Foreword
Chapter 1. The Canary Islands and their School System
-About the Canary Islands
-The Canary Islands school system
Chapter 2. How Canary Islands students performed in PISA
-Scores and rankings
-Proficiency levels
-Differences between boys and girls
-Impact of socio-economic background on performance
-Differences between private and public schools
-Performance of immigrant students and special programmes
-Summary of PISA findings in this chapter
Chapter 3. Education system management and resources
-System management
--Governance arrangements
--The Education Ministry (Consejería de Educacíon, Universidades y Sostenibilidad)
-System resources
--Funding arrangements
--Investment and distribution of resources
--Levels of spending on education
--Trends in spending
--Patterns of spending on education
--Teacher salaries
-Recommendations
Chapter 4. Students and learning
-Stakeholder views on students and learning
-Student interest, motivation and behaviour
-The role of parents and families
-Students with special needs or struggling to master the curriculum
-Effectiveness of learning in regular and out-of-school lessons
-Repetition
-Curriculum
-Assessment
-The school day
-Summer holidays and summer schools
-Gender differences
-Pre-compulsory/early childhood education
-Recommendations
Chapter 5. Teachers and teaching
-Introduction
-Teachers’ terms and conditions
--Teacher recruitment
--The teaching career
--Teacher pay and rewards
--OECD team views
-Teacher education and training
--Initial teacher training
--Structure of the programmes
--Teaching practice during initial teacher training
--Teaching for diversity, teaching for all
--Other issues
--OECD team views
-Continuing professional development
--OECD team views
-Recommendations
Chapter 6. Schools, principals and inspectors
-Schools and their communities
-School accountability
-School autonomy
-School leadership: the role of the school principal
-School councils
-Private schools
-The role of the Inspectorate
-OECD team views
--School accountability
--School autonomy
--The role of the school principal
--The role of the School Council
--Private schools
--The role of the Inspectorate
-Recommendations in this chapter
Chapter 7. Findings, recommendations and the way forward
-Findings and recommendations
--Recommendations in Chapter 3
--Recommendations in Chapter 4
--Recommendations in Chapter 5
--Recommendations in Chapter 6
--The way forward