Tag Archives: teaching

Female science and mathematics teachers: Better than they think?

Posted on 3 May 2021 by GEM Report

By Dirk Hastedt (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement), Justine Sass (UNESCO) and Matthias Eck (UNESCO) 🔊 Listen to this blog More urgently than ever before, more girls and women are needed in science, technology, engineering and mathematics … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Gender, ICT, STEM, Teachers | Tagged #Target 4.5, girls' education, science, STEM, target 4.7, teaching | 1 Comment

Why the drive to inclusion depends on improving our understanding of the lives and work of teaching assistants

Posted on 21 April 2021 by GEM Report

🔊 Listen to this blog By Rob Webster, Centre for Inclusive Education, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK In many schools and classrooms across the globe, the drive towards the inclusion of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) in mainstream … Continue reading →

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Latin America: Countries should prioritise training teachers in the language of the community in which they teach

Posted on 1 March 2021 by GEM Report

By: Silvina Corbetta, Argentinian researcher, coordinator and co-author of the case study “Los otros étnicos y la dinámica de inclusión-exclusión educativa en América Latina”, prepared for the 2020 GEM Report Latin America and the Caribbean- Inclusion and education: All means … Continue reading →

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Breaking the glass ceiling in teacher recruitment

Posted on 8 October 2020 by GEM Report

By Nicole Bella and Matthias Eck Worldwide, many countries lack sufficient numbers of teachers. Those teachers working are often not qualified and trained to ensure quality education and learning. But, while having enough highly qualified teachers is a key issue, … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Teachers, teaching | Tagged Gender, target 4.c, teachers, teaching | 1 Comment

Teachers need training on inclusion

Posted on 5 October 2020 by GEM Report

English / Español By Anna Cristina D’Addio and Daniel April, GEM Report team Many factors go into the design of a truly inclusive education system. Some determine the way in which education systems are put in place, such as laws … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →