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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...
Report
Panama. The state of public teacher policies
This report analyses the state of public teacher policies in Panama. It was prepared with the support of the Inter-American Dialogue and Unidos por la Educación [United for Education], in the Republic...
Article
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...
Article
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
How can teaching be professionalized?
In recent decades, several educational systems in Latin America have undertaken reforms to professionalize teaching. In this current study, the Latin American Coalition for Teaching Excellence, in...
Policy brief
Teacher training and support in Africa during the Covid-19 pandemic. Policy brief
This policy brief presents available evidence on the policy and practice responses in teacher training and support during the periods of school closures and re-openings in 40 GPE partner countries in...
Article
Refugee teachers: the challenges of managing professional expectations with personal experiences
This case study documents the relationship between personal and professional experiences of a group of Syrian refugee teachers working in Lebanon. The study shows that refugee educators welcomed the...
Article
When the personal becomes the professional: Exploring the lived experiences of Syrian refugee educators
Teachers play a central role in supporting students whose lives have been disrupted by crisis, yet the teachers providing education to refugee students often are refugees themselves. This article...
Brochure / Flyer
2020 World Teachers' Day fact sheet
Teachers are the cornerstone on which we build inclusive, equitable, quality education. The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially compromised teachers’ capacity to maintain education quality due to...
Report
Future of Teaching Profession
Drawing on the evidence on what it means to be a teacher in the 21st century this study begins with an analysis of the current situation in differing countries of the world. It examines the policies...