„In a number of countries […] novice teachers have a reduced teaching load as part of their induction programmes. This provides them with more time to prepare their lessons, engage in professional learning or observe colleagues while they develop their teaching skills and improve their effectiveness.“
Luka Boeskens, MSC, u. a., Not enough hours in the Day: Policies that shape teachers‘ use of time (2021), S. 53.

„The OECD‘s Initial Teacher Preparation Study found that mentors frequently face a heavy workload and find it difficult to make sufficient time to help their peers, which can reduce the effectiveness of their support, as well as the attractiveness of mentoring roles.“
Luka Boeskens, MSC, u. a., Not enough hours in the Day: Policies that shape teachers‘ use of time (2021), S. 54.

„Supporting teachers during the early stages of their career is crucial not only to enhance the quality of teaching but also to reduce exit from the profession.“
EU-Kommission (Hrsg.), Teachers in Europe. Careers, Development and Well-being (2021), S. 17.

„Empirical evidence shows that support and assistance for beginning teachers in the form of induction and mentoring have a positive influence on outcomes such as commitment and retention of teachers, classroom teaching practices and student achievement.“
OECD, Positive, High‑achieving Students (2021), S. 46.

„Es gibt überzeugende Belege, dass die Qualität der Lehrkräfte der wichtigste bestimmende Faktor innerhalb der Schule für die Leistungen der Schüler ist, daher müssen konzertierte Anstrengungen unternommen werden, die Fähigsten für den Lehrerberuf zu gewinnen und eine qualitativ hochwertige Ausbildung zu bieten.
OECD (Hrsg.), Bildung auf einen Blick 2020. OECD-Indikatoren (2020), S. 536.

„Research has indicated that novice teachers in their first three years are more likely to leave the teaching profession, as they often encounter challenges in the classroom and have limited professional experience to address those challenges. Therefore, induction and mentoring opportunities are essential strategies for supporting new teachers to help them overcome difficulties in the transition period and preventing early dropouts from the teaching force.“
OECD (Hrsg.), Benchmarking the Performance of China's Education System (2020), S. 50.

„Teachers who participate in induction activities tend to report higher self-efficacy and job satisfaction, which are two important factors that matter to the quality of teaching practices.“
OECD (Hrsg.), Benchmarking the Performance of China's Education System (2020), S. 51.

„A teaching practicum, giving teachers the chance to apply their learning in a classroom under the supervision of an experienced teacher, was included in an average of 90 % of teachers’ initial training across OECD countries.“
OECD (Hrsg.), Education in the Digital Age (2020), S. 187.

„Only 56 % of teachers across the OECD received training in the use of ICT for teaching as part of their formal education or training, and only 43 % of teachers felt well or very well prepared for this element when they completed their initial education or training.“
OECD (Hrsg.), TALIS 2018 Results. Volume II (2020), S. 37.
In Österreich waren es nur 40 % bzw. 20 %. (Quelle: OECD (Hrsg.), TALIS 2018 Results. Volume I (2019), Table I.4.13 und Table I.4.20.)

„The teaching profession is highly valued in Finnish society, as teachers are considered to be experts with a special mission in the community. Teachers receive high-quality training and are responsible for constantly maintaining their professional skills. These statements imply trust-based assessment, where quality assurance does not rely on control.“
OECD (Hrsg.), TALIS 2018 Results. Volume II (2020), S. 126.

„Research shows that support and assistance for novice teachers has a positive influence on the commitment from and the retention of teachers, classroom teaching practices and student achievement.“
EU-Kommission (Hrsg.), Education and Training Monitor 2019 (2019), S. 21.

„Induction can be used to ease the transition from teacher education to professional life, by introducing new teachers to school practices, colleagues and fellow staff members, and the main challenges that they will face in their job. Induction can help retaining novice teachers and thus reducing the number of those leaving the profession after a few years (attrition rate).“
EU-Kommission (Hrsg.), Education and Training Monitor 2019 (2019), S. 27.

