What makes a good teacher?

Teachers are important and make a difference. The quality of teaching is a crucial factor in promoting effective learning in schools. Effective teaching requires individuals who are academically able and who care about the well-being of children and youth.

For education in school to be effective, the environment needs to be appropriate to learning, allowing the pupils space and time to interact within the learning and teaching process. It is very important to create and maintain stimulating learning environments can be achieved through effective classroom organisation.

Chilean Education

• Chile has state-run and private schools; all state schools provide free education.
• It counts with an eight-year primary and four-year secondary program, with increased emphasis on vocational instruction at the secondary level.
• Proposals are currently being considered to increase the amount of compulsory schooling from eight to ten years.
• More than 90 percent of Chilean people can read and write.

Quality & Equity: Two important terms that are in the agenda.

Quality

Policy: Competitively funded school-based projects.
Supervision: Whole school, “integral”.
School: Teamwork; reaching out to community.
Classroom: Curricular & pedagogical flexibility.

Equity

Policy: Targeting the poorest 10 percent and rural multi-grade schools.
Supervision: Focused on lowest-performing schools.
School: Inclusion of all children.
Classroom: Individualized attention to students’ needs.

Future Teachers

The future new teachers will be committed to the process of change which postulates educational reform, which are able to achieve the minimum required to develop the objectives and fundamental transverse and vertical that are specified in the curriculum at every level. Generating and higher expectations of development for each of the students in their respective levels.

A professional teacher is capable of generating new and independent ideas to give knowledge to their students to create their own methods to achieve the expected learning. They have to implement games using special technology, which is a tool that is now incorporating to education and that certainly it will be crucial for the future education.

According to the objectives of the government of Chile, the faculty of the state must have the title or license pedagogue since one of the main problem of education is that many of the teachers are not qualified and therefore have no training or knowledge that a teacher requires.