

✍ Scribed by Linda Darling-Hammond; Robert Rothman

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 120
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book will help school systems improve their teacher workforce by drawing important lessons from nations with high-performing educational systems, as well as from successful state experiments in the United States. The authors examine common features and differences in the approaches of high-performing systems that made education a top priority and developed high-leverage strategies to meet their goals. Their varied solutions offer valuable ideas for how to create a strong teacher and school administrator ccorps from recruitment and preparation through induction, professional development, evaluation, and career advancement into leadership roles. Chapters focusing on systems in Finland, Ontario, and Singapore are coauthored by local scholars with extensive knowledge of the history and current status for policy and practice in their nation. A final chapter highlights attributes that are absolutely necessary for any education system to flourish. The book will be useful to policymakers, practitioners, and researchers interested in strengthening the quality of teaching.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Developing Effective Teaching
Teacher Quality Initiatives in the United States
Developing Effective Teachers and School Leaders
Systems for Teacher and Leadership Effectiveness and Quality
Creating Effective Teachers and Leaders in Singapore
Lessons from Successful Systems
References
Index
About the Authors