ABSTRACT
This chapter provides with in-depth profiles of teachers from unique sociocultural contexts that can raise thoughts of patterns and connections that can help enhance teacher judgment and professional development all over the world. Research shows that teachers’ competences hold a key position to increase students’ achievements. Approaching the teacher profession as a simplistic division between excellent and non-excellent teachers in a dual sense is common not the least in media coverages about education. This tendency to simplify and divide complex phenomenon gives the impression that there is such a thing as a perfect teacher meaning that every shortcoming is a signal about teacher failure. Central in all of the teacher narratives and perhaps also as a consequence of the narrative methodology as such is an awareness that various units in education are interconnected and influence outcomes. This can also be described in terms of a relational dimension in education.