„Studies suggest that mentoring has a positive impact on teaching skills, and as mentors often have schoolspecific information that new teachers may lack, they can also help in teacher retention.“
EU-Kommission (Hrsg.), Education and Training Monitor 2019 (2019), S. 30.

„When asked about their sense of preparedness for using digital technologies for teaching, 39.4 % of teachers in the EU felt well or very well prepared for the use of digital technologies for teaching. In Austria and Finland, only 1 in 5 teachers confirmed feeling well prepared for the use of ICT in teaching. […] In the group of teachers trained after 2013, only Austria (33.1 %) have less than half of the respondents reporting that they did not feel well prepared for using digital technologies for teaching after initial teacher education.“
EU-Kommission (Hrsg.), Education and Training Monitor 2019 (2019), S. 88.

„In the group of newly educated teachers (those who received their initial teacher education after 2013), use of digital technologies for teaching was included in initial teacher education for at least 70 % of teachers in all EU Member States, except Austria (68.3 %).“
EU-Kommission (Hrsg.), Education and Training Monitor 2019 (2019), S. 88.

„Proportionately more private school teachers have obtained degrees from high-ranking universities and earned good grades; more also have a post-graduate qualification, and more are specialists in maths and sciences, typically the subjects where teachers are in short supply. Private school heads are also increasingly successful at attracting experienced teachers from state schools; this matters because teachers’ skills develop considerably over the first few years in the classroom.“
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Francis Green u. a., Engines of Privilege (2019), S. 100.

„During the last 20 years the idea of an 'induction phase' where beginning teachers receive a dedicated support has been growingly recognised in OECD countries.“
OECD (Hrsg.), A Flying Start (2019), S. 102.

„Each additional year of teaching experience is related to higher student achievement, especially during a teacher’s first five years in the profession. Results from TALIS 2018 show that, early in their careers, teachers often feel less confident in their ability to teach, in their classroom management skills and in their capacity to use a wide range of effective instruction approaches.“
OECD (Hrsg.), „PISA 2018 Results. Where All Students Can Succeed“ (2019), S. 109

„A mandatory teaching practicum was identified in PISA as a common feature of initial teacher preparation in all high-performing and equitable education systems except Macao (China). […] A number of countries have recently reformed their initial teacher education systems to make the teaching practicum a mandatory element – such as Estonia.“
OECD (Hrsg.), „TALIS 2018 Results. Volume I“ (2019), S. 129f

„Most importantly, the working conditions, support and early professional development that novice teachers experience in their first years are important elements in helping them to confirm their career choice and remain in the teaching profession.“
OECD (Hrsg.), „TALIS 2018 Results. Volume I“ (2019), S. 137

„The positive impact of induction activities for teachers on teaching quality and student learning has been shown in various studies. In particular, empirical evidence shows that students taught by teachers who receive comprehensive induction support demonstrate learning gains larger than those experienced by students taught by teachers who do not receive such support.“
OECD (Hrsg.), „TALIS 2018 Results. Volume I“ (2019), S. 140

„For the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2018, a considerable share of teachers at lower secondary level reported feeling underprepared for managing classrooms and student behaviour, ranging from more than one in four teachers in Lithuania to more than three in four in Austria and France.“
OECD (Hrsg.), Working and Learning Together (2019), S. 274.

„Successful teachers have deep subject-matter knowledge, an understanding of child development and psychology, an awareness of the principles of the learning sciences, and a set of practiced routines for operationalising these in the context of a classroom.“
OECD (Hrsg.), Working and Learning Together (2019), S. 323.

„Prospective teachers could spend four days per week in the classroom with a highly effective experienced teacher, progressively taking more responsibility for leading the classroom. The fifth week day could be spent learning with the cohort of residents at a local teacher education institution.“
OECD (Hrsg.), Working and Learning Together (2019), S. 324.

