The key themes that emerged from the March 2011 international summitt on the teaching profession:
- In countries with high performing students as measured by the PISA tests, the teaching profession is held in high esteem and attracts the strongest students to its preparation programs.
- Conversely, those same countries support a highly selective process for identifying potential teachers and accepting them into teacher preparation programs.
- Once on the job, teachers in high performing countries are given an average of 15 hours/week to confer with colleagues, observe others’ classrooms, and participate in professional learning activities.
- In countries where students score well on international tests, teachers’ salaries are on par with engineers, doctors, and other professionals.
- In all the countries that participated in the summit, teachers are unionized.
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