Georgia Teachers : SABER Country Report 2014
Across the globe, the author see increasing interest in attracting, retaining, developing, and motivating great teachers. Student achievement has been found to correlate with economic and social progress. Recent studies have shown that teacher qual...
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Format: | Technical Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/05/26378450/georgia-saber-teachers-country-report-2014 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24466 |
Summary: | Across the globe, the author see
increasing interest in attracting, retaining, developing,
and motivating great teachers. Student achievement has been
found to correlate with economic and social progress. Recent
studies have shown that teacher quality is the main
school-based predictor of student achievement and that
several consecutive years of outstanding teaching can offset
the learning deficits of disadvantaged students. However,
establishing the right teacher policies to ensure that every
classroom has a motivated, supported, and competent teacher
remains a challenge; evidence on the impacts of many teacher
policies remains insufficient and scattered, the impact of
many reforms depends on specific design features, and
teacher policies can have very different impacts depending
on the context and the education policies in place. The main
focus of SABER-teachers is on policy design, rather than on
policy implementation. SABER teachers analyzes the teacher
policies formally adopted by education systems. However,
policies ‘on the ground,’ that is, policies as they are
actually implemented, may differ quite substantially from
policies as originally designed. In fact, they often do
differ, because of the political economy of the reform
process, lack of capacity of the organizations in charge of
implementing them, or the interaction between these policies
and specific contextual factors. Since SABER-Teachers
collects limited data on policy implementation, the
assessment of teacher policies presented in this report
needs to be complemented with detailed information that
describes the actual configuration of teacher policies on
the ground. |
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