Tag: teachers
Striking a balance between the individual and the community through an extended understanding of marginalisation
The story of Joseph and his volunteer colleagues is not unusual. Until 2022, 25% of primary schools in Zambia were classed as ‘community schools,’ established by local communities, often in remote locations, to ensure that their children could attend school.
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Being a teacher with disabilities: Experiences from across five countries
Debates on inclusive education tend to overlook the need for diversity in the education workforce, particularly in relation to employment of teachers with disabilities in mainstream schools. The Education Commission’s 2019 Transforming the Education Workforce report highlighted, ‘inequities in the workforce itself are rarely recognized or addressed in the design,…
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Spotlight on Ethiopia’s Secondary Education Challenges
The education system in Ethiopia has been grappling with a substantial crisis. Continuing civil war and political instability have disrupted the educational trajectories of millions of Ethiopian children.
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Who matters in Measuring What Matters – Notes on a creative session at the UKFIET 2023 conference
We wanted to take the subject of learning assessment, a serious and complex topic at the heart of many of the conferences discussions, and address it with a sense of fun and unstructured creativity.
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Collecting disability data in schools in Sierra Leone
For disability-inclusive education to work, accurate information about schoolchildren with disabilities is required at all levels of the educational system.
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Assessment: the forgotten component in large scale teacher professional development?
Much attention has been given to the assessment of learning at school and university. Reflecting this increased focus on this area, Teacher Professional Development (TPD) programmes include considerable support to teachers to improve how they use assessment , but how much thought is given to the design and evaluation of…
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Deficit-oriented teacher beliefs inhibit poor students’ learning and wellbeing
Low learning outcomes, especially among poor and marginalised students, are a pervasive problem in many low- and middle-income countries. Negative teacher beliefs and expectations may contribute to low learning outcomes among the poor, especially if they are reflected in classroom practices and interactions.
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Holistic learning processes and outcomes – interview with convenors of UKFIET conference theme
Interview with theme convenors of one of six 2023 UKFIET conference themes, ‘Holistic learning processes and outcomes’: Jaya Gajparia, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, London South Bank University, and Anita Reilly, education consultant.
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Bringing teachers’ voices into the discussion about teaching and learning in Rwanda
An important part of any research project should be engaging research participants so that both researchers and research participants have the chance to learn and reflect together on the findings. Engaging research participants in the findings they have contributed to can also help to identify rich evidence-based solutions. However, this…
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World Teachers’ Day 2022
The theme for World Teachers' Day 2022 is “The transformation of education begins with teachers”. This is a day to celebrate the transformative and critical role that teachers play in growing learners’ potential. We need to ensure that they have the tools they need and are recognised for their key…
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How Senior Women Teachers support #everygirlinschool
Female role models and mentors help tackle gendered roles which limit girls’ access to secondary education in Uganda and Zambia, according to research.
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Teachers in 2040: Far fewer but much more effective and substantially better rewarded
This article, based on a recent conference presentation, is contributed by Mike Douse, who explores how education’s forthcoming fundamental transformation will result in far fewer teachers worldwide, with each of them facilitating learning much more effectively, and all deserving and hopefully receiving substantially greater remuneration and intangible rewards than in…
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