This seminar is the second in a series which brings together
practitioners, researchers and policy-makers who are committed to
enhancing the development of the teaching profession. After the success
of the 2012 seminar on the Future of the Teaching Profession, the
agreement to hold a second demonstrates a shared recognition that
system-wide teacher policies are vital to the success of education in
every country. The seminars are intended to strengthen the discourse on
the future of teaching and teachers and are held prior to the
International Summits, whose focus is at a government and...
This session in the afternoon of the second day focused on illuminative accounts of practice from the UK (Chris Ingate and Val Hill), Ghana (George Oduro), The Netherlands (Susanne Winnbust and Simon Verwer) and Bosnia & Herzegovina (Ivona Čelebičić). These were all practice-focused and in...
Published 03/05/13
Representatives of the organisations who had been part of the planning group made presentations in which they reflected broadly on the themes of the seminar; Mary Metcalfe (Open Society Foundations), Hans Ruesink (The Netherlands Ministry), John MacBeath (Leadership for Learning: the Cambridge...
Published 02/27/13
Tuesday morning considered the seminar theme from the perspective of teachers. John MacBeath (Professor Emeritus University of Cambridge) framed the morning, followed by contributions from Ron Thorpe (President and CEO, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards), Tünde Kovacs (OSF and...
Published 02/27/13