29.052 - Leveraging Educational Equity and Excellence Through In-Service Teacher Education: Lessons From an International Study of Teaching Policy

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This symposium presents findings from the International Study of Teaching Policy, a two year research project producing a comprehensive description of the policies and practices related to teaching quality used by jurisdictions that have highly developed systems of support for teachers and teaching: Australia, Canada, Hong Kong and Shanghai, Finland, and Singapore.

The study offers lessons on teaching policies from multiple cultural, linguistic, and heritage contexts that have evidence of simultaneously addressing excellence and equity. In significant ways, over time, the jurisdictions studied have “changed their worlds” in the direction of opportunity and access to excellence for all.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education

Chair

• Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University

Papers

• The Teacher as Teacher, Teacher Educator, and Researcher: The Jiaoyanzu in Shanghai - Mistilina D. Sato, University of Minnesota

• Teachers' Professional Learning: A School-Based Approach - Kai Ming Cheng, University of Hong Kong

• Teacher Learning and Leadership Program in Ontario, Canada - Carol Campbell, University of Toronto - OISE; Ann Lieberman, Stanford University

• Teacher Learning to Improve Student Learning: Professional Development Policy and Impact in New South Wales - Ann McIntyre, New South Wales Department of Education and Communities; Dion Burns, Learning Policy Institute

Discussant

• Marc S. Tucker, National Center on Education and the Economy