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Successful teachers, successful students: Recruiting and supporting society's most crucial profession
This paper describes the vision and key principles guiding the World Bank’s support to countries on teachers.
Article
Training teachers on the job: what works and how to measure it
This paper reviews the existing body of evidence on what kinds of in-service teacher training interventions are most effective, and highlights the knowledge gaps. It reveals the dearth of detail on...
Article
Teacher professional development around the world: the gap between evidence and practice
Many teachers in low- and middle-income countries lack the skills to teach effectively, and professional development (PD) programs are the principal tool that governments use to upgrade those skills...
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The working conditions of teachers in low- and middle-income countries
Student learning levels in low- and middle-income countries are low, and analysis of the proximate causes often points to failures among teachers, whether a lack of content knowledge, high absenteeism...
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How to recruit teachers for hard-to-staff schools: A systematic review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries
This research article presents systematic review of government-implemented policies to increase the quantity or quality of teachers in hard-to-staff schools in low- or middle-income countries. The...
Report
Teachers of Refugees: A Review of the Literature
Numerous studies show that the teacher is the most important in-school factor affecting the quality of education, particularly in refugee contexts, where the teacher is sometimes the only resource...
Report
Une radioscopie de la formation initiale des enseignants - Primaire et secondaire
Inscrite dans le cadre du programme APPRENDRE développé par l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie avec l’appui financier de l’Agence Française de Développement, la présente étude comparative sur...
Manual / Handbook / Guidelines
The COVID-19 Learning Pathway
The COVID-19 Learning Pathway is an online course that aims to enable humanitarians, including local responders, to be best equipped to respond to the global pandemic COVID-19 (Coronavirus). It...
Blog
School, Interrupted: 4 options for distance education to continue teaching during COVID-19
The blog explores four distance learning options of radio, TV, mobile phones and online learning to highlight the potential and challenges of each. It draws from examples where these have been used...
Manual / Handbook / Guidelines
Save the Children's COVID-19 Program Framework and Guidance
This framework represents Save the Children's planning assumptions and priority areas for implementation over four phases of programming: Preparedness, Initial Response, Large-Scale Response, and...
Report
From Blaming to Reflecting: An Evaluation of the Quality Education Project (QEP) in Zimbabwe and Zambia
The Quality Education Project targets teachers in pre-service and in-service teacher training and helps them analysing their own class-room behaviour. The QEP is learner-centred. It is about problem...