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Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Education Book Series

Editors: Reimers, Fernando M.

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-2137-9

ISBN: 978-981-15-2136-2

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Mar 24, 2020

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Chapter 1Building Teacher Capacity to Educate the Whole Child. Lessons from Comparative Experience

Reimers, Fernando M.

Pages: 1 –28

[How should teachers be prepared in order to educate their students to address the most pressing issues of the future? Conducted over the years 2018–2019, this book presents the results of a study of large-scale teacher professional development programs that aimed at equipping students for the...
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Chapter 2Supporting Mathematics Teaching for Mastery in England

Blausten, Hannah; Gyngell, Christopher; Aichmayr, Hannes; Spengler, Natalie

Pages: 29 –49

[Supporting Mathematics Teaching for Mastery in England examines the mathematics mastery reform introduced in England in 2014. The reform sought to develop a new pedagogical approach to teaching mathematics in England through an innovative professional development program and initiative to design...
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Chapter 3Supporting Teacher Professional Development: Program Sustainability in Colombia

Raubenheimer, Chelsea; Rosenzvit, Milena; Ospina, Laura; Kim, Rin

Pages: 51 –61

[In 2012, the Ministry of Education of Colombia introduced a large-scale teacher professional development program called Todos a Aprender (PTA) to reduce the urban–rural education divide in the country. Over two presidential administrations and in the face of initial opposition, PTA has proven to...
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Chapter 4Policies for Teacher Professionalization in Mexico’s Education Reform

Hrusa, Niki A.; Moch Islas, Paul; Schneider, Jesse A.; Vega, Isamar J.

Pages: 63 –85

[This chapter examines the role of teacher and principal professional development introduced as one of the five central elements of the 2012 Reforma Educativa (RE), a large-scale education reform that sought to profoundly alter the Mexican educational system. Chief amongst the reform’s objectives...
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Chapter 5Building Teacher Capacity at the Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institution Society

Kant, Tanya; Nangia, Aditi; Satish, Usha Nikita; Shinde, Aarya

Pages: 87 –102

[In this chapter, we explore the effects of teacher professional development on student achievement at a high-performing public school network in Telangana, India. The school network is the Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (TSWREIS). The aim of TSWREIS is to...
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Chapter 6Cambodia’s New Generation Schools Reform

Donaher, Melissa; Wu, Nuoya

Pages: 103 –120

[The New Generation Schools (NGS) reform in Cambodia was launched in 2015 with the aim of improving the quality and relevance of education to better prepare Cambodian youth for the twenty-first-century workforce. The reform aims to develop students’ cognitive competencies, with a particular focus...
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Chapter 7Twenty-First Century Learning in Burlington Public Schools

Mhapadi, Karishma; Moniz, Brittany; Mosso, Franco; Sagun, Rose

Pages: 121 –135

[The world is advancing toward a new paradigm of education, one in which students are no longer required to excel only at standardized testing, but to foster competencies, such as empathy, citizenship, and creative thinking, which will equip them to solve the complex problems that lie ahead of...

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