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The role of teacher cannot be separated in teaching and learning process. In fact, teacher hold an important role to improve the quality of education especially for facing 21st century global change. In this globalization era, it drives to the increasing need of knowledge and communication to survive. It forces the teacher to take the responsibility to fulfill what the students need since the teachers meet directly to the student to meet the 21st century skills. Thus, teacher quality may strongly influence and affect the educational quality. Discussing about teacher quality, some terms will come out; good teacher, qualified teacher, and professional teacher. In developing country, those kinds of teachers are very needed to improve the quality of education. In fact, it is very rare that a teacher has three of them. Despite of that, it becomes a confusion regarding to those terms. Are they different? And how can they different? In this article, it will be discussed about the differences of good teacher, qualified teacher, and professional teacher. After defining the differences of them, we can see which one is the appropriate to be improved for developing country where in this research is for Indonesia case. In conclusion, referring to some matters in Indonesia, professional teacher should be concerned by the government to achieve the good quality in education.

This study has been carried out using the qualitative method and conversation analysis approach to explore the discourse construction of the democratic and authoritarian status of English teachers in domestic high schools. Under the guidance of theoretical framework proposed by Chen Xingren (2013), two high school English classes from Teaching Video Network are analyzed in terms of question types, lexical characteristics, turn-takings and feedbacks. The results of this study show that in the classroom interactions,Teacher A builds up his democratic identity characteristics, while Teacher B turns up to behave authoritarian identity characteristics. This study analyzes two teachers' conversational strategies in order to yield implications for teacher development as well as help them further understand the way of using conversational strategies to mobilize students' initiative.

Teacher is the key component by which education taken its place properly. To get good individual into this noble profession the Central and State government setup some Teacher Eligibility Tests throughout the country. The present study focused on both the positive and negative attitude of student teachers towards teacher eligibility test. On the basis of this purpose the study was conducted with 120 students of North Orissa University. Questionnaire was used as a tool for gathering data consists of 36 items. The findings of the study suggest that there is no significant difference between male and female student teachers attitude towards Teacher Eligibility Test further it also found that there is no significant difference between SFC and Regular background student teachers attitude towards Teacher Eligibility Test.

Several policy recommendations can be derived from the issues surrounding teacher evaluation and testing in Florida.

In this article, we studied how well teacher education in Finland is able to answer the changing needs of the contemporary world. More precisely, we focussed on the question of how well an alternative teacher education model guides teacher students' agency towards a transformational view of the teaching profession, making it possible for schools to enable social change. This question was studied in the framework of critical social pedagogy. The data for this article was collected ethnographically by observing meetings in the Critical Integrative Teacher Education (CITE) programme at the University of Jyväskylä in 2015–2017.
The analysis is based on a theoretical background in which we outline two different discourses on the concept of teachers' agency. The first promotes schools' role in conservation; teachers are expected to educate obedient and uncritical citizens to maintain steady economic growth. The second discourse is defined as critical and emancipatory, where the education pursues transformation in students' underlying attitudes and a deeper understanding of education and society.
The results showed that the CITE model fosters teacher students' critical self-reflection and understanding of group phenomena considering education. The students' ability to understand schools in a social context also develops. However, CITE seems to struggle in transforming the students' thinking and understanding into actions. According to the data, feelings of inability, cynicism and a lacklustre ability to understand concretely how teachers can have an impact on society through their profession prevent a more complete transformation in the students' everyday modes of action. A stronger community perspective, collaboration with institutions outside teacher education, the enabling of group-oriented action and the provision of real-life experiences regarding the transformation could better help to develop future teachers' agency towards transformational views.

