Category Archives: Teachers
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
Posted in accountability, Teachers, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, target 4.c, teachers, teaching
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Governments need to ensure rules are followed in education
By Manos Antoninis, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report, UNESCO No matter your job, you need standards to ensure that you are working to meet your objectives. Unfortunately, where education and schools are concerned, these standards sometimes do not … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, private schools, privatisation, sdg, sdgs, Teachers, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, private schools, SDG4, SDGs
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New GEM Report says ‘Don’t just blame the teacher when the system is at fault’
The 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report was released today at global events in Maputo, Mozambique, Brasilia, Brazil and in London, UK. It stresses that accountability is indispensable in achieving SDG 4. The Report highlights the responsibility of governments to … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Conflict, Developed countries, Developing countries, Equality, Inclusion, monitoring, privatisation, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Teachers, Testing, Training, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, education, governance, private schools, regulations, school choice, target 4.c, teachers, Testing
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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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Learning to realize education’s promise – a look at the 2018 WDR
For the first time in forty years, the World Bank’s World Development Report (WDR), released on Tuesday, focuses exclusively on education. We are pleased to see its core messages resonating so well with our past reports, especially the 2013/4 EFA … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Africa, Basic education, Learning, Literacy, Quality of education, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged education, learning, Quality of education, world bank
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Why we should increase peace-building capacities of teachers and youth
By UNESCO-IICBA (International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa) The propaganda and money used to lure young people into violent extremist groups such as Al-Shabaab in East Africa, Boko Haram in Nigeria and M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic … Continue reading
Posted in peace, Sustainable development, Teachers, Training, Uncategorized
Tagged peace, sustainable development, Target 4.a, target 4.c, teachers
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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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