Preparing Teachers and Developing School Leaders for the 21st Century Lessons from around the World

This book uses PISA data to show that a substantial proportion of students in OECD countries now attend schools that have high degrees of autonomy in different areas of decision making. But effective school autonomy depends on effective leaders, including system leaders, principals, teacher leaders,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schleicher, Andreas
Corporate Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2012
Series:International Summit on the Teaching Profession
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Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book uses PISA data to show that a substantial proportion of students in OECD countries now attend schools that have high degrees of autonomy in different areas of decision making. But effective school autonomy depends on effective leaders, including system leaders, principals, teacher leaders, senior teachers, and head teachers, as well as strong support systems. That, in turn, requires well-distributed leadership, new types of training and development for school leaders, and appropriate support and incentives
Physical Description:108 p. 21 x 28cm
ISBN:9789264174559