Teachers Performing Professionalism

Summary of the Symposium “Teachers as Learning Specialists – Implications for Teachers' Pedagogical Knowledge and Professionalism”

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Professionalism: The Perceptions of Iranian English Teachers of Competence and Performance in Language Teaching

Professionalism has been generally linked to nations’ economic, industrial, and technological developments. Therefore, having a professionally and ethically competent workforce is a necessity in today's changing world. More specifically, L2 teacher professionalism plays a crucial role in economic development too.  Given its utmost importance in language teaching, this study intended to investig...

Teachers’ perceptions of their professionalism in government primary schools in Karachi, Pakistan

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Explaining the Short Careers of High-Achieving Teachers in Schools with Low-Performing Students

Low-achieving students often are taught by the least-qualified teachers. These disparities begin when teachers take their first jobs, and in urban areas they are worsened by teachers' subsequent decisions to transfer and quit. Such quits and transfers increase disparities in at least two ways. First, more qualified teachers are substantially more likely to leave schools having the lowest-achiev...