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    • Teacher Education and Professional Development: 10 Years of ICT Integration and What? 

      Laferrière, Thérèse; Gervais, Fernand (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 2008)
      This paper reports on designs for effective uses of ICTs in teaching and learning in teaching education. Applying Engeström's schema (1987) at three different levels of use of the computer as a cultural tool, three ...

    • Teacher Education and the Teaching Career in an Era of Lifelong Learning 

      Coolahan, John (OECD, 2002-12)
      This paper attempts to position the teaching career within the context of the changing policy paradigm of lifelong learning. The paper locates the emergence of this policy within some of the fundamental social and economic ...

    • Teacher Evaluation : Current Practices in OECD Countries and a Literature Review 

      Isoré, Marlène (OECD, 2009-10)
      This paper discusses the most relevant issues concerning teacher evaluation in primary and secondary education by reviewing the recent literature and analysing current practices within the OECD countries. First, it provides ...

    • Teacher Interrupted: Work Stress, Strain, and Teaching Role 

      Mulholland, Rosie; McKinlay, Andy; Sproule, John (SAGE, 2013)
      A sample of 399 secondary school teachers (156 males, 243 females, 18 schools) responded to a survey questionnaire containing one measure of stress and two measures of strain. The Stressors in Teaching Scale (SITS), developed ...

    • Teacher performance pay : experimental evidence from Pakistan 

      Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Raju, Dhushyanth (The World Bank, 2015-06)
      This paper presents evidence from the first three years of a randomized controlled trial of a government-administered pilot teacher performance pay program in Punjab, Pakistan. The program offers yearly cash bonuses to ...

    • Teacher Policies, Incentives, and Labor Markets in Chile, Colombia, and Perú: Implications for Equality 

      Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Jaimovich, Analía; Rodriguez, Julio; Santos, Humberto (BID, 2018-08)
      This paper contributes to the teacher sorting literature by analyzing equity in the distribution of teachers in three educational systems in Latin America, with different equalization policies, teacher assignment rules, ...

    • Teacher Professional Development around the World : The Gap between Evidence and Practice 

      Popova, Anna; Evans, David K.; Breeding, Mary E.; Arancibia, Violeta (World Bank, 2018-08)
      Teachers, like all professionals, require ongoing professional development opportunities to improve their skills. This paper provides evidence on effective professional development characteristics and how at-scale programs ...

    • Teacher Professionalism 

      OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2016-02)
      A new OECD report, Supporting Teacher Professionalism, based on the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), conceptualises teacher professionalism as being comprised of: knowledge base, defined as necessary ...

    • Teacher Quality and Learning Outcomes in Kindergarten 

      Araujo, María Caridad; Cruz-Aguayo, Yyannu; Schady, Norbert (BID, 2016-01)
      The report assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools with a rule that is as-good-as-random. The authors collected data on children at the beginning of the ...

    • Teacher Technology Integration Professional Development Model (SMART Board), Pre-Algebra Achievement, and Smart Board Proficiency Scores 

      Minor, Marice; Losike-Sedimo, Nodofo; Reglin, Gary; Royster, Otelia (SAGE, 2013)
      The study investigated a teacher technology integration professional development model. The model focused on using SMART Board to improve pre-algebra achievement. The importance of the study was that the pre-algebra students ...

    • Teacher Trainees’ Perception of the Time Dimension in Practical Training 

      Iliyan, Salman (2008)
      This study compares the students’ perception of their professional development in two aspects of practical training: weekly practical training (WPT), and intensive practical training (IPT). The objective of the research ...

    • Teachers’ Conceptions of Assessment 

      Brown, Gavin Thomas Lumsden (University of Auckland, 2002)
      Teachers’ conceptions are powerful in shaping the quality of their instructional practice. The purpose of this thesis is to defend a four-facet model of teachers’ conceptions of assessment, which revolves around emphasising ...

    • Teachers’ perception of disruptive behaviour in the classrooms 

      Álvarez Martino, Eva; Álvarez Hernández, Marina; Castro Pañeda, Pilar; Campo Mon, María Ángel; González González de Mesa, Carmen (Universidad de Oviedo. Facultad y Departamento de Psicología, Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos del Principado de Asturias, 2016)
      Antecedentes: el fenómeno de la disrupción es cada vez más habitual en las aulas y se asocia específicamente a conductas que dificultan y obstaculizan el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. El objetivo principal de esta ...

    • Teacher–Student Interaction in EFL Reading Comprehension Contexts at University Level: A Critical Thinking Perspective 

      Talebinejad, M. Reza; Matou, Zahra (SAGE, 2012)
      In line with previous studies in English as a Foreign Language/English as a Second Language (EFL/ESL) contexts confirming the positive correlation between critical thinking and reading comprehension, this study was conducted ...

    • Teaching and Learning : Achieving quality for all 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2014)
      It provides a timely update on progress that countries are making towards the global education goals that were agreed in 2000. It also makes a powerful case for placing education at the heart of the global development ...

    • Teaching and Learning with Mobile Technology : A Qualitative Explorative Study about the Introduction of Tablet Devices in Secondary Education 

      Montrieux, Hannelore; Vanderlinde, Ruben; Schellens, Tammy; Marez, Lieven de (PLOS, 2015)
      This paper investigates teachers’ and students’ perceptions concerning the impact of using tablet devices for teaching and learning purposes. An explorative focus group study was conducted with teachers (n = 18) and students ...

    • Teaching beliefs and practice 

      OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2015-09)
      Most teachers participating in the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) report that they see themselves as facilitators to students’ own enquiry (94%) and that students should think of their own solutions to ...

    • Teaching in different ethos of choise : a comparison of two countries 

      Buchanan, Nina K. (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2009)
      Current educational research often incorporates an unconscious cultural or national bias that starts from the questions which are asked and concludes with the implications which are drawn. We describe a threemonth in situ ...

    • Teaching Strategies for Instructional Quality : Insights from the TALIS-PISA Link Data 

      OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2016-11)
      This report explores the relationships between mathematics teachers’ teaching strategies and student learning outcomes in eight countries, using information from the TALIS-PISA link database. First, the study seeks to ...

    • Teaching students with special needs : Are teachers well-prepared? 

      OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2018-09)
      TALIS 2013 results show that 20% of teachers across 25 OECD participating countries express a high need for professional development in teaching students with special needs. On average across 25 OECD countries in TALIS, ...