Educating the Next Generation : Improving Teacher Quality in Cambodia
This book diagnoses Cambodian teaching quality and presents policy options for reform. Through classroom observation, assessments of mathematics and pedagogical content knowledge, and surveys of teachers and school directors, it sheds light on cont...
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Format: | Publication |
Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2014
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/23091473/educating-next-generation-improving-teacher-quality-cambodia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21002 |
Summary: | This book diagnoses Cambodian teaching
quality and presents policy options for reform. Through
classroom observation, assessments of mathematics and
pedagogical content knowledge, and surveys of teachers and
school directors, it sheds light on content and instruction,
interactions with school directors, instructional support
systems, and the implementation of teacher standards. The
book investigates the competencies and skills of those
attracted to teaching; it assesses the extent to which
preservice education in Cambodia is delivering graduates
with high content mastery and exposure to a student-centered
learning environment; and it examines how teacher
performance has been impacted by national incentives, an
evaluation system that is disconnected from classroom
realities, and the extent to which opportunities to learn
and share best-practice lessons with peers exists. Out of
the diagnosis follow three policy pillars to reform how
teachers are trained, maintained, and motivated. First, the
government must make teaching a much more attractive
profession. Second, it must improve how teachers are
prepared. And third, it must encourage stronger classroom
performance. The book contains detailed recommendations
under each policy pillar and provides the platform for
Cambodia to undertake its next generation of educational reform. |
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