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Teachers’ Professional Development: Europe in international comparison

A secondary analysis based on the TALIS dataset

This report presents a secondary analysis and an enlarged interpretation of the results on teachers’ professional development from the OECD’s Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). TALIS is the first international survey to focus on the working conditions of teachers and the learning environment in schools. Its aim is to help countries to review and develop policies that foster the conditions for effective schooling.

	Introduction
	Chapter 1 European Political Context
	Chapter 2 Conceptualizing Teacher Professional Development as a Means to Enhancing Educational Effectiveness
	Chapter 3 State of Affairs with Respect to Teacher Professional Development in Europe; Results from Earlier Studies
	Chapter 4 Professional Development of Teachers – A Snapshot from TALIS of Lower Secondary Education
	Chapter 5 Explaining teachers’ perceived impact of professional development
	Chapter 6 Teachers professional development in countries which did not take part in TALIS
	Chapter 7 Executive Summary and Main Conclusions

In depth

• Schools for the 21st century
• Key competences
• Teacher education
• Early childhood education
• Early school leaving
• Migration and education
• School-Business co-operation
• Literacy