SATURDAY+Stream+1d

= TEACHER QUALITY = ||
 * 11:30 – 12:45 || = STREAM 1d: DEVELOPING HIGHER CALIBRE TEACHERS: IMPROVING =
 * || =How to develop a high calibre teacher workforce to transform teacher quality? = ||
 * || Opening remarks: **//Professor Ralph Tabberer//**//, Chief Schools Officer, GEMS, UAE (moderator)// ||
 * || //Speaker panel:// ||
 * || · Professor Ralph Tabberer, Chief Schools Officer, GEMS, UAE (moderator)

· Kaya Henderson, Deputy Chancellor, District of Columbia, USA

· Helen Ladd, Professor of Public Policy, Duke Sanford School of Public Policy, USA

· Tom Payzant, Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA

· Shabda Birfani Bedi, Director of Research, Educational Research and Design, TeacherSITY, India ||

RALPH TABBERER'S COMMENTS

A few opening observations, written before the conference:


 * research studies consistently emphasize the importance of teaching quality to student achievement, school performance and, ultimately, to a country's economic performance - Hanushek's work for the World Bank provides an example of the economists' view, Hattie's great book bringing together meta analyses of many studies into 'effect size' puts teaching quality first, and McKinsey's leading consultants underline the role of great teachers
 * we should not be too surprised because, after all, schooling is a 'people business' and it's the pedagogues, peers and parents who can offer the student the most
 * but the question I would like us to keep coming back to is the one at the top of the page: HOW to develop the high calibre workforce we need
 * it will be great if we can hear from our speakers about their insights and experience which lead us to conclusions about the __how__
 * in my experience in education, the answers will lie not in a single solution but in __combining__ what we find works (and ultimately in adapting well to each country's context)
 * part of the answer may be in recruitment, part in initial teacher education, part in the professional development through someone's career, part in the way teachers are managed, part in the contribution of the wider workforce, and part in the way teachers perceive themselves...
 * I will try to bring some of England's experience to the event as well as some of the insights I have gained from working in the Gulf
 * but a prime goal for me will be to get some contributions from the audience as well as from our distinguished panel

KAYA HENDERSON'S COMMENTS

HELEN LADD'S COMMENTS

TOM PAYZANT'S COMMENTS

SHABDA BIRFANI BEDI'S COMMENTS