2.3.7 World Bank

The World Bank’s online Systems Approach for Better Results in Education (SABER) contains a teacher component, SABER-Teachers (http://saber.worldbank.org/ index.cfm?indx=8&pd=1&sub=0 [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] ), which documents and analyses teacher policies in public schools of education systems in fifty middle and low-income countries and territories. SABER-Teachers collects, organizes and analyses information to classify levels (latent to advanced) at which education systems reach policy goals and publishes a framework paper on teacher policies, country and regional analytical reports on eight policy goals:

• Setting clear expectations for teachers
• Attracting the best people into teaching
• Preparing teachers with useful training and experience
• Matching teachers’ skills with students’ needs
• Leading teachers – with strong principals
• Monitoring teaching and learning
• Supporting teachers to improve instruction
• Motivating teachers to perform.

The information and analytical reports can be used by policy and decision-makers to determine how their systems and comparable national systems meet policy objectives as a means to develop or revise teacher policies. Supporting laws from selected countries in the national languages are also available for consultation through the SABER website links.