Category Archives: Teachers

TALIS: Showing how teachers acquire confidence and improve children’s learning.

Posted on 23 June 2014 by GEM Report

This week, a new round of TALIS survey results will be published by OECD. This blog looks at some of the findings from the last TALIS survey, which shows the sorts of practices which increase teachers’ feeling of confidence in … Continue reading →

Posted in Quality of education, Teachers, Uncategorized | Tagged target 4.c | 6 Comments

Seeking a common global aspiration for education

Posted on 16 May 2014 by Manos Antoninis

The Global Education for All Meeting, which took place this week in Muscat, Oman, was the last major international gathering to help shape a post-2015 agenda before next year’s World Education Conference in Incheon, Republic of Korea. The meeting aimed … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Finance, Post-2015 development framework, Teachers | 1 Comment

Indonesia: Learning to meet the needs of disabled children

Posted on 6 May 2014 by Manos Antoninis

Siti is the 10th and final participating teacher in the #TeacherTuesday campaign. She works in a school supported by Save the Children in Indonesia, teaching a class with many children with disabilities. This week’s focus on disability and education echoes … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Health, Human rights, Learning, Marginalization, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Quality of education, Teachers | Tagged #TeacherTuesday Blog Series | 4 Comments

Global Action Week: When disability is a barrier to education

Posted on 5 May 2014 by Manos Antoninis

“Equal Right Equal Opportunity: Education and Disability” is the theme of this year’s Global Action Week. The campaign aims to raise awareness of how a disability can seriously harm a child’s chances of going to school and learning. As we … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developing countries, Equality, Equity, Health, Learning, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Quality of education, Teachers, Training, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, disability | 4 Comments

Australia: Rich countries are also failing to ensure that the marginalized can learn

Posted on 15 April 2014 by Manos Antoninis

Russell is the eighth teacher to participate in our Teacher Tuesday campaign. He works in a school in Inverell, a New South Wales country town in Australia. Of the 680 students in his school, 125 are Aboriginal. Four of the 30 … Continue reading →

Posted in Developed countries, Early childhood care and education, Ethnicity, Language, Rural areas, Secondary school, Teachers | 1 Comment

Bangladesh: Innovative solutions to improve education for the disadvantaged

Posted on 8 April 2014 by Manos Antoninis

Mosammat is the seventh participating teacher in our Teacher Tuesday campaign. Bangladesh is hit by flooding every monsoon season making access to school hard for those living in the affected areas. Mosammat describes what it is like teaching on a … Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Disaster preparedness, Poverty, Teachers, technology, Training | 13 Comments

Student-focused learning helps the Netherlands achieve

Posted on 1 April 2014 by Manos Antoninis

Cees, a teacher in Amsterdam, is the sixth participant in our 10-week #TeacherTuesday campaign. He describes some of the teaching and assessment methods that help children in the Netherlands achieve some of the world’s highest scores in international surveys. How … Continue reading →

Posted in Learning, Quality of education, Secondary school, Teachers, Testing, Training | 5 Comments

Poverty holds back learning in Kenya

Posted on 26 March 2014 by GEM Report

Margaret, a teacher in Nairobi, is the fifth participant in our 10-week #TeacherTuesday campaign. She works in Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa, helping children find an escape route from poverty through their education. Margaret was born in … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Basic education, Literacy, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Primary school, Quality of education, Teachers | 5 Comments

Syrian refugees make the best of temporary schools

Posted on 18 March 2014 by Manos Antoninis

Mohammed, a teacher from Syria who lives in Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, is the fourth participant in our 10-week #TeacherTuesday campaign. His daily struggle to help Syrian refugee children underlines the need to support teachers in difficult situations – … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Arab States, Basic education, Conflict, Disaster preparedness, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Governance, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Refugees and displaced people, Teachers | Tagged #Target 4.5, #TeacherTuesday Blog Series, conflict, development, education, Education for All, finance, governance, humanitarian aid, learning, poverty, primary education, refugees | 6 Comments

PHOTO BLOG: The state of girls’ education around the world

Posted on 14 March 2014 by GEM Report

To tie-in with the release of the Gender Summary of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2013/4 published by UNESCO to mark International Women’s Day, this photo blog tells the story of the state of education for girls and young … Continue reading →