Teacher Quality, Professional Learning and Policy: Recognising, Rewarding and Developing Teacher Expertise

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This book examines the significance of teacher expertise in the drive to improve quality and effectiveness. Scrutinising both key conceptual issues and current policy developments and approaches, the authors analyse educational systems from around the world and question how different cultural contexts and systems can implement measures to improve teacher effectiveness. The book analyses factors such as policy change and teacher evaluation as well as the regulation of the teaching profession to determine how these aspects can influence the expertise of individual teachers. As numerous policy interventions have tried to define and enhance teacher quality to raise pupil achievement, this book calls for an interrogation of this stance and signals a need to consider an alternative approach. This book will appeal to students and scholars of teacher effectiveness and professional learning, as well as researchers and policymakers. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii The Question of Teacher Quality (Christine Forde, Margery McMahon)....Pages 1-30 Issues of Teacher Expertise and Teacher Quality (Christine Forde, Margery McMahon)....Pages 31-54 Teachers and the Teaching Profession: Autonomy, Regulation and Expertise (Christine Forde, Margery McMahon)....Pages 55-81 Teachers’ Careers, Work Life and Expertise (Christine Forde, Margery McMahon)....Pages 83-110 Teacher Quality and Evaluation and the Development of Accomplished Practice (Christine Forde, Margery McMahon)....Pages 111-138 Teacher Professional Learning: Building Expertise Over a Teaching Career (Christine Forde, Margery McMahon)....Pages 139-166 Recognising and Rewarding Teacher Expertise and Accomplished Practice (Christine Forde, Margery McMahon)....Pages 167-191 Career-Long Professional Learning, Professionalism and Expertise (Christine Forde, Margery McMahon)....Pages 193-220 Developing and Sustaining Teacher Expertise (Christine Forde, Margery McMahon)....Pages 221-245 Back Matter ....Pages 247-285