SC TEACHER's research mission includes publishing yearly reports that detail the South Carolina educator workforce, sharing insights with educators themselves, policymakers, community members, and other stakeholders. This report is an annual review of the state's public school teacher workforce. Analysis in this study uses statewide data from…

Effective teacher management -- aimed at building teachers' status, skills, motivation, wellbeing, and retention -- is a key policy lever that can help Uganda to achieve its aim of developing and sustaining a high-quality, inclusive, and equitable education system for all learners, including refugees and vulnerable Ugandans. This policy brief aims…

This paper reports on the implementation of a Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA), a component of graduation recently introduced into the teaching workforce in Australia. The TPA typically requires graduates to demonstrate that they can plan, implement, assess and reflect on a series of lessons given to school students. This case study used…

This qualitative case study explored the perspectives of two high school teachers who approach their work as reflective practitioners, capable of thinking deeply about systemic issues and teachers' work lives. Our research questions included: 1) how do the conditions of schooling influence an intellectual approach to teachers' work?; 2) how do…

This article details the experiences of four teacher education faculty members as we navigated the consequential implementation of a state-mandated high stakes teacher performance assessment in our educator preparation program. By shifting our perspective from simply complying with an assessment mandate to considering how we can leverage…

With the addition of the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) as a high-stakes, consequential standardized examination for teacher licensure, the practice of training new generations of educators using principles of Invitational Education (IE) Theory when making andragogic decisions arrives at an intersection. Teacher preparation…

We examine the dynamic nature of teacher skill development using panel data on principals' subjective performance ratings of teachers. Past research on teacher productivity improvement has focused primarily on one important but narrow measure of performance: teachers' value-added to student achievement on standardized tests. Unlike value-added,…

This document describes PPfT school-wide value-added measure by showing how to gain access to your SAS Education Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS) account, stepping through the school growth measures, and discussing how growth is scored in PPfT appraisal.

What happens when a group of veteran Professional Development School (PDS) teachers decide to challenge a school of education's edTPA policy and take the learning outcomes for their student teachers into their own hands? This article describes the authors' journey to transform student teaching practices at their PDS. As co-authors of this article,…

This correlational and causal-comparative study examined the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and teacher practice. The participants (n = 73), non-tenured elementary teachers, were asked to complete the Genos Emotional Intelligence Inventory-full version to determine their emotional intelligence in the workplace. Additionally,…

The purpose of this Q study was to create a standard of practice for training and evaluation of online teachers in higher education. Chickering and Gamson's 1989 study on seven principles for effective teaching was used as a categorical baseline for this research. Research questions included "To what extent do emerging Q factors align with…

The purpose of the present study was to assess the explanatory power of certain institutional and teacher factors as predictors of job satisfaction of Saudi Arabian teachers at the elementary level. This study examined how these variables of administrative support, teacher evaluation, teacher autonomy, and teacher attitudes relate to job…

Implementation of Bhutan Professional Standards for Teachers in Bhutan is a key impetus for teachers across the country to enhance impeccable teacher competency. Studies on teachers' attitudes towards professional standards show a positive as there was a significant correlation between teachers' competencies, learners' academic achievement, and…

Based extensive fieldwork and interviews, this study explains teacher evaluation policy enactment as shaped by three conditions: (1) a principal's backgrounds, role perceptions, knowledge of instruction, and interactions with teachers; (2) teachers' perspectives; and (3) environmental demands. Notably, principals may lack the backgrounds,…

Video observation and content analysis are used to make a "quantitative-qualitative" analysis of English teachers' teaching behavior reflected in English classroom teaching videos, and to accurately describe, analyze, and summarize the characteristics of English teachers' teaching behavior from various aspects. Based on this, this study…