“Improving Teacher Quality: Trends in European Countries”

McKinsey Report (2007)

• Three Things Matter Most:
• Getting the Right People to Become Teachers
• Developing Them into Effective Instructors
• Ensuring the System is able to Deliver the best possible Instruction for Every Child.

Dilemma

• Increasing Demands on Teachers
• In Knowledge Society
• Image
• Recruitment
• Induction
• Retention
• Ageing
• Feminisation
• Salary Slippage
• Conditions of Work
• Problems of Teaching

Coherence of Policy

• Recruitment / Retention
• I.T.E. }
• Induction } 3 I’s
• Inset }
• Professional Development / Diversification
• Ed. Research and Teachers
• Salaries
• Conditions of Work/ Welfare
• Teaching Resources, ICT etc.
• Role in Policy Formulation
• Self-Regulation

Teacher Education and the Teaching Profession

• Much Variation Internationally
• Shaped by Historical, Cultural, Religious, Economic, Political Influences
• Yet Increasing Commonality of Issues and Policies
• Aim to Distil Key Trends
• Improving Teacher Quality is not “A Quick Fix” - needs sustained attention