„Becoming a primary school teacher is highly competitive in Finland. Selection for primary school teacher education happens in two steps: first, candidates are selected based on scores in matriculation exam and out-of-school accomplishment records. Next, candidates take a written exam in pedagogy, their social and communication skills are observed in clinical settings similar to school situations, and top candidates are interviewed and asked to explain their motivation to become teachers. About 1 in every 12 applicants is accepted in teacher education programs to become a primary school teacher.“
World Bank Group (Hrsg.), Successful Teachers, Successful Students (2019), S. 21.

„Around two-thirds of the 32 countries included in the analysis use selective entry criteria for teacher education in addition to diploma requirements, for prospective teachers for both primary or in lower secondary education. Most commonly, candidates are selected based on their secondary school results, but in some cases an interview or a competitive examination is used.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „Education Indicators in Focus 58“ (Jänner 2018), S. 2

„Singapore uses a manpower planning approach so that every teacher trainee who is recruited and selected for training is paid by the Ministry of Education during their initial teacher education and then has a guaranteed first job. The Singapore career structure has three career tracks – the master teacher track, school leader track, and specialist track – so that if teachers enjoy teaching they can advance professionally and financially within teaching, but if they don’t enjoy teaching they can find other paths within education.“
Asia Society (Hrsg.), New Challenges and opportunities (2018), S. 29.

„The 2017 European Commission Communication on school development and excellent teaching stresses the importance of providing specific support to teachers during the early stage of their career.“

EU-Kommission (Hrsg.), „Teaching Careers in Europe“ (2018), S. 51

Der österreichische Nationalrat hat das international vorbildliche Unterrichtspraktikum durch eine „Induktionsphase“ ersetzt.

„Teaching is a highly appreciated profession, and education programmes are among the most difficult programmes to access in Finnish universities.“
Dr. Oskari Harjunen u. a., „Best Education Money Can Buy? Capitalization of School Quality in Finland“. In: „CESifo Economic Studies“ (2018), S. 151

„The quality of teachers depends mainly on setting high standards for entering teacher-preparation programmes and for the quality of initial preparation, and on the attention given to the quality of teachers’ preparation in selection and recruitment processes.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „Effective Teacher Policies“ (2018), S. 23

„In some high-performing countries and economies, such as Finland, Hong Kong (China), Korea, Macao (China) and Chinese Taipei [Anm.: „Chinese Taipei“ = Taiwan], candidates must pass a competitive examination to be admitted into pre-service teacher education.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „Effective Teacher Policies“ (2018), S. 46

„All high-performing countries recognise that beginning teachers need intensive support to apply their knowledge to teaching, and to develop professional networks with more experienced mentors.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „Effective Teacher Policies“ (2018), S. 48

„Teaching graduates in Singapore must successfully complete a probation period in which their competence for the job is evaluated. Singapore also specifically recruits candidates from the top third of the secondary school graduating class by offering them attractive conditions for study and work, such as a competitive monthly stipend during the training period.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „Effective Teacher Policies“ (2018), S. 48

„Over the last two decades most OECD countries have developed different programmes to support beginning teachers. These have been accompanied by a growing research evaluating the impact and effectiveness of these initiatives. […] Teacher Education in Europe advocates that an induction phase of at least one year should be both a right and an obligation for early career teachers, and should involve systematic guidance and personnel, social and professional support.“
Dr. Alejandro Paniagua u. a., „Early Career Teachers: Pioneers Triggering Innovation or Compliant Professionals?“ (2018), S. 3

„How teachers are paid, and what proportion of resources are allocated to reducing class sizes, providing better training for teachers and providing more ancillary staff or better facilities, is crucial.“
Varkey Foundation (Hrsg.), „Global Teacher Status Index 2018“ (2018), S. 8

„Teachers in Top Performing Systems benefit from coherent systems of recruitment, development, and support that make their jobs easier and promote effective teaching. These systems begin by attracting top candidates into teaching, filtering for quality, and providing an excellent induction into the profession.“

