Brazil : Can Providing Teachers with Feedback and Coaching Improve Learning?
Improving the classroom effectiveness of teachers is a key part of improving student learning. How to get this right is a core challenge for education systems. Teacher quality varies widely and teachers may not know the best teaching practices and...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/653031517924448302/Brazil-Can-providing-teachers-with-feedback-and-coaching-improve-learning http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29352 |
| Summary: | Improving the classroom effectiveness of
teachers is a key part of improving student learning. How to
get this right is a core challenge for education systems.
Teacher quality varies widely and teachers may not know the
best teaching practices and how to keep students on task and
engaged with the material. Especially in low-income
countries or regions, teachers may not have the resources,
knowledge or motivation to teach effectively.Governments and
development partners invest heavily in teacher training.
Evidence on which approaches raise student learning is
crucial for education progress.In Brazil, policymakers from
the Ceará state government worked with the World Bank and
the Brazilian nongovernmental Lemann Foundation to design a
programto improve secondary school teacher effectiveness.
The program provided feedback to teachers on their classroom
practices and gave them access to expert educational
coaching through one-on-one sessions delivered via Skype.
With support from the World Bank’s Strategic Impact
Evaluation Fund, the World Bank team incorporated an impact
evaluation into the program to test the effectiveness of the
approach. The evaluation found that over the course of the
year, teachers’ classroom practices improved, teachingtime
increased, students were more engaged, and
students’standardized test scores improved. Based on the
results,the Ceará government made the program’s curriculum
and technology available to municipal schools in 2017. |
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