Teachers in Anglophone Africa : issues in teacher supply, training, and management / Aidan Mulkeen.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Mulkeen, Aidan.

Series:

Development practice in education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--Training of--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Case studies.

Teachers.

Education--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Case studies.

Education.

Teachers--Training of.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : World Bank, 2010.

Summary:

Teachers are at the heart of good education, and good teacher policies are essential to ensure adequate supply, deployment and management of teachers. Enrollment in primary education has grown rapidly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet teacher policy in the region has often evolved without clear planning; in the absence of an overall strategy, countries have experienced serious problem with teacher supply and deployment, as well as with the quality of teaching.

Basd on case studies of education system and practices in eight English-speaking African countries, Teachers in Anglophone Africa: Issues in Teacher Supply, Training, and Management closely examines issues of teacher supply, deployment, management and finance. The book suggests that these issues are closely interrelated. Low numbers of qualified teaching graduates may result in teacher shortages; these shortages may make it difficult to deploy teachers effectively. Problems with teacher deployment may result in inefficient to deploy teachers effectively. Problems with teacher deployment may result in inefficient utilization of the teacher available, and those teachers' effectiveness may be further reduced by weak teacher management and support systems. The book identifies policies and practices that are working on the ground, noting their potential pitfalls and pointing out that policies designed to address one problem may make another problem worse.

Teachers in Anglophone Africa: Issues in Teacher Supply, Training, and Management offers a useful synthesis of the issues and draws together a series of promising practices, which can serve as positive suggestions for countries seeking to improve their teacher policies. The book should be of great assistance to education ministries and their development partners throughout the region as they address the challenges of the next phases of expansion in education.

Contents:

Overview 1

Supply 1

Deployment 2

Utilization 3

Impact of HIV 4

Teacher Training 4

Management 5

The Teacher Career Structure 6

Teacher Finance 7

Teacher Issues-An Interconnected System 8

Promising Practices 8

Chapter 1 Introduction 13

Context: Teachers and Trends 15

Note 20

Part I Teacher Provision

Chapter 2 Teacher Supply 23

Teacher Shortages 24

Subject-Specific Shortages 27

School Leavers as a Constraint on Teacher Training 28

Planning for Teacher Supply 30

Guidelines for Planning Teacher Supply 35

Directions for Policy Makers 38

Chapter 3 Teacher Deployment: Getting Teachers to the Right Places 41

Uneven Teacher Distribution 42

Deployment Systems 45

Directions for Policy Makers 52

Chapter 4 Teacher Utilization 61

Teacher Workloads 62

Double-Shift Teaching 66

Multigrade Teaching 68

Directions for Policy Makers 68

Note 70

Part II Teacher Training

Chapter 5 Pre-Service Teacher Training 73

Structure and Duration of Initial Teacher Training 73

Content of Initial Teacher Training 81

Teaching Practice 84

Teacher Trainers 87

Directions for Policy Makers 88

Note 90

Chapter 6 In-Service Training for Unqualified and Upgrading Teachers 91

In-service Training for Unqualified Teachers 91

Upgrading Qualifications 95

In-service Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and Support Systems 96

Directions for Policy Makers 101

Part III After They are Qualified: Teachers as Professionals

Chapter 7 Supervision of Teachers

School Head Teachers 108

Supervision and Inspection 112

Teachers Unions 116

Community Involvement: PTAs and SMCs 118

Directions for Policy Makers 120

Note 122

Chapter 8 Teacher Absence, Pay Distribution, and Discipline 123

Teacher Absenteeism 123

Responses to Absenteeism 126

Ghost Teachers 131

Delivery of Pay 131

Disciplinary Systems 135

Directions for Policy Makers 136

Chapter 9 The Teaching Career 139

The Dominance of Permanent Public-Service Teachers 140

Teacher Salary Progression 142

Opportunities for Promotion 143

Paid Study Leave 146

Directions for Policy Makers 147

Part IV Financing Teachers

Chapter 10 Teacher Finance 151

The Challenge of Education Finance 152

Primary Teacher Remuneration 155

Financing the Expansion of Secondary Education 161

Implications for Policy Makers 163

Note 164

Part V Conclusion

Chapter 11 Challenges, Trends, and Promising Practices 167

Supply 167

Distribution 170

Utilization 172

Training 173

Management 175

Teacher Finance 179

Gender Perspective 180

HIV 180

Teacher Issues-An Interconnected System 182

Promising Practices 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821380536

0821380532

OCLC:

422756062