Abstract

The quality of a teacher plays one of the most important roles in the achievement of an education system. Teachertraining is a multi-dimensional process which comprises the selection of teacher candidates, pre-service training,appointment, in-service training and teaching practices. Therefore, this study focuses on teacher training processes inSingapore, Shanghai-China, Hong Kong-China and Turkey and aims to discover the reasons for success in Program forInternational Student Assessment (PISA) by relating it with teacher training processes. Singapore, Shanghai-China,Hong Kong-China were chosen to study because their educational systems were ranked among the high-performingeducational systems in 2016. This study was a qualitative research and document analysis method was used to collectdata about the relevant countries' teacher training processes. The result of the study suggested some practicalconsiderations for teacher training programs in low-performing education systems about the selection of teachercandidates, pre-service training, appointment, in-service training and teaching practices.

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