Shaping Futures: Teachers Reflect on Their Preparation and Professional Development
Voices of Teachers from Around the World
Educators play a key role in shaping the futures of their students. Skilled teachers help inspire learners and drive results. We asked teachers to share where they learned the most about teaching, and the impact it has made on their students.
Teachers shape the skills of every future worker. By equipping children with skills that carry through further schooling, employment, and life, effective primary school teachers build a country’s human capital and, over time, facilitate economic growth and shared prosperity.
How can education systems best support teachers from the outset of their careers? The answer begins with initial teacher education (ITE), the foundation of teachers’ lifelong professional learning. It provides aspiring teachers with the core knowledge and skills for teaching, as well as with a strong professional identity to prepare them for the demands of the classroom.
Providing relevant content delivered by skilled teacher educators
Incorporating quality field placements
Aligning institutions for responsive and efficient ITE
Enhancing quality assurance processes.
This publication presents a policy framework and solutions package for improving primary school teacher preparation.
It draws on detailed analysis of country experiences from Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Finland, Ghana, India, Kenya, Morocco, Viet Nam, and Zambia—as well as examples from many additional countries— to demonstrate how decision makers can act across different country contexts.
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