World Bank Group (Hrsg.), „Growing Smarter“ (2018), S. 139

„The two factors with the strongest evidence in improving student outcomes are content knowledge and the quality of pedagogical practices. Teachers with strong knowledge and understanding of their subject have greater impact on student learning.“

World Bank Group (Hrsg.), „Growing Smarter“ (2018), S. 153

„Educational systems perform best when they have teachers who are respected, prepared, selected on merit, and supported in their work. East Asia and Pacific systems provide many lessons for developing such high-performing systems. A foundational aspect is attracting high-quality candidates into the profession by offering not only competitive compensation but also an appealing professional environment founded on respect and support.“

World Bank Group (Hrsg.), „Growing Smarter“ (2018), S. 159

„The leading jurisdictions are selecting their teachers from among the more capable of their high school graduates. They want to make sure that they are not only strong in academics, but that they can connect with young people and have a passion for teaching.“

Marc S. Tucker, Präsident des National Center on Education and the Economy, Vorwort zu Darling-Hammond u. a., „Empowered Educators“ (2017)

„Finland has placed particular emphasis on effective recruitment strategies and strong teacher preparation.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond u. a., „Empowered Educators“ (2017), S. 5

„Competitive salaries helped make the profession attractive to potential candidates, and high standards were set for entry into and graduation from initial teacher education programs. Together these helped raise the status of teaching, creating a virtuous cycle for ongoing recruitment.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond u. a., „Empowered Educators“ (2017), S. 5f

Ontario: „Induction programs are particularly well developed, with all new teachers in Ontario working with trained mentors as part of the 2-year New Teacher Induction Program. Mentors and mentees receive shared release time for collaborative planning, classroom observation, or assessment of student work designed to enhance teachers‘ practice, efficacy, and support their commitment to continuous professional learning.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond u. a., „Empowered Educators“ (2017), S. 31

„High-performing systems view teaching as a profession, one that is attractive to enter and remain in and one that offers rewards – intrinsic and extrinsic – to those who excel. In doing so, the systems help ensure that well-qualified individuals go into teaching, thus enhancing the respect for the profession throughout society.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond u. a., „Empowered Educators“ (2017), S. 182

„The education sector competes with other sectors for the best-qualified employees. Teachers’ salaries may strongly influence graduates’ choice to join the teaching profession, and teachers’ choice to stay in their job. Attractive teachers’ salaries hence help sustain the supply of highly-skilled teachers in the face of an ageing teacher workforce and/or a growing school-age population, and thus ensure that those with the greatest competencies for teaching choose their career path accordingly.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „Government at a Glance 2017“ (2017), S. 112

„Among young Finns, surveys of high school graduates show that teaching is consistently the most admired profession. […] Annually about 20,000 students apply for about 4,000 slots in teacher education institutions.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond u. a., „Empowered Educators“ (2017), S. 55

„In Finland, Hong-Kong (China), Macao (China) and Chinese Taipei, students who wish to enter teacher-training programmes must pass a competitive entry examination.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „What do we know about teachers’ selection and professional development in high-performing countries?“ (2017), S. 2

„Singapore […] tries to recruit candidates from the top third of the secondary school graduating class and offers them attractive working conditions, such as a competitive monthly stipend during the training period.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „What do we know about teachers’ selection and professional development in high-performing countries?“ (2017), S. 4

Finnland: „Die Lehrerausbildung ist sehr beliebt, und es ist schwer, die Leistungsvoraussetzungen dafür zu erfüllen. So schafften 2014 nur rund 9 % der Kandidaten die Immatrikulationsprüfung an der Helsinkier Universität für die Ausbildung zum Klassenlehrer.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Pasi Sahlberg, finland.fi am 17. Juli 2016

„Ergebnisse im mathematischen Bereich zeigen, dass das mathematisch-didaktische Wissen der Lehrkraft besonders hoch mit den Schülerleistungen korreliert.“

Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln (Hrsg.), „Bildungsmonitor 2016“ (2016), S. 19

„Hatties zentrale Botschaft ist der Hinweis, dass mit der Kompetenz der Lehrkraft letztlich alles steht und fällt.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Klaus Zierer, „Hattie für gestresste Lehrer“ (2016), S.7

„In der Lehrerfort- und Weiterbildung sind Unterrichtsbeobachtungen mit anschließenden Diskussionen und Rückmeldungen am wirksamsten, wohingegen Vorlesungen, Simulationen sowie das Erstellen von Unterrichtsmaterialien weniger hilfreich sind.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Klaus Zierer, „Hattie für gestresste Lehrer“ (2016), S.76

„Teacher education in Finland remains very competitive and is one of the most attractive educational programmes at tertiary level. For example, at the University of Helsinki only 7 % of applicants were accepted onto the primary school teacher programme in 2016.“

EU-Kommission (Hrsg.), „Education and Training Monitor 2016 – Country analysis“ (2016), S. 93

„Beginning teachers require comprehensive support in the transition to the workplace. They require intensive role modelling, mentoring and other forms of training to learn what good practice on the job involves.“

Dr. Ben Jensen u. a., „Beyond PD: Teacher Professional Learning in High-Performing Systems“ (2016), S. 29

„The most successful education systems select and retain highly qualified candidates for the teaching profession and ensure that they are constantly improving.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „PISA 2015 Results (Volume II): Policies and Practices for Successful Schools (2016), S. 230

Finnland: „Entry to the five-year teacher education programme is highly competitive, and education is rigorous, researchbased and combined with supervised teaching for at least one year in schools associated with the university.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „OECD Economic Surveys – Finland“ (2016), S. 84

„PISA finds that low performers in mathematics are more likely than students who perform at or above baseline Level 2 to attend schools that suffer from a lack of qualified teachers.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „Low-Performing Students“ (2016), S. 160

„Research evidence shows that well-designed induction programmes increase teacher retention and satisfaction and improve teaching quality.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „Netherlands 2016 – Foundations for the Future“ (2016), S. 102

„In Singapore, teachers have 20 % fewer teaching hours for the first three years of teaching and also receive mentoring support.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „Netherlands 2016 – Foundations for the Future“ (2016), S. 110

„Many comparative studies have found the subject-specific knowledge of teachers to be one of the main teacher-related determinants of improved learning outcomes.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „Teaching Excellence through Professional Learning and Policy Reform“ (2016), S. 18

„Top school systems pay a great deal of attention to how they select their staff.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „Teaching Excellence through Professional Learning and Policy Reform“ (2016), S. 12

„In Japan and Finland, for example, the average teacher has better numeracy skills than the average college graduate while in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, the Slovak Republic and Sweden, the reverse is true.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „Teaching Excellence through Professional Learning and Policy Reform“ (2016), S. 12

Shanghai: „School children, beginning in first grade, are taught by teachers who are trained and recruited by subject. Each key subject teacher is responsible for teaching that subject.“

Weltbank (Hrsg.), „How Shanghai Does It“ (2016), S. 7

„As in many East Asian countries, teachers in China and Shanghai are trained, recruited, and organized by subject starting from teachers of first grade. Each key subject teacher is responsible for teaching his or her subject specialty.“

Weltbank (Hrsg.), „How Shanghai Does It“ (2016), S. 28

Shanghai: „The induction-probation program requires teachers to spend 50 percent of their time teaching in the classroom and 50 percent receiving professional development at district teacher training centers where they receive training on ethics, pedagogy, and student activity design.“

Weltbank (Hrsg.), „How Shanghai Does It“ (2016), S. 29

„Shanghai teachers generally have a very high level of content knowledge, especially in the core subject areas of math, Chinese, and English.“

Weltbank (Hrsg.), „How Shanghai Does It“ (2016), S. 30

„Several top-performing countries, such as Finland and Korea, build high-quality teaching forces by recruiting the best high school graduates into education institutions.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „PISA in Focus“ Nr. 58, Dezember 2015, S. 2

„Was auch immer dem Wunsch nach Abbau von Spezialisierung in der Lehrerausbildung zu Grunde liegt – unterschätzte Bandbreite der Verschiedenheit, unterschätzte Komplexität der Verschiedenheit, unterschätzte Anforderungen, die die Verschiedenheit an die Fachlichkeit des Lehrers stellen oder aber die Überschätzung von Lehrern und/oder der Lehrerbildung – es ist immer ein Irrtum!“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. David-S. Di Fuccia, „Profil“ (Zeitung des dphv), November 2015, S. 24

„Large-scale studies in North Carolina, New York, and Texas found significant negative effects on student achievements for teachers who entered teaching through alternative routes, as compared to fully certified teachers with comparable experience.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond u. a., „Teaching in the Flat World“ (2015), S. 14

„In Singapore, beginning teachers receive 2 years of coaching from expert senior teachers who are trained by the National Institute of Education as mentors and are given released time to help beginners learn their craft. During the structured mentoring period, beginning teachers teach a reduced load (about two-thirds that of an experienced teacher) and attend courses in classroom management, counseling, reflective practices, and assessment offered by the National Institute of Education and the Ministry of Education.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond u. a., „Teaching in the Flat World“ (2015), S. 82

„Unlike other Nordic countries, Finland has managed to keep up the appreciation and attractiveness of the teaching profession, which is reflected in the high level of applicants for teacher education.“

Finnish Institute for Educational Reasearch (Hrsg.), „Mobility and transition of pedagogical expertise in Finland“ (2015), S. 20

Schweden: „Over time the attractiveness of the teacher profession declined and teacher education lost popularity. Declining teacher skills and an increasing share of teaching staff without adequate qualifications followed.“

Jon Kristian Pareliussen u. a., „Skills and Inclusive Growth in Sweden“ (2015), S. 19

„More flexibility on working hours outside the classroom, increasing autonomy on ways to reach learning targets, enhancing coaching and feedback and increasing influence on issues concerning pupils and workplace are all factors which have the potential to raise teacher satisfaction and the attractiveness of the profession.“

Jon Kristian Pareliussen u. a., „Skills and Inclusive Growth in Sweden“ (2015), S. 20

„Policies to attract the best resources into teaching and ensure they receive high quality education and relevant opportunities for professional development are likely to bring the greatest returns for better education.“

Europäische Kommission (Hrsg.), „The Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2013“ (2014), S. 9

„Once new teachers start their career, it is crucial to provide them with appropriate personal, social and professional support (induction) for a successful transition into the reality of working life at a school.“

EU-Kommission (Hrsg.), „Education and Training Monitor 2014“ (2014), S. 62

„The most effective teachers have deep knowledge of the subjects they teach, and when teachers’ knowledge falls below a certain level it is a significant impediment to students’ learning.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Coe u. a., „What makes great teaching?“ (2014), S. 2

„A number of studies have found a relationship between measures of a teacher’s knowledge of the content they are teaching and the gains made by their students.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Coe u. a., „What makes great teaching?“ (2014), S. 18

USA: „A growing number of states have induction support programs in place for beginning teachers-programs that education researchers have been calling for since the 1970s. Beginning teachers reporting that they have a mentor or master teacher working with them during their first year have increased from about 50 percent in 1990 to over 90 percent as of 2008.“
Dr. Mariana Haynes, „On the path to equity: Improving the effectiveness of beginning teachers“ (2014), S. 6

