Teacher quality: Key to succes

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Teacher quality Key to succes?
presentation by Hans Piederiet date 5th of
January 2009 Cypress
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Deltaplus objectives

• Enduring quality-improvement of education
• Better pupilresults in Dutch language,
  mathematics/ arithmetic and social competence.

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General information

• 54 primary schools started in 1999
• Duration 10 years
• First two years innovation conditions
• Year 3-10 intensive teacher counceling
• Financed by local government (Rotterdam)/schoolboa
  rds
• Intensive cooperation between schoolboards,
  schoolmanagement and CED groep
• Multidisciplinary approach Experts in the field
  of dutch language, mathematics, social
  competences, schoolorganisation and pupil care
  work together
• Involvement of management and schoolteam to
  create committment

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Evaluation model
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Basic assumptions

• Intensive professional counceling of teachers
  instruction behavior in the classroom is
  effective
• Effective innovations last long and are
  systematic
• Intensive counceling of the internal counceling
  structure, including the frequent evaluation of
  pupil results is effective
• Effective education is supported by the use of
  good materials, adjusted to the pupil population
  of the school
• Adjustment to the specific schoolconditions is
  necessary to guarantee readiness to innovation

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Results 1
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Results 2
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Results 3
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Results 4
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Results 5
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Results 6

• Social competences
• 66 of participating schools now monitor the
  development of children in this domain
• 82 of participating schools have a policy plan
  for this domain

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Factors influencing pupil results

• Teacher instruction behaviour
• Schoolboards
• Management
• Stability
• Data driven education
• Materials