Demands to changes of instruction for mathematics classrooms are presented in standards promoted by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Illinois State Board of Education and other government reports creates a demand for teacher professional development to support teachers to adapt to these changes of instruction. The overall purpose of this study investigated characteristics of effective professional development and how those characteristics are associated with teacher job satisfaction and teacher working conditions. With the completion of this dissertation, this study adds to the literature relevant to teacher professional development by demonstrating an association between teacher professional development and teacher working conditions. This non-experimental quantitative study examined 23 lists of characteristics of professional development to provide designers of professional development programs the frequency that specific characteristics were mentioned on the 23 lists. Also, this study administered a Likert scale questionnaire to secondary mathematics teachers to measure the teachers' perception of the three variables: teacher professional development, teacher job satisfaction, and teacher working conditions. The completed questionnaires were used to calculate measures of the three variables and these measures were used to calculate Pearson correlation coefficients. Ultimately, tests of correlations were conducted with the Pearson correlation coefficients to measure the associations between the three variables. Four research questions relating to these associations were created that guided the details of this quantitative study. The results of the data analysis revealed a statistically significant association between teacher professional development and teacher working conditions. Also, the results of a second test of correlation revealed that the association between teacher professional development and teacher job satisfaction was not significant.

Teachers are expected to build strong relationships with their students' parents, but little is known about the way they develop their perspectives on parent involvement and their competences in relating to parents. To gain insight in these developments, a survey study was conducted about the content of the curricula of three teacher training institutes in the Netherlands and the impact of teacher training on preservice teachers' attitudes and competences. Surveys were administered to a total of 545 preservice teachers from all grades of their training. Overall, it seemed that levels of competence of Dutch student teachers were quite low, despite the fact that teacher training programmes provided many curricular components on this issue. Some positive though small effects of teacher training programmes have been observed. In general, however, students don't feel well prepared to communicate with parents when starting their teaching career. Although some differences between teacher training institutes exist, the effectiveness of teacher training programmes did not appear to differ across institutes. Student teachers' attitudes towards parents were nevertheless very positive. These attitudes, however, were not related to their teacher training experiences, but seemed to be founded in their personal biography.

The young today are facing a world in which communication and information revolution has led to changes in all spheres: scientific, technological, political, economic, social and cultural. To be able to prepare our young people face the future with confidence purpose and responsibility, the crucial role of teachers cannot be overemphasized. Given these multidimensional demands, Role of teachers also have to change. In the past, teachers used to be a major source of knowledge, the leader and educator of their students school life. The changes that took place in education have initiated to change the role of teachers. In this article we will examine how the role of teachers in the present society has to change.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- 1 The Importance of Selecting the Most Effective Teachers -- 1.1 Strengthening the Teacher Workforce -- 1.2 Teacher Selection is a 'Quick Win' -- 1.3 Why Teacher Selection Matters -- 1.4 The Costs and Benefits of Teacher Selection -- 1.5 Purpose and Overview of the Book -- 1.6 Chapter Summary -- References -- Part I Identifying the Characteristics of Effective Teachers -- 2 What Does 'Teacher Effectiveness' Look like? -- 2.1 Teacher Effectiveness -- 2.2 Measuring Teacher Effectiveness -- 2.3 Trajectories of Teacher Effectiveness -- 2.4 Teacher Effectiveness and Related Outcomes -- 2.5 Are Effective Teachers Born or Made? -- 2.6 Chapter Summary -- References -- 3 The Role of Individual Attributes in Teacher Selection -- 3.1 Individual Attributes -- 3.2 The Distinction Between Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Attributes -- 3.3 Individual Attributes and Teacher Effectiveness -- 3.4 Research on Attributes Related to Teacher Effectiveness -- 3.5 Inductive, Deductive, and Integrated Approaches -- 3.6 Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Which Attributes Are Universal? -- 3.7 Chapter Summary -- References -- Part II Selection Methods and Practices: Issues and Uses -- 4 Issues and Challenges in Selection -- 4.1 Test Quality and Theoretical Models Underpinning Selection -- 4.2 Adverse Impact -- 4.3 Applicants' Perceptions of Selection Procedures -- 4.4 Faking -- 4.5 Coaching Effects -- 4.6 Chapter Summary -- References -- 5 Selection Practices and Methods in Other Fields -- 5.1 Selection Practices in Other Fields -- 5.2 Selection Methods and Their Evidence -- 5.3 What Can We Learn from Selection in Other Fields? -- 5.4 Chapter Summary -- References -- Part III Teacher Selection: Past, Present, and Future -- 6 Teacher Selection: History and Current Practices.