OECD Economic Surveys: Iceland 2019 by OECD

Author:OECD
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: economics
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2019-09-16T00:00:00+00:00

As a welcome step towards improving teaching quality, a new teacher competency framework was developed that will form the basis for teacher education and certification, hiring and promotion processes, professional development and training, and teacher appraisal. The new framework is expected by the authorities to provide a clear guidance to school leaders to focus on teachers’ training and make it more performance oriented.

Recent initiatives also aim to increase the attractiveness of the teaching profession to young people through the launching of a campaign to enhance the image of the profession at pre-primary and compulsory schools and changes in initial teacher education. The latter include the provision of grants to students during their fifth year of study in order to reduce the need for student loans at the last year, in addition to making the fifth year a part-time paid apprenticeship (see above). Moreover, a law in 2019 introduces a common teacher certificate for all three school levels (pre-primary, compulsory, and upper secondary education), instead of three different ones as is currently the case, which could facilitate teacher mobility between schools and across school education levels.

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