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  • 2025

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Schools Series - Ethiopia Teacher Manual

This manual equips teachers with practical knowledge and tools to support the mental health and psychosocial well-being of learners, particularly in conflict-affected regions like Afar, Amhara, and Tigray. It includes a case management toolkit and aims to create a safe, healing classroom environment. The manual raises awareness of MHPSS, provides techniques for identifying and managing mental health issues, and promotes emotional safety and resilience. By integrating MHPSS into teaching, it helps teachers foster a supportive and inclusive educational environment, enhancing professional development through trauma-informed pedagogy. 

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Experimento 3+ módulo: Medio Ambiente - Guía de trabajo para docentes de preescolar

Esta guía, elaborada en el marco de un proyecto con la Oficina de la UNESCO en México para desarrollar la enseñanza de la ciencia a nivel preescolar, propone actividades y experiencias científicas para realizar en el aula. Incluye medidas de seguridad que se deben observar y demás instrucciones necesarias. Este módulo se centra en la temática del medio ambiente (ciclo del agua, contaminación, etc.…).  

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  • 2023

Teaching to prevent atrocity crimes: a guide for teachers in Africa

This is UNESCO's first resource with a regional focus on teaching to prevent atrocity crimes. It was developed with the United Nations and in partnership with the UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA). The guide was informed by exchanges with African stakeholders and advisors and tested through a piloting exercise with African teachers and students. It provides principles for teachers to consider in facilitating learning and constructive discussions with their students.

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  • 2016

A teacher's guide on the prevention of violent extremism

This is UNESCO’s first teacher’s guide on the prevention of violent extremism through education. It was developed in order to ensure its relevance in different geographical and socio-cultural contexts. Therefore, it can be used as it is or further contextualized, adapted and translated in order to respond to the specific needs of learners. 

The guide seeks to:
- provides practical advice on when and how to discuss the issue of
violent extremism and radicalization with learners;
- help teachers create a classroom climate that is inclusive and conducive
to respectful dialogue, open discussion and critical thinking.

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  • 2017

Textbooks for sustainable development: a guide to embedding

This guidebook aims to support textbook authors and publishing houses to produce a new generation of textbooks that integrate education for sustainable development. By doing so, it aspires to make learning relevant and effective. It also contributes to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Textbook authors and educators are encouraged to use this guidebook as a source of ideas, tools and methods that can help to enrich content and pedagogy and complement their own individual and institutional strategies. The guidebook offers concrete guidance for textbook authors on how to reorient the existing curriculum content towards peace, sustainable development and global citizenship.

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