Tag Archives: teachers

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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Mekdes: a COVID-19 learning hero for deaf children in Ethiopia

Posted on 27 January 2021 by GEM Report

This blog is part of a series of blogs telling the stories of COVID-19 learning heroes, whose stories were celebrated during International Education Day. Right after the first COVID-19 case was reported in Ethiopia in March 2020, the government ordered … Continue reading →

Posted in disability, Inclusion, Learning, pedagogy, Teachers, teaching | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, covid19learningheroes, disability, teachers | 1 Comment

There is wide disparity in teachers’ working hours

Posted on 7 January 2021 by GEM Report

Read in Spanish Well before COVID-19 started blurring the boundaries between work and home life for teachers, with new hybrid ways of teaching putting extra pressures, the Education 2030 Framework for Action had recognized teachers’ right to decent working conditions. … Continue reading →

Posted in Quality of education, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged covid, covid-19, Target 4.a, teachers | 3 Comments

Now more than ever we need to talk about inclusion in schools

Posted on 2 November 2020 by GEM Report

English / Español No teacher should have to pay with their life for carrying out their job. The horrifically violent circumstances surrounding the death of Samuel Paty, in a suburb of Paris on October 16 have traumatised France. As French … 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 →

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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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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 →