All high-performing education systemsfulfil these eight teacher policy goals to a certain extentin order to ensure that every classroom has a motivated,supported and competent teacher. These goals were identifiedthrough a review of research studies on teacher policies, aswell as an analysis of policies of top-performing andrapidly improving education systems. Three criteria wereused to identify the teacher policy goals, which had to be:(1) linked to student performance through empiricalevidence; (2) a priority for resource allocation; and (3)actionable, meaning they identify actions that governmentscan take to improve the education policy. The eight teacherpolicy goals exclude other objectives that countries mightwish to pursue to increase the effectiveness of theirteachers, but on which there is too little empiricalevidence at present to allow for specific policy recommendations.