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Article
Solving the teacher shortage: How to attract and retain excellent educators
This paper reviews an extensive body of research on teacher recruitment and retention, and identifies five major factors that influence teachers’ decisions to enter, stay in, or leave the teaching...
Meeting document
Transforming our understanding of refugee teachers and teaching in contexts of forced displacement
This is the outcome document of the meeting convened by UNHCR, INEE, and Education International at the Transforming Education Pre-Summit in Paris titled: “Transforming our understanding of refugee...
Policy brief
Refugee teachers: A quick guide
This guide provides basic planning and programming recommendations for managing refugee teachers, and is geared particularly towards camp settings where teachers are being recruited directly from...
Report
Left behind: Refugee education in crisis
This report tells the stories of some of the world’s 6.4 million refugee children and adolescents under UNHCR’s mandate who are of primary and secondary school-going age, between 5 and 17. In addition...
Article
Teacher professional identity: How to develop and support it in times of change
Promoting and supporting the development of strong professional identities in teachers is relevant to teachers, policy makers and the research community. The benefits of examining Teacher Professional...
Report
Teacher management in refugee settings: UNRWA schools in Jordan
In crisis and displacement situations, the role of teachers is particularly significant; they are the ‘key to successful inclusion’ and are sometimes the only educational resource available to...
Meeting document
Crisis-Sensitive Teacher Policy and Planning in Emergency and Displacement Situations - webinar concept note
This webinar on Crisis-Sensitive Planning in Emergency and Displacement Situations will build on the Guidance Note on Developing a Crisis-Sensitive Teacher Policy, jointly developed by UNESCO, UNHCR...
Report
Change agents - Emerging evidence on instructional leadership at the middle tier
A major concern for policymakers around the world is how to design an entire system of education that provides high quality teaching and learning outcomes. This paper aims to make a significant...
Meeting document
Guidance note on developing a crisis-sensitive teacher policy
Norwegian Teacher Initiative: Strengthening Multi-Partner Cooperation to Support Teacher Policy and Improve Learning One of the aims of the Norwegian Teacher Initiative is to support education...
Report
Teachers and teacher policy in primary and secondary education
This paper was created to give an overview of relevant areas regarding the world-wide shortage of teachers called the teacher gap, provide an insight in its causes and consequences and investigate the...