A Teacher’s Background and Preparation

Research clearly shows that the teacher is the most critical factor in any classroom. The priority of any education system is to ensure that teachers are well prepared and receive ongoing professional learning. Teachers are the resilience infrastructure of the education system and

often the first people students turn to for guidance, stability, and perspective when they feel anxious.

Investing in teacher resilience, training, and support is one of the highest-leverage moves an adaptive education system can make.


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Teachers’ Background & Preparation

Research clearly shows that the teacher is the most critical factor in any classroom. The priority of any education system is to ensure that teachers are well prepared and receive ongoing professional learning. In a high-quality educational system, teachers continue to learn how to improve their relationships with students, their instructional approaches, and their knowledge of the curriculum.

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Instructional Practices

Skilled and knowledgeable teachers develop instructional practices that support students’ independent, critical, and creative thinking and learning. They also learn how to access valid, reliable information.

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School & Classroom Environment

Students need to learn in a safe and caring environment where relationships amongst students and between students and teachers are positive, collaborative, and supportive. Then learning can take place in a diversity of ways.