Teacher Quality at the Heart of Education Reforms and Movements
BACKGROUND OF THE CONFERENCE
The landscape of today’s education continues to assume new faces, paces and phases. Expanding access to education and ensuring better learning outcomes have prompted countries in the world to develop standards, protocols and mechanisms that speak of quality assurance in their systems of education. By and large, new forces shape the way schools operate, teachers deliver instruction, and learners assimilate and accommodate information. The labor market has become more demanding and exacting of the graduates’ ability to survive and contribute in the field. Responding to the dynamics and politics of change and continuity in education brings policy makers, researchers, practitioners, leaders and managers to a realm where challenges are transformed into lessons and options to better inform key actions and decisions. Since its 1997, The Network of Outstanding Teachers and Educators, as an honor society committed to “building teacher leaders”, continues to affirm that at the heart of reform initiatives is an enduring belief that teacher quality matters. The extent to which teachers as human capital and strategic resource are treated, managed, supported and developed determines successful teaching and responsive and functional student learning. CONFERENCE AIMS The 2nd International Conference and 6th National Trilevel Conference is the Network of Outstanding Teachers and Educators’ (NOTED) collective and proactive response to bring educators, school leaders and managers together across basic, higher and technical and vocational levels on relevant and meaningful discourses geared toward (i) promoting high-quality teacher workforce as the cornerstone of education developments and reforms in the country and across the region; (ii) sharing flexible and research-informed models and approaches to teacher quality; and (iii) advocating strategic management of human capital vis-à-vis deliberate policy choices and recommendations that support attracting, preparing and supporting good teachers and nurturing teacher leadership talent