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Hemispheric Project Report

Hemispheric Project Report. Responses to the challenge of improving the quality of recruitment and selection, initial formation, professional development and evaluation of teachers in countries in the hemisphere . Participating Countries. 31 countries

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Hemispheric Project Report

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  1. Hemispheric Project Report Responses to the challenge of improving the quality of recruitment and selection, initial formation, professional development and evaluation of teachers in countries in the hemisphere

  2. Participating Countries • 31 countries • Caribbean Sub-region: Trinidad and Tobago (Sub-regional Coordinator), Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis, The Bahamas, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Suriname, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica. • Andean Sub-region: Peru (Sub-regional Coordinator), Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador. • MERCOSUR Sub-region: Paraguay (Sub-regional Coordinator), Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay.

  3. Project Goal • To support the improvement of educational quality in the Americas by ensuring better-prepared and more qualified teachers through defining policies based on information gained from comparable indicators, successful experiences and hemispheric collaboration.[1] • [1] Research suggests that teacher education yields the single biggest rate of return to educational quality in some cases even surpassing socio-econ. background.

  4. Purpose • To inform and transform the teacher preparation and professional development policies and practices, to allow national ministries of education to effect a change in a significant percentage of teacher education institutions (in each country and by extension, region) to produce professional teachers with high-performing competencies.

  5. Outputs • Policy development • Regionally standardized teacher education programs and performance appraisal systems established • On-going professional development programs • Hemispheric interchanges among and within sub-regions on successful teacher education programs

  6. What is being attempted is the transformation of an entire system of education across the region. • It will succeed where there is the political will and the allocation of economic resources. • It will succeed if it has strong stakeholder support. • The contents of reports have to filter down to all stakeholders including teachers and there has to be distilled to them what is in it for them.

  7. Recommendations from the Evaluation • An awareness campaign in all the countries • There must be someone managing media information to ensure that correct information is being disseminated e.g. newsletter, brochures • There should be continuous dialogue with respect to the key issues

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