As debate on the Queen's Speech resumed on 2 June 2010, the education secretary said the General Teaching Council for England did not help children learn or aid teachers' development so it had to go.
All teachers need professional development throughout their careers, with continuous feedback between theory, practice, and research.
Some schools districts use this to target struggling teachers with professional development.
The One Laptop Per Child initiative in particular gathered significant publicity and hype for its admirable goals, but people implementing it in many countries appeared not to have thought through the professional development teachers would need or, even more importantly, a redesign of the schooling model itself to leverage the considerable benefits that digital learning can deliver.
He spoke of various interventions launched by present government on professional development of teachers, including Associate Degree in Education (ADE).
The report also recommends better continuing professional development for teachers and a college of teaching along the lines of a professional institute.
The third goal of Mobile Learning Week was to explore how mobile technologies can be used to support teachers and their professional development.
"I would be pleased with a two-to-one ratio, " said Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, professor of child development at Teachers College at Columbia University in New York.
We are now compiling libraries of tens of thousands of videos, and we plan to use these videos to advance professional development for teachers.
We have also taken the lead in fighting for the resources students need to meet higher standards, high-quality professional development for teachers, and after-school and summer-school schemes to help children who may be falling behind.
Currently the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Department in the Solomon Islands is planning to continue with in-service professional development for teachers in two more provinces with the aim of increasing the number of teachers with certification.
The Council of Great City Schools, a research and policy group that represents large districts, commissioned a study that found districts making the most progress had stable leadership, high academic goals for students, quality professional development for teachers and data analysis that helped alter teaching.
Whether it is to teach a career development curriculum or to conduct courses infused with career education the professional development of teachers should give them a basic framework for career planning and how to connect activities in the classroom to the events unfolding in the labour market.
Equally important is the establishment of career development plans for teachers and other professionals in the education sector.
The involvement of stakeholders (including and especially teachers), in the development of the written curriculum is of paramount importance for ensuring ownership and sustainability of curriculum processes.
National and sub-national government bodies, development agencies, teachers unions, the media, families, communities, universities and research centres must work together in order for the school system to fulfill its mission in the best possible way.
Cariscience coordinates exchanges between researchers, teachers and students, organizes joint research projects and regional courses, supports curriculum development and the training of science teachers.
As part of this program, UNESCO and Nokia are joining hands, where Nokia is providing its mobile phones and its application "Nokia Education Delivery (NED)" for UNESCO s project on use of ICT for professional development of public school teachers in remote areas.
Societies which respect their teachers go a long way in the development of their country and nations.
Those who do well can find jobs as village teachers, or work for government or development organisations.
Secondly, I do think we significantly under-invest in teacher development that matters and paying teachers for leadership work.
We have people working in our youth development structure who have been teachers and coaches in their background.
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Improving the quality of teaching in the classroom by improving the preparation, professional development, and evaluation of teachers and principals.
We have added two English as a Second Language(ESL) teachers, as well as provided staff development on best practices for teaching ESL students.
Nepal's teachers should have access to ongoing professional development.
Though schools try to utilize teachers as mentors more and more often these days, compensating teachers for long term investments in curriculum development and alignment is still fairly rare (though to be fair, it seems to be on the increase as well, from what I can tell anecdotally).
Lastly, Wisconsin now requires online teachers to have completed 30 hours of professional development.
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Teachers want more responsibility in relation to curriculum development, assessment, selection of students, conselling and their own professional development needs.
The union afterwards welcomed the development, saying it would give teachers more time to get to know pupils joining the foundation phase without having to worry about assessment.
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