Category Archives: teaching

How the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting contract teachers in sub-Saharan Africa

Posted on 9 July 2020 by GEM Report

By Peter Wallet, Teacher Task Force and Pierre Varly, Consultant The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on education systems. At its height, 194 countries had implemented country-wide school closures, affecting 63 million primary and secondary teachers. Sub-Saharan Africa … Continue reading →

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All teachers should be prepared to teach all students

Posted on 8 July 2020 by GEM Report

Tomorrow, the GEM Report, the Teachers Task Force at UNESCO and Education International are co-hosting an event on teachers and teaching for inclusion. Inclusion cannot be realized unless teachers are agents of change, with values, knowledge and attitudes that permit … Continue reading →

Posted in Inclusion, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged 2020 GEM Report, Inclusion, teach, teachers, teaching | 4 Comments

Non-state actors are influencing the teaching profession: What are the implications?

Posted on 4 June 2020 by GEM Report

By Amita Chudgar, Michigan State University “When the schools reopen, I am going to hug my child’s teacher and thank her…” a friend said to me on the phone just three days into a Covid-19-imposed lockdown. Now several weeks into … Continue reading →

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Collecting essential education data during the Covid-19 crisis

Posted on 14 May 2020 by GEM Report

By Silvia Montoya, Director, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), and Gustavo Arcia, Economist and UIS Consultant Statistical institutes in low- and middle-income countries face significant pressures to collect education data under quarantine. This pressure reflects the need to mitigate the many … Continue reading →

Posted in data, Equality, Equity, Inclusion, Learning, teaching | Tagged covid19 | 5 Comments

Jane Bouvier: helping Roma children access their right to education

Posted on 13 May 2020 by GEM Report

Jane is one of many champions being highlighted by the GEM Report in the run up to the launch of its 2020 publication on inclusion and education: All means all, due out 23 June. In their own way, and in … Continue reading →

Posted in Early childhood care and education, Inclusion, Learning, Literacy, Teachers, teaching | Tagged 2020 GEM Report, Inclusion, inclusion champions | Leave a comment

How will Covid-19 affect the internationalization of higher education?

Posted on 21 April 2020 by GEM Report

University costs. It didn’t take long after universities closed their doors in the United States, for instance, for students to start advocating to get their money back. Twitter is awash with professors concerned about the impact that shutting universities is … Continue reading →

Posted in Health, higher education, Out-of-school children, Teachers, teaching | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, higher education, out of school, teachers, teaching, universities | 4 Comments

Charlotte, a teacher from Marseille: “We’re being asked to do a completely different job from before.”

Posted on 16 April 2020 by GEM Report

The onset of Covid-19 means that teachers like me are suddenly being asked to do completely different jobs. While we were in the classroom engaging with children before, now we’re at home and trying to engage with their parents. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, ICT, Inclusion, Out-of-school children, Teachers, teaching, technology, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, france, ICT, out of school, teachers, teaching, technology | 7 Comments

Covid-19: Where’s the discussion on distance learning training for teachers?

Posted on 1 April 2020 by GEM Report

A lot of the discussion, and rightly so, has been about the effect of school closures on students. Education, as they know it, stopped from one day to the next. But what about teachers? Just as students are new to … Continue reading →

Posted in digital literacy, Disaster preparedness, emergencies, ICT, Teachers, teaching, technology, Uncategorized | Tagged digital literacy skills, digital skills, sdg 4.c, teachers, teaching, technology, training | 6 Comments

Coronavirus: could education systems have been better prepared?

Posted on 18 March 2020 by GEM Report

The world was caught by surprise with the global pandemic emergency. But was it entirely unexpected? Pandemics have always been a likelihood. A pandemic has occurred every 10-50 years for the past centuries. In any given year, a 1% probability … Continue reading →

Posted in access, emergencies, ICT, pedagogy, Teachers, teaching, technology, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, emergencies, out of school, pedagogy, teachers, teaching, technology | 5 Comments

The latest facts and statistics on teachers

Posted on 4 October 2019 by GEM Report

To mark World Teachers’ Day, we have partnered with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030 to pull together key facts and statistics on challenges for teachers around the world. The … Continue reading →