Looser requirements for teacher certification don’t fix teachers’ problems, which are low pay, high workload and lack of respect.
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The first challenge is to attract new teachers, the second is to keep them. More pay might help with recruitment, but research suggests we need to look at the conditions of work to stem the losses.
What South Africa needs to do to recruit the number of teachers needed to offer quality education.
Culturally-responsive student assessment and evaluation is key to student success in diverse, globalized societies.
The New Zealand government’s strategy to import teachers from the UK, Canada, South Africa, Australia and Fiji will do little to improve representation for indigenous Māori in the teacher workforce.
Private school teachers are generally happier than state school teachers, but not for the reasons you might think.
Recruiting specialist teachers takes more than just encouraging them to study science and maths at university. Governments and wider society needs to come on board too.
Redesigning staffing policies will attract and retain high-quality teachers in the schools that need them most.
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Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Education Policy and Leadership, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Education, Monash University
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Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Sydney
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Te Wānanga Toi Tangata Division of Education; Professor of Measurement, Assessment and Evaluation, University of Waikato
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Research Professor in the School of Professional Studies in Education Studies, North-West University
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