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Punishing teachers is often counter-productive
One of the key messages of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report 2017/8, Accountability in education: Meeting our commitments is that punishing teachers can often be counter-productive. Teachers have the primary responsibility for educating students. But in many countries, they … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, target 4.c, teachers, teaching
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Let teachers teach: The dangers of expanding teacher workloads
Today, on World Teachers’ Day, we look at one of the findings in the 2017/8 GEM Report on accountability in education due out later this month. The Report celebrates the undeniably critical role that teachers play in any education system: … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Teachers, teaching, tertiary education, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, target 4.c, teacher, teachers, teaching
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Promoting literacy in a multilingual society
By Paula Korsnakova, Senior Research and Liaison Advisor, IEA Reflecting on the results of providing instruction in a language other than the one spoken at home Did you know that apparently 66% of children in the world are raised to … Continue reading
Posted in Language, pedagogy, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged language, learning, target 4.6, teaching
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The challenge of Target 4.7 in fragile and low-resource contexts
By Margaret Sinclair (Technical Adviser, Protect Education in Insecurity and Conflict Programme, Education Above All Foundation) and Jean Bernard (Senior Partner, Spectacle Learning Media) Given current challenges of conflict, insecurity and environmental collapse, we must put maximum effort into Sustainable … Continue reading
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Tagged books, school, sdg 4.7, target 4.7, teaching, textbooks
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Closing the circle: Teaching gender issues to teachers
Last week the French supreme council for gender equality published a report on the imperative to keep mainstreaming gender equality issues in teacher preparation programs and to make knowledge and skills in these areas required for teacher graduation. “Making teachers … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, pedagogy, Teachers, teaching, textbooks, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, Gender, target 4.c, teacher, teaching
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Multilingual teaching does more than just improve learning
The most widely read GEM Report publication is our paper last year on language policy in education. Why? Because there are about 6,500 languages spoken in the world today, and, as we showed in that study, a staggering 40% of … Continue reading
We must stamp out stereotypical teaching tools
Gender bias in textbooks is one of the best camouflaged and hardest to budge rocks in the road to gender equality in education. Through stereotypical and unbalanced depictions of men and women in stories and illustrations, textbooks undermine values and … Continue reading
