By Dion Burns and Linda Darling-Hammond
Educating students with the competencies required for the knowledge economies of
the 21st century has increased the complexity of teaching. High-performing education
systems tend to be those where the teaching profession is valued in society; that are
able to attract high-quality individuals into teaching, train them well, and retain them
in the profession by putting in place supports that address the working conditions in
the schools they work; and support their ongoing professional learning. TALIS tells us
that valuing teaching and teacher learning, restructuring the work of teaching to enable
greater professional collaboration, and providing meaningful feedback to teachers to
support their work can help create a more attractive and efficacious teaching workforce.
