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This document outlines a Professional Teaching Standards Framework for teachers. The framework focuses on clarifying and specifying teaching standards aimed at enhancing equitable and quality...

This article examines inequitable teacher distribution in Tanzania and its implications on the efficiency in public education expenditure. It also presents lessons learned for other countries.

The development of pertinent and effective in-service teacher training remains a policy challenge for many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ecuador stands out as a country in the region...

This note provides guidance on how to establish a numerical indicator to measure teaching practices through classroom observation tools, and how to benchmark this indicator to track changes in...

This note presents common barriers that teachers and pedagogical leaders face at each teacher professional development (TPD) stage and offers operationally feasible, tech-based mitigation strategies...

This document is part of a series of follow-up reports on teacher policies by the Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas (PREAL). These reports seek to foster informed debates on...

The report proposes a practical framework to uncover the “black box” of effective teacher policy and discusses the factors that enable their scalability and sustainability. The framework distills...

The High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession was established by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres following the Transforming Education Summit held in 2022. It was tasked with...

This policy brief advocates a shift from traditional professional development to lifelong learning, aligning with UNESCO's 2021 social contract for education. Emphasizing collaboration, it addresses...

This document presents the highlights of The Global Report on Teachers. Addressing teacher shortages, which is the first edition of a biennial report that will fill a gap within existing data and...

This document compiles the full list of references cited in the highlights of the Global Report on Teachers. Addressing teacher shortages, available here and launched on 8th November 2023. The report...

Presentation by Carlos Vargas Tames, Chief of Section for Teacher Development at UNESCO and Head of the TTF Secretariat, at the online event Teacher education in emergencies to support attraction and...