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2025 World Teachers' Day fact sheet
World Teachers’ Day 2025 calls for recasting teaching as a collaborative profession. This fact sheet presents new global and regional data on teacher workforce growth, training and qualifications, and...
Report
Costing and financing the teaching profession: A strategic investment in education
This paper has been developed to inform discussions at the World Summit on Teachers (2025). It examines the challenges and opportunities involved in sustainably costing and financing the teaching...
Policy brief
Promoting and protecting teacher agency in the age of artificial intelligence
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform the educational landscape, it is critical to emphasize the irreplaceability of teachers and the role of human connection in classrooms. AI...
Policy brief
Understanding the needs of Ukrainian Teacher Training Institutions
UNESCO has launched a component on Teacher Professional Development (TPD which aims to support Teacher Training Institutions (TTIs) in Ukraine in different areas of action. These include developing...
Article
Twenty-First-Century Teacher Competencies and Trends in Teacher Training
This article examines the evolving role of teachers amid rapid technological and social changes. It highlights key 21st-century skills identified and promoted by the OECD, including learning skills...
Article
Teacher Professional Development in Emergency Contexts: A small sample exploratory analysis for five East African Countries
This paper examines Teacher Professional Development (TPD) in conflict zones and refugee settlements in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Uganda through qualitative and quantitative methods...
Report
Identifying the essential ingredients to literacy and numeracy improvement: Teacher professional development and coaching, student textbooks, and structured teachers’ guides
Using literacy and numeracy outcome measures for grades 1 and 2, this study evaluated the benefits of the following ingredients: (1) teacher PD and teacher instructional support and coaching; (2)...
Policy brief
Policy Brief: Leveraging MOOCs for Teacher Development in Low-Income Countries and Disadvantaged Regions
This policy brief looks at open digital distance learning and the potential of massive open online courses (MOOCs) to deliver and support teacher development in low-income countries and disadvantaged...
Report
Digital Learning: Reforming Teacher Education to Promote Access, Equity and Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa
The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the present and future impact of digital learning on teacher education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The focus of the report is student-teachers and...
Manual / Handbook / Guidelines
Resource guide for teacher professional development reforms
Successful design and implementation of a teacher professional development (TPD) program require more than getting the technical details of an intervention right. What is required is to understand the...
Report
Teachers and teaching in Sierra Leone: Teacher quality management study
This study analyzes the scope and content of the teaching profession in Sierra Leone, describing its main challenges and providing recommendations to better align teacher training with education needs...
Report
Teachers in Lebanon: Understanding the quality of teachers’ instructional practices and performance
This study presents the findings of the Research for Results initiative, which aimed to carry out a comprehensive review of education service delivery in Lebanon and recommend effective policy...