In my point of view, in order to empower teacher, the government or stakeholder has to think about incentive and professional skill including morality. I think incentive is the fundamental need for underpaid job like teacher. Incentive here is not about only money, but also mentally supportive.Teachers are going to work hard and contribute as much as they can if they get more attention and motivation from the management line. Meanwhile, professional skill plays very vital role for teacher in order to enhance their teaching capacity and transfer knowledge to students. Incentive and professional skill will draw teachers to be active educators, and they are more likely to find the way for self-development itself.

I agree totally with Socheat's comment above. I think too much of emphasis is being place on material and physical need need of teachers and the teaching profession without a corresponding consideration of morality and corruption. The popular saying that you can take a horse to the river but you can not make it drink says more about the education system from my own point of view and experience in rural communities in Nigeria. The trouble is really not the absence of teachers or empowerment per se; but rather the collapse of the social responsibility system where education administrators have turn politicians and contractors and are constantly seeking ways to enrich themselves from school supplies and teacher training programmes while the teacher in the classroom is completely ignored and sometimes urged to look the other way. A teacher cannot really be productive in such an environment. More need to be done to create a responsible working environment where the teacher's motivation in terms of the items identify here is paramount but a lot more need to be done to motivate and support teachers to see themselves as human beings; and their personal goals and dreams guaranteed and supported by the government.

Teachers need a greater investment in training & development to allow incoming teachers to have what Malcomb Gladwell defines as 10,000 hours of experience, but we also need partners, advocates of the classroom. As we have it now, teachers are ridiculously disdained and blamed for obstacles outside of our control. We will not accept that poverty and family values impact the classroom, but rather, we just point our fingers and blame the lousy teachers.

Considero que todo es importante pero lo principal para los profesores son las buenas polìticas educativas para que podamos trabajar con mejor calidad en el proceso educativo por supuesto eso va de la mano de la inversiòn que se debe hacer en Educaciòn