This is an overview of policy briefs on continuous professional development of teachers, from the ealiest years onward.Studies focussed on the early years are: Effective Teachers and Performance Standards, which looks at how formal qualifications of teachers, and other information frequently recorded on a database of teachers, seldom predict effectiveness in raising student achievement. Accreditation of teacher education institutions and programs
Teacher Certification
Teacher Educators and Initial Teacher Education Programs
Teacher Recruitment and Deployment (paper forthcoming). Papers focussed on the years after the initial training are: Induction Programs for Newly Trained Teachers
Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
Teacher Support Networks
Teacher Motivation: Incentives and Working Conditions
Teacher Supervision and Monitoring (paper forthcoming)
Teacher Collaboration (paper forthcoming)
Professional Development Frameworks (paper forthcoming)
Role of Unions/Professional Associations to Support Teachers (paper forthcoming). Additonal topics are: HIV and AIDS and Teachers, and Specific Skill Development including use of technology and multi-grade instruction (papers forthcoming).