A Flying Start
Improving Initial Teacher Preparation Systems
Addressing teacher education in all its complexity is fundamental to ensuring that
all students reach their potential in today’s increasingly diverse classrooms and
rapidly changing environment. This report provides insight into key features of selected
teacher preparation systems by analysing the information collected in the OECD Initial
Teacher Preparation (ITP) study. The ITP study investigated the policy environments
of the first phase of continuous teacher learning in seven countries to identify challenges,
strengths and innovations: Australia, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, the United
States and Wales (United Kingdom).
A Flying Start: Improving Initial Teacher Preparation Systems describes the challenges
of designing and sustaining initial teacher preparation systems and proposes strategies
for different levels of the system (policy, teacher education institutions and schools),
based on both international evidence and practices identified in the study. The report
can therefore act as a resource for policy makers, teacher educators, educational
leaders, teachers and the research community.
Published on April 11, 2019