Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments

Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments

First Results fromTALIS

T e a c h i n g A n d L e a r n i n g I n t e r n at i o n a l S u r vey

Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments

First Results from TALIS

Teaching And Learning International Survey

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Foreword

The challenges facing education systems and teachers continue to intensify. In modern knowledge-based economies, where the demand for high-level skills will continue to grow substantially, the task in many countries is to transform traditional models of schooling, which have been effective at distinguishing those who are more academically talented from those who are less so, into customised learning systems that identify and develop the talents of all students. This will require the creation of "knowledge-rich", evidence-based education systems, in which school leaders and teachers act as a professional community with the authority to act, the necessary information to do so wisely, and the access to effective support systems to assist them in implementing change.

The OECD's Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) provides insights into how education systems are responding by providing the first internationally comparative perspective on the conditions of teaching and learning. TALIS draws on the OECD's 2005 review of teacher policy, which identified important gaps in international data, and aims to help countries review and develop policies to make the teaching profession more attractive and more effective. TALIS is conceptualised as a programme of surveys, with successive rounds designed to address policy-relevant issues chosen by countries.

With a focus in this initial round on lower secondary education in both the public and private sectors, TALIS examines important aspects of teachers' professional development; teacher beliefs, attitudes and practices; teacher appraisal and feedback; and school leadership in the 23 participating countries.

The results from TALIS suggest that, in many countries, education is still far from being a knowledge industry in the sense that its own practices are not yet being transformed by knowledge about the efficacy of those practices. The 23 countries that have taken part in TALIS illustrate the growing interest in the lessons that might be learned from teacher policies and practices employed elsewhere. TALIS provides a first, groundbreaking instrument to allow countries to see their own teaching profession in the light of what other countries show can be achieved. Naturally, policy solutions should not simply be copies of other educational systems or experiences, but comparative analysis can provide an understanding of the policy drivers that contribute to successful teacher policies and help to situate and configure these policy drivers in the respective national contexts.

TALIS is a collaborative effort by member countries of the OECD and partner countries within the TALIS organisational framework. In addition, collaboration and support from the European Commission has helped TALIS address important information needs of the Commission in its monitoring of progress towards the Lisbon 2010 goals.

The report was produced by the Indicators and Analysis Division of the OECD Directorate for Education. Theproject has been led by Michael Davidson, who with Ben Jensen, co-ordinated the drafting and analysis forthe report. The principal authors of the analytical chapters were: Michael Davidson (Chapter 3), BenJensen (Chapters2, 5 and 7), Eckhard Klieme and Svenja Vieluf (Chapter4), and David Baker (Chapter 6). Additional advice as well as analytical and editorial support was provided by Etienne Albiser, Tracey Burns, Ralph Carstens, Eric Charbonnier, Pedro Lenin Garc?a de Le?n, Corinne Heckmann, Donald Hirsch, Miyako Ikeda, Maciej Jakubowski, David Kaplan, Juan Leon, Plamen Mirazchiyski, Soojin Park, Leslie Rutkowski, Andreas Schleicher, Diana Toledo Figueroa, Fonsvande Vijver, Elisabeth Villoutreix and Jean Yip. Administrative support was provided by Isabelle Moulherat.

Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments: First Results from TALIS ? ISBN 978-92-64-05605-3 ? OECD 2009

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