Description: Teachers' Incentives and Professional Development in Schools in Mexico

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Teachers' Incentives and Professional Development in Schools in Mexico

The quality of education is a determining factor in a nation's competitiveness. To compete globally, Mexico needs to raise its education standards. Several innovations to raise the quality of basic education at the federal and state levels hav...

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Main Author:	Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	ACHIEVEMENT SCORES ACHIEVEMENT TESTS AGED BASIC EDUCATION CLASSROOM SIZE CLASSROOM TEACHERS CLASSROOM TEACHING CLASSROOMS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS COOPERATIVE LEARNING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION EDUCATION POLICY EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION STANDARDS EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT EDUCATIONAL DECENTRALIZATION EDUCATIONAL SERVICES EFFECTIVE TEACHING EMPLOYMENT ENROLLMENT EXERCISES FINANCIAL RESOURCES FORMAL EDUCATION FREE TEXTBOOK GRADING HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSING LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LEARNING LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT LEARNING PROCESS LOW ACHIEVEMENT MATHEMATICS MOTIVATION NEGATIVE IMPACT OCCUPATIONS OTHER EDUCATION STAKEHOLDERS PAPERS PARENTS PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES PER CAPITA INCOME POSITIVE IMPACT POVERTY REDUCTION PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY STUDENTS PRINCIPALS PRIVATE SECTOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROFESSORS PROFICIENCY PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUBLIC SECTOR PUPILS QUALITY OF EDUCATION READING READING COMPREHENSION REASONING REPETITION RETIREMENT RURAL AREAS RURAL SCHOOLS SCHOOL EDUCATION SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS SCHOOL EFFECTS SCHOOL FACTORS SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT SCHOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL PERFORMANCE SCHOOL QUALITY SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLS SECONDARY STUDENTS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT TEACHER TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS TEACHER QUALITY TEACHER SALARIES TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS TEACHING METHODS TENURE TERTIARY EDUCATION TEST SCORES TEXTBOOK PRODUCTION TEXTBOOKS TRAINING OF TEACHERS TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES UNIVERSITIES URBAN AREAS URBAN SCHOOLS WORKERS WORKING CONDITIONS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/02/1711111/teachers-incentives-professional-development-schools-mexico http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15632

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Summary:	The quality of education is a determining factor in a nation's competitiveness. To compete globally, Mexico needs to raise its education standards. Several innovations to raise the quality of basic education at the federal and state levels have been developed: professional training of teachers, new "learning presence in schools," and improvement of working conditions and salaries of teachers. The author examines teachers' incentives and their impact on students' learning achievement. She shows that early in their professional lives, teachers in basic public schools are better paid than in other comparable groups. She also finds that some incentives for teachers at the school level improve learning achievement. For instance, the enrollment of teachers in the Carrera Magisterial program has a positive effect on students' learning achievement. Furthermore, teachers' training is most effective when targeted toward increasing their practical experience and developing content-specific knowledge.