The volume considers teacher professionalization by examining how to create pipelines from secondary education into teaching; preparing teacher educators; creating linkages between providers of teacher education and the schools.

Introduction: The Challenges of Teacher Effectiveness and Quality Worldwide. The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Strategy on Teacher Statistics: Developing Effective Measures of Quantity and Quality in Education. Measuring Teachers’ Professional Learning Activities in International Context. The Influence of Teacher Education on Mathematics Teaching Knowledge: Local Implementation of Global Ideals. No Teacher Is an Island: How Social Networks Shape Teacher Quality. Building and Sustaining a Quality STEM Teacher Workforce: Access to Instructional Leadership and the Interruptions of Educator Turnover. Regimes of Teacher Beliefs from a Comparative and International Perspective. Unpacking Teacher Differences in Didaktik and Curriculum Traditions: Trends from TIMSS 2003, 2007, and 2011. Conceptual Understandings of Democracy and Values as Aspects of Teacher Quality – The Case of Teacher Education in Sweden. Exploring Novice Teachers’ Core Competencies. Teachers’ Responses to Changes in Teacher Evaluation Policy in Korea and the United States. Current Trends in the Framing of Teacher Qualities. Indicators of Quality in Teacher Education: Looking at Features of Teacher Education from an International Perspective. World Culture and Teacher Quality: Consensus, Convergence, and Conflict. Copyright page. Promoting and Sustaining a Quality Teacher Workforce. International Perspectives on Education and Society. Promoting and Sustaining a Quality Teacher Workforce. List of Contributors. About the Authors. Index.