“Improving Teacher Quality: Trends in European Countries”

Unprecedented Historical Challenge

• To Educate People for Longer Periods of their Lives than Ever Before in History
• To Educate the Most Diverse Student Body in our History to Higher Standards than Ever Before.
• In Developed Countries – the Era of Lifelong Learning
• Need for New Educational Outcomes, Capabilities, Characteristics
•  The Changing School
•  The Teacher as Key Social Mediator

The Changing School in the Knowledge Society

• Extended Role
• Inclusive Clientele
• Centrality of Quality Teaching and Learning
• Emphasis on “Learning to Learn” Motif
• Curricular, Pedagogic and Assessment Reform
• Integration of ICT
• Whole School Planning
• Teamwork, Collegiality
• Relations with Parents, External Agencies