The important role that school leadership can play in creating effective schools is well documented. TALIS illustrates the roles and functions that school leaders adopt within schools – often facing quite different circumstances – and examines how these roles support teachers in their work. Retaining and developing effective teachers is a priority in all school systems and TALIS examines how te...

Professional development for schools and institutions is often ineffective, and costly (Gates Foundation, 2014). When teachers are permitted to choose their own professional development, their satisfaction and adoption of new pedagogies increases. Due to the nature of personal preferences and a focus on individualized professional development to increase teacher learning, multiple pedagogies wi...

Technology has become integrated into many facets of our lives. Due to the rapid onset of this integration, many current K-12 teachers do not have the skills required to supply the sudden demand for technical training. This deficit, in turn, has created a demand for professional development programs that allow working teachers to learn computer science so that they might become qualified to tea...

I analyze current policy and practice relating to the preparation and selection of teachers for rural areas of Australia and, in turn, contrast these to the corresponding perceptions of rural teachers. Conclusions are drawn regarding (a) the need for specialised preparation programmes for rural teachers and (b) the responsibility of education departments in the development of specific rural sta...

The U.S. educational system invests heavily, in both time and money, in continuing education for teachers. In this article Heather Hill examines the effectiveness of two forms of teacher learning-graduate coursework and professional development. She focuses first on graduate education. Almost half of all teachers have a master's degree. Many states allow graduate coursework to count toward rece...

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professional development for K–5 teachers often includes engineering design as a focus. Because engineering applications provide perspective to both teachers and their students in terms of how mathematic and scientific principles are employed to solve real-world problems (Baine, 2004; Roden, 1997), there is great interest in using enginee...

in spite of the importance of teacher's motivation only a limited number of studies have been conducted on teacher's demotivation in iran. this study was an attempt to investigate demotivating factors among iranian efl language institute teachers in terms of years of teaching experience. to this end, the researchers tried to utilize a questionnaire as a research method. to collect dat...

This background paper was commissioned by AITSL in April 2011 to inform the development of a national professional development framework for Australian teachers and school leaders. The views, findings, conclusions and recommendations herein are those of the authors ad do not necessarily represent the official positions or policies of AITSL or the educational institutions of the authors. 1 A bac...