chile s schools should recruit highly qualified graduates offer continuing professional development and ensure career advancement as well as attractive working conditions and salaries schleicher these issues have included the important role of school leadership the initial preparation and professional development of teachers and opportunities for improvement through teacher evaluation and assessment the oecd review of chilean education and other oecd work on the quality of teacher education and teaching practice in chile carried out since then have studied teacher evaluation teacher careers and more recently the effective use of school resources in chile both the review and recent oecd work have found that chile has taken significant action and made significant progress in reforming the education system oecd santiago et al the oecd recognises that chile s teacher workforce as in other countries is highly differentiated this means that teachers have different roles and different pay according to where they teach and the demands placed on them