„The induction elements producing the strongest effects include having a mentor from the same field, scheduled collaboration with other teachers, and regular communication with one’s principal. When the number of support measures increase, attrition rates for beginning teachers decline, they perform better at various aspects of teaching, and, most significantly, their students have higher scores or greater gains on academic achievement tests. Overall, teachers receiving a more comprehensive package of these induction components achieve higher levels on all three outcomes:
teachers’ job satisfaction, commitment, and retention;
teachers’ classroom teaching practices and pedagogical methods; and
student achievement.
“Dr. Mariana Haynes, „On the path to equity: Improving the effectiveness of beginning teachers“ (2014), S. 7

„Participation in an induction programme during a teacher’s first employment is positively related not only to the later decision to help other teachers by acting as a mentor but also to more intensively undertake professional development activities.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „TALIS 2013 Results“ (2014), S. 113

„The countries that achieve the highest scores in international learning assessments such as PISA and TIMSS emphasize mentoring of all newly qualified teachers, supported by additional resources targeted to their schools.“

UNESCO (Hrsg.), „Teaching and learning – Achieving quality for all“ (2014), S. 244

„Singapore, Canada and Finland all set high standards for their teacher-preparation programs in academic universities.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Pasi Sahlberg, Washington Post vom 15. Mai 2013

„Das eigentliche Geheimnis der finnischen Schulen wird oft übersehen: eine strenge Selektion beim Lehrerstudium. Nur etwa jeder zehnte Interessent wird zugelassen.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elsbeth Stern, Die Zeit vom 21. März 2013

„There is growing evidence that teacher preparation is a powerful predictor of students’ achievement, perhaps even overcoming socioeconomic and language background factors. To engage students in learning, teachers need to be well-prepared such that they have a solid mastery of the content in the subject to be taught and a repertoire of effective pedagogical approaches.“

IEA (Hrsg.), „TIMSS and PIRLS 2011: Relationships among reading, mathematics, and science achievement at the fourth grade“ (2013), S. 114

„Extend ECS programmes (Anm.: ECS = „Early career support“) beyond the first year of teaching service to the first two or three years. Reduce the number of classroom hours for new teachers, so as to facilitate their participation in ECS programmes.“

EU-Kommission (Hrsg.), „Study on Policy Measures to improve the Attractiveness of the Teaching Profession in Europe“ (2013), Teil 1, S. 14

„High levels of student learning and achievement will be partially achieved by teacher selection policies to ensure that only the very best people become educators and educational leaders.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. David Hopkins, „Exploding the myths of school reform. CSE Seminar Papers No. 224“ (2013), S. 15f

„Studien belegen, dass fachdidaktische Beweglichkeit erst entstehen kann, wenn die Lehrer ihr Fach wirklich erschlossen haben.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bellenberg, Pressemeldung vom 26. Jänner 2012

„Die Forschungsbefunde, die uns vorliegen, zeigen eindeutig, dass die Fachlichkeit für einen erfolgreichen Unterricht ganz wichtig ist. Denn die Fachlichkeit ist Voraussetzung dafür, dass Lehrer überhaupt fachdidaktisch gute Entscheidungen treffen können.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bellenberg, Pressemeldung vom 26. Jänner 2012

„Countries with the most effective education systems, such as Finland and Singapore, tend to have the most selective teacher recruitment policies. In these cases, the teaching profession is considered and treated as a cornerstone of society, acknowledging that teachers enable a country to maximise its future human capital. Only the most talented are encouraged to apply, and there are strict entry criteria based on competence and motivation. This approach is crucial to help boost the status of the profession. Boosting status also requires good pay, good working conditions, a high degree of professional autonomy and high qualification requirements – for all teachers.“

EU-Kommission (Hrsg.), „EU High Level Group of Experts on Literacy. Final Report“ (2012), S. 44

Singapur: „Initial education provides teachers with high subject content knowledge that is the equivalent of specialist degrees. For example, mathematics teacher graduates receive the equivalent mathematics education as a student in a straight mathematics degree at other universities.“

Ben Jensen, „Learning from the best school systems in East Asia“ (2012), S. 52

„Although experts may not be able to consensually define and measure all aspects of what it takes to teach well, all agree on the importance of subject-matter knowledge.“

