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Teacher booster videos
A series of learning videos for teachers and other actors in lifelong learning designed to boost their capacity to face the challenges of remote learning and raise awareness of the importance of key competences for all learners.It is an Open Education Resource produced under the European Training Foundation’s (ETF) Creating New Learning (CNL) initiative in close partnership with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.
Reset earth teaching toolkits
This toolkit provides teachers with ideas, activities, games and discussions to engage students on the issues of the ozone layer. It includes comprehensive lesson plans for the age ranges of 7-12 and 13-18 and a simulation-style game, all accessible through the education portal of the Apollo's Edition of the Reset Earth campaign.
Coordinated action to transform education. What's in it for teacher representatives?
This briefs presents what teacher representatives gain through coordinated action. The involvement of teacher representative bodies in broader policy dialogue takes place through multi-stakeholder coordination mechanisms, including local education groups (or the equivalent). Here, they can bring the attention of decision makers and other partners to issues and practices for ensuring coherence in the implementation of education policy, including investments needed in teacher preparation, professional development, raising teaching standards and improving teacher well-being.
Welcoming diversity in the learning environment: teachers' handbook for inclusive education
This teachers' handbook is intended to serve as a practical resource to help teachers and teacher educators to gain understanding of the multiple issues of inclusion in their day-to-day work and acquire competencies that facilitate inclusive pedagogy. The handbook is comprised of nine modules – each of which presents the conceptual discussion of key topics related to inclusion and diversity and features some promising case studies, instruments and approaches. It also provides a framework for ensuring learning continuity in the wake of crises and emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and deals with a range of topics aimed at building the capacities of teachers and teacher educators for recovery and resilience in education systems in the COVID-19 context.
How to design an electronic lesson in 24 hours
Learning design for smart learning.
Defines the general landscape of instructional design in smart education.
Understand the five steps of lesson planning in Smart Learning.
Explains the requirements for designing a session in smart learning.
Design a smart learning session using Google Classroom.
How to become a remote teacher in 24 hours
Recognize e-learning technology.
Identify the main components of e-learning.
Identify tools for managing the educational process in e-learning.
Uses the tools of the educational process: Moodle Cloud.
Social and emotional learning for schools
This is a dual certifying course that combines social and emotional learning (SEL) for classrooms and SEL for teachers. The objective of the certification is to enhance personal well-being and build the professional capacity of teachers for SEL.
Online Learning Design for Educators Specialization
Specialization offering three courses for educators seeking to improve and expand their repertoire of online teaching skills related to the design, development and delivery of effective and engaging online courses and lessons for school age and adult learners. It includes three courses: "Online education: The foundations of online teaching", "Create video, audio and infographics for online learning", "Online teaching: Using Zoom to connect with learners". It is possible to audit the courses for free.
Transformative pedagogy: a teachers’ guide for peace and resilience building in North Africa
This guide is designed to build the capacity of teachers so that they are informed and empowered in why and how to educate for peace-building. It offers an analysis of conflict, examines the role of ethics, expands on the elements of transformative pedagogy. It also provides practical tools to support learners’ active participation in shaping the world around them and assess learners’ understanding of peacebuilding concepts and skills, all while engaging the community.
Addressing conspiracy theories: what teachers need to know
This document intends to support educators limit the dissemination of conspiracy theories by responding to them when they are shared among learners or within the wider school community.
Cyberbullying on social media: an analysis of teachers’ unheard voices and coping strategies in Nepal
Teachers can be potential victims of cyberbullying, particularly targeted by their students at their workplaces.
This article explores teachers' individual coping strategies of sharing, ignoring and enhancing self-efficacy to handle technology strongly and confidently, and it concludes with the implications of collaborative coordination necessary for the development of strong policies and strict cyber laws for ensuring teachers’ cybersecurity in similar contexts.
Guidelines for teachers and educators on tackling disinformation and promoting digital literacy through education and training
These guidelines offer concrete, hands-on guidance for teachers and educators, primarily in primary and secondary education, to promote digital literacy and tackle disinformation.
They offer clear explanations of technical concepts, class-exercises for fact-checking, ways to encourgage "good" online habits and ways to assess students regarding their copetencie snt he field of digital literacy.
Putting PIRLS to use in classrooms across the globe. Evidence-based contributions for teaching reading comprehension in a multilingual context
This book aims to bridge the gap between science and practice and help teachers transform the latest scientific insights regarding reading comprehension into didactic guidelines to use in everyday practice for all students. It consists of two parts: Part I, Reading Comprehension: From Research to Practical Teaching Guidelines, comprises three chapters and discusses the teaching of reading comprehension in general. In Part II, Teaching Reading Comprehension in a Multilingual Classroom, the focus is on multilingual students.
How to help students develop reading comprehension skills
This Teacher Snippet XL looks at five key principles for teaching reading comprehension as defined in Putting PIRLS to Use in Classrooms Across the Globe, the first volume of the Research for Educators Series and is illustrated with a text from IEA's PIRLS (Progress in International Reading and Literacy Study) 2016.
IEA English resource pack for educators
This resource pack is based on IEA’s Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and uses the PIRLS materials to support the best practices for teaching reading comprehension in a classroom. It accompanies the How to Help Students Develop Reading Comprehension Skills Teacher Snippet XL and book Putting PIRLS to Use in Classrooms Across the Globe, which is part of the IEA Research for Educators series.
It contains reading passages with corresponding questions and the related scoring guide to address students’ needs in reading comprehension processes. The scoring guide provides correct answers for multiple choice questions (MC) and points to the evidence that needs to be considered in deciding about correctness of the responses to the constructed response questions (CR) with some useful examples included. The international averages displayed for each question illustrate how challenging the questions were overall for students in PIRLS 2016.
When using the passage as an evaluation, the results should be used in a formative way for helping teachers identify and focus on the processes that students are having difficulties with.
Transformative pedagogy for learning to live together in Southern Africa. A practical guide
This guide is designed to build the capacity of teachers and education planners so that they are informed and empowered in why and how to educate for living together and epace building . It offers an analysis of conflict, examines the role of ethics, expands on the elements of transformative pedagogy and provides practical tools to promote learners’ active participation in shaping the world around them and assess their understanding of citizenship and peacebuilding concepts.
Transformative pedagogy empowers both teachers and learners. It encourages learners to be reflective and critical thinkers capable of contributing meaningfully as members of local and global communities. It also redefines the role of teachers. Teachers become facilitators with the disposition, knowledge, skills and commitment to support students in developing their full potential as peacebuilders. This guide can serve in universities, teacher training colleges and schools.