ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines what is meant by the ‘teacher gap’, which is threefold: the disparity between what we know about the importance of teachers, and how we treat them; the difference between the number of teachers we need, and the number we have; the difference between the quality of teachers we currently have, and the quality of teachers we want. The chapter introduces the book’s message that teaching needs to be a career worth having and that reform is required for this to be achieved.
