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Choose and Curate toward Commitment to Capable and Committed Teachers (5Cs): A Set of Principles for Teacher Career Reform

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Yue-Yi Hwa

RISE Directorate

Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Overview

Classroom teaching is complex. This means that pursuing a vision of empowered, highly respected, strongly performance-normed, contextually embedded teaching professionals who cultivate student learning requires a systemic approach to teacher career reform. One such approach is a set of principles called the 5Cs: choose and curate toward commitment to capable and committed teachers.1

  • Education authorities must initially choose prospective teachers based on the best available information.
  • Education authorities should also designate the novice phase as a period of curation involving extensive support for teachers’ pedagogical development and careful identification of those teachers who are most likely to make sustained, careerlong contributions to student learning.    
  • Such teachers must be technically capable and equipped for cultivating student learning in their specific school, classroom, and curricular contexts.
  • Additionally, teachers must also be motivationally committed to the systemwide purpose of cultivating children’s learning.
  • After these teachers have demonstrated their capability and commitment, education authorities should make a long-term employment commitment to them.

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Footnotes

  • 1Hwa, Y-Y. and Pritchett, L. 2021. Teacher Careers in Education Systems That Are Coherent for Learning: Choose and Curate Toward Commitment to Capable and Committed Teachers (5Cs). Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE). https://doi.org/10.35489/BSG-RISE-Misc_2021/02.

Citation:

Hwa, Y-Y. 2023. Choose and Curate toward Commitment to Capable and Committed teachers (5Cs): A Set of Principles for Teacher Career Reform. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE). https://doi.org/10.35489/BSG-RISE-IB_2023/02