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Why the drive to inclusion depends on improving our understanding of the lives and work of teaching assistants
🔊 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
Posted in disability, Inclusion, Teachers, teaching
Tagged disability, Inclusion, target 4.c, teacher aides, teachers, teaching, teaching assistants
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Breaking the glass ceiling in teacher recruitment
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
Teachers need training on inclusion
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
Posted in Inclusion, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged Inclusion, target 4.c, teachers, teaching
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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
More testing?
By Manos Antoninis and William C. Smith This blog looks at the contrasting findings in the 2017/8 GEM Report on Accountability and a recent study by Berbauer, Hanushek, and Woessmann over whether more testing is good for education or not. … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, teaching, Testing, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, target 4.c, teaching, Testing
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‘A good education can change anyone. A good teacher can change anything’
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
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Countries need to prepare teachers better to teach about our impact on the environment
It’s World Environment Day. Another opportunity for global campaigners to rally around the need for stronger commitment to stop the human impact on the planet before it is too late. Another day for policy makers to be challenged as to … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized
Tagged Environment, SDGs, sustainable development, target 4.7, target 4.c
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From leadership bright spots to transformed school systems
By Kieran Cooke, Senior Development Consultant, Education Development Trust In the middle of the Kibera slum in Nairobi, amongst the rubbish dumps of an impoverished community, there is a school, which, despite the collapsing roofs and dusty floors, is achieving … Continue reading
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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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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