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Category Archives: Teachers
How the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting contract teachers in sub-Saharan Africa
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
Posted in Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, sub-Saharan Africa, teacher, teaching
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All teachers should be prepared to teach all students
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
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Non-state actors are influencing the teaching profession: What are the implications?
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
Posted in Non-state actors, Teachers, teaching, Training
Tagged 2021 GEM Report, Non-state actors
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Jane Bouvier: helping Roma children access their right to education
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
Digital capacities and distance education in times of coronavirus. Insights from Latin America
By Nicolas Buchbinder, GEM Report Fellow Due to the coronavirus, schools have closed their doors in almost the entirety of Latin America. This is a situation with no precedent in the region. Countries have implemented different policies to continue the … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, ICT, STEM, Teachers, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, digital divide, digital literacy skills, ICT, technology
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How will Covid-19 affect the internationalization of higher education?
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
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Charlotte, a teacher from Marseille: “We’re being asked to do a completely different job from before.”
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
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Covid-19: Where’s the discussion on distance learning training for teachers?
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
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Coronavirus: could education systems have been better prepared?
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
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What teacher shortage? It’s not just the scale but the nature of the challenge
By Colin Bangay, Senior Education Adviser, DFID Sierra Leone Most would agree that good teachers make all the difference. As recent research attests, ‘the most effective interventions to improve student learning rely on teachers’. The imperative to bring the magnitude of … Continue reading
