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A good teacher in every classroom.

Publication: Australian Journal of Education
Publication Date: 01-APR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A good teacher in every classroom.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
A good teacher in every classroom Linda Darling-Hammond and Joan Baratz-Snowden (Eds.) San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005 ISBN 787 974 668

There has been growing realisation that the major equity issue in education is the provision of quality teaching. A vast and compelling body of educational research has demonstrated that it is the teacher who accounts for most of the variance in student achievement, the individual student's capacities aside.

The OECD report Quality in Teaching (1994) pointed to the imperative for promoting high quality teaching in every country, educational system, school and classroom. As part of this imperative, there has been a fundamental shift in school leadership from the management paradigm of the 1980s and 1990s to a new focus on leadership for teaching and learning. This shift in emphasis has coincided with the wider development and application of professional teaching standards and teacher...

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