Tag Archives: teachers

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

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

Educating for the social, the emotional and the sustainable

Posted on 6 November 2019 by GEM Report

By Andy Smart, Margaret Sinclair, Aaron Benavot, Jean Bernard, Colette Chabbott, S. Garnett Russell and James Williams Earlier this year, the UN Secretary-General reported that “the shift in development pathways to generate the transformation required to meet the Sustainable Development … Continue reading →

Posted in curriculum, sdgs, Sustainable development, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged afghanistan, curriculum, lebanon, SDG 4, target 4.7, teachers, teaching, textbooks | 2 Comments

What teacher shortage? It’s not just the scale but the nature of the challenge

Posted on 31 October 2019 by GEM Report

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 →

Posted in Learning, Teachers, Uncategorized | Tagged target 4.c, teacher, teachers | Leave a comment

John is a Cuban teacher who moved to Canada in 1997 and faced difficulty finding work

Posted on 21 February 2019 by GEM Report

This content comes from our newly released interactive youth version of the 2019 GEM Report. The reluctance of some countries to recognize teacher qualifications across borders is one of the most important challenges for migrant teachers. ‘Becoming a teacher in … Continue reading →

Posted in immigrant, immigration, migrant, migration, Teachers, Uncategorized | Tagged 2019 gem report, migration, teachers | 1 Comment

‘A good education can change anyone. A good teacher can change anything’

Posted on 5 October 2018 by GEM Report

This cliché emblazoned on chipped mugs in school staff rooms all over the world is impossible to refute. We all know teachers have the power to transform both individual lives, and the fortunes of nations. And, as the theme of … Continue reading →

Posted in pedagogy, Quality of education, refugees, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged target 4.c, teachers, teaching | 11 Comments

Teachers who are running countries

Posted on 13 April 2018 by klinkinsunescoorg

Mokgweetsi Masisi, a former teacher and education minister, has just been sworn in as Botswana’s fifth President. On appointment, Masisi said that young people, who make up 60% of the population, were the country’s future leaders and the country would … Continue reading →