1. Quality Assurance and Teachers Policy
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2. What makes schools successful PISA, TALIS, PIAAC etc
Student performance is associated with various characteristics of individual schools and of school system.
How pupils/students are selected and/or grouped between different programs, schools,
educational levels
finances,
goverment,
human and time resources ,
schools/teachers autonomy,
learning environment

3. Teachers and educational quality
Teachers are the essential resource for learning – the quality of school system can not exceed the quality of it’s teachers.
Attracting , developing and retaining of effective teachers is a priority for public policy.
Researchers have pointed out that teacher quality is one of the most important school-related factors in student achievement and that a teacher’s mastery of the subject content and classroom practices strongly influence what students learn.

4. Quality and teachers
It’s clear that teachers at all levels of education must be appropriately trained and qualified, so as to achieve any form of quality teaching.
The teaching and learning environment should be designed in such a way that it supports teachers and education employees in their missions.
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5. Quality and teachers
Teachers should maintain high professional standards and should be accountable to society.
Professional standards should be established with the full involvement of the teaching profession, so that teachers feel confident that both their professional standards and their professional development are relevant to their teaching.

6. Status of teaching profession
The status of the teaching profession is on a steady decline in many countries ,
Only a small number of high-performing college students are attracted into the teaching career due to the availability of other career options with more attractive pay and working conditions.

7. PISA 2012 and teachers
Teacher pre-service training, requirements for the teaching professioon, profile and qualification
Student-teacher ratio
Teacher shortages
Teachers’ professional development

8. Teachers salaries
Represent the largest single cost in expenditure on education
Lower secondary teachers salaries in OECD countries are of 124% per capita GDP, upper sec 129 %
In all systems, teachers salaries rise during the course of a career, although the rate of rate difference greatly.

9. Requiremetns to enter teaching profession
Competitive examination (France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxemburg)
A licence additional to diploma to enter the profession (UK, Germany, US etc) –a teaching practicum needed
Teachers’ registers
Compulsory continuing education

10. Teacher profile and qualifications
Fully certified/ only part of teachers fully certified
In OECD countries 85% of teachers have university – level education
Some studies have shown limited
or no relationship between teacher educational attainment, teacher qualifications and student outcomes (Buddin and
Zamarro, 2009; Croninger et al., 2007; Harris and Sass, 2011; Larsen, 2010). Other studies and reviews have shown
positive relationships between initial education (either in terms of its level or its content) or the process of obtaining
teacher certification and teaching effectiveness (Clotfelter, Ladd and Vigdor, 2007, 2010; Darling-Hammond et al., 2005;
Monk, 1994; Ronfeldt and Reininger, 2012). For example, Ronfeldt and Reininger (2012) found that the quality (rather
than the duration) of the practical component of teacher education programmes can have positive impacts on select
outcomes of pre-service teachers, such as their perception of preparedness, their efficacy and their career plans

11. Teacher training
The system of initial and continuing training for teachers is a key factor
Lack of new teachers, this concerns bringing both young teachers and practitioners with professional experience to schools – legislation amendments ?

12. Some Estonian experience
Competence profiles of teachers/teacher education programs
Self-assesment/perfomance analyse
Flexible pathways to enter the profession
No state-level perfomance assessment
No to formally regulated complimentary training courses
VET teachers – practice periood in companies

13. Few questions VET teachers – masters?
Flexible pathways to teaching profession?
Pedagogical competences ?
Andragogical competencies?
Self-evaluation/self-analyse+ peer evaluation?

14. „Finland has vastly improved in reading, math and science literacy over the past decade in large part because its teachers are trusted to do whatever it takes to turn young lives around“.
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