IEA (Hrsg.), „Policy, Practice, and Readiness to Teach Primary and Secondary Mathematics in 17 Countries“ (2012), S. 20

„Ein Lehrer muss sein Fach können, also den Stoff beherrschen, den er vermittelt. Das ist die Grundvoraussetzung. Und er muss den Stoff vermitteln können - Vermittlungswissen oder Vermittlungskompetenz haben.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walter Herzog, Der Standard vom 2. Februar 2011

„Hohe fachmathematische Kompetenzen sind unbedingt notwendig, um fachdidaktische Fähigkeiten zu erwerben.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sigrid Blömeke, Die Presse vom 31. Jänner 2011

„Teachers in Finland must be fully certified at the university level in the areas of their expertise. Teachers of math must be fully trained, university-level mathematicians. This might seem simple common sense. How can one teach what one does not understand?“

Univ.-Prof. Charles Sabel u.a., „Individualized Service Provision in the New Welfare State - Lessons from Special Education in Finland“ (2011), S. 58

„The better a teacher understands a topic in math, or a type of poetry, the more ways he can approach it; and the more ways he can approach it, the easier it is to find a way that is comprehensible to someone who finds the standard approach unhelpful.“

Univ.-Prof. Charles Sabel u.a., „Individualized Service Provision in the New Welfare State - Lessons from Special Education in Finland“ (2011), S. 58f

„Real mastery of a subject is flexibility (among other things) in applying it; and lack of mastery is manifest as rigidity – the need to do the things one can do a certain way, and an inability easily to add new things to one’s repertoire.“

Univ.-Prof. Charles Sabel u.a., „Individualized Service Provision in the New Welfare State - Lessons from Special Education in Finland“ (2011), S. 59

„In der einschlägigen Fachliteratur besteht Übereinstimmung darüber, dass eine solide Wissensbasis in der jeweiligen Unterrichtsdomäne eine zentrale Komponente der professionellen Kompetenz von Lehrkräften darstellt.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mareike Kunter u.a., „Professionelle Kompetenz von Lehrkräften“ (2011), S. 164

„COACTIV hat gezeigt, dass sowohl Fachwissen als auch fachdidaktisches Wissen im hohen Maße ausbildungsabhängig sind, wobei Lücken im Fachwissen kaum durch fachdidaktisches Wissen kompensiert werden können.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mareike Kunter u.a., „Professionelle Kompetenz von Lehrkräften“ (2011), S. 185

„Eine profunde Wissensbasis – bestehend aus fachunabhängigen und fachspezifischen Anteilen – wird als notwendig angesehen, um qualitativ hochwertige Lernumgebungen zu schaffen, in denen die Schülerinnen und Schüler zu verständnisvollen Lernprozessen angeregt werden.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mareike Kunter u.a., „Professionelle Kompetenz von Lehrkräften“ (2011), S. 199

„Ob ein Unterricht gelingt, kommt sehr stark auf das fachdidaktische Wissen der Lehrkräfte an, und das setzt solides Fachwissen voraus. Wer die Inhalte seines Unterrichtsfachs durchdrungen hat, vermittelt diese mit größerer Sicherheit, kann mit Fehlern der Schüler souveräner umgehen und auf vielfältigen Wegen intelligente Lerngelegenheiten schaffen.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Petra Stanat, Die Zeit vom 24. Juni 2010

„Für das Anregungspotenzial des Unterrichts, die konstruktive Unterstützung bei Lernschwierigkeiten und den Leistungsfortschritt der Schüler sind spezifisches fachdidaktisches Wissen und Können verantwortlich.“

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen Baumert, Der Spiegel vom 14. Juni 2010

„For beginning teachers it is essential that they have a reduction in their workload, without reducing their salaries. […] Mentors too need to be provided with sufficient time for their duties.“

EU-Kommission (Hrsg.), „Developing coherent and system-wide induction programmes for beginning teachers“ (2010), S. 22