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This publication by the UNICEF Office of Innovation explores the transformative potential of mobile phones in education. It highlights how mobile devices, particularly messaging platforms, have become essential tools for learning continuity and accessibility. The guide emphasizes the role of teachers in advocating mobile learning, outlines pedagogical strategies for message-based teaching, and addresses ethical considerations, planning, and content creation. By leveraging mobile connectivity, educators can foster inclusive, flexible, and impactful learning experiences across diverse contexts. 

This resource part of UNICEF’s Superstar Teachers Toolbox, empowers educators to integrate technology meaningfully into their teaching. Designed for both novice and tech-savvy teachers, it offers practical strategies for planning and implementing digital pedagogy. The guide emphasizes learner-centered approaches, strategic use of digital tools, and pedagogical priorities. Structured into three chapters -planning, implementation, and additional resources- it supports educators in enhancing student engagement, creativity, and achievement through thoughtful digital transformation in education. 

Ce guide, initié par la Fondation Tara Océan en collaboration avec plusieurs agences et fondations, vise à familiariser les acteurs éducatifs avec les Objectifs de Développement Durable (ODD). Destiné aux enseignants, conseillers pédagogiques, formateurs, et autres, il propose des ressources pratiques pour intégrer les ODD dans l'enseignement. Structuré par questions, il facilite une lecture adaptée aux besoins et inclut des définitions, des méthodes pour aborder les ODD en classe, et des ressources utilisables dans les activités éducatives. 

Le guide propose une analyse réflexive des pratiques professionnelles pour le développement et l'amélioration de l'enseignement. Il contient six fiches-action, allant de l'analyse des pratiques et représentations sociales, au dialogue entre experience et savoir théoriques. Ces fiches peuvent être utilisés comme outil de formation initiale par des formateurs ou en autonomie par des enseignants en travail collaboratif ou en co-formation, ou par un enseignant seul en autoformation qui souhaite travailler sa pratique réflexive pour améliorer la qualité de son enseignement-apprentissage. 

Ce guide destiné aux enseignants et directeurs d’établissement vise à faciliter la création de communautés d’apprentissage professionnelles (CAP) dans les écoles. Il résulte de recherches collectives et est conçu pour une utilisation autonome. Le guide se divise en trois chapitres : le premier clarifie le concept de CAP, le deuxième propose des outils pour leur mise en place et suivi, et le troisième explore l'usage des TIC pour leur développement. Il encourage la collaboration et le partage d’expertise pour améliorer les pratiques pédagogiques et le développement professionnel continu des enseignants.

THIS TEACHER TRAINING MANUAL on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) is developed by Finn Church Aid (FCA) and Teachers Without Borders (TWB) Finland. The manual contains guidance and practical steps for integrating elements of psychosocial support in the teaching and learning process. It is designed to be facilitated by trainers, local educators and community workers to the benefit of teachers, children and youth.

The training manual consists of six (6) training modules that can be used flexibly. The first three (3) modules are meant for supporting the teachers' wellbeing, and the last three (3) modules are meant for the classroom support for learners' wellbeing. The modules include the following sub-topics:

1. Stress and relaxation
2. Compassion
3. How to identify and support learners with MHPSS concerns as a teacher
4. Recreational activities for MHPSS
5. Social and emotional learning
6. Life skills

The content design allows you to pick individual modules or sessions and adapt the training content according to the context’s needs. We hope you find it useful!

This Teacher Training Manual on Inclusive Education supports teachers and other education personnel’s continuous professional development in inclusive, quality education especially in diverse low resource contexts and is adaptable for use anywhere in the world. The Inclusive Education Manual directly contributes to realization of several targets of the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 “ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education for all”.

The manual was developed by Finn Church Aid (FCA) and Teachers Without Borders (TWB) Network Finland. The content has been collected and built on the numerous good materials and practices used and co-developed by FCA staff and TWB education experts in different countries and contexts.

The training manual consists of three (3) training modules that can be used flexibly:

1. Education, Teacher and School Community,
2. Inclusive Education, and
3. Positive Classroom and Learning Environment for All Learners.

The content design allows the trainer or facilitator to pick individual modules or sessions and adapt the training content according to the context and target group’s needs.

We hope you find it useful!

This teacher training manual on Distance Education & Digital Pedagogy supports teachers and other education personnel’s continuous professional development in pedagogically high-quality distance education and remote learning especially in diverse, low resource contexts and is adaptable for use anywhere in the world.

The manual has been developed by Finn Church Aid (FCA) and Teachers Without Borders (TWB) Finland. The development of the training materials began already in 2020 as a response to the school lock-down situations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, when teachers and learners quickly had to adapt to remote education modalities. Even though the pandemic has subsided, the need for quality distance education prevails. Ensuring the continuity of learning for all learners is critical in all contexts, even and especially during crisis situations.

The training manual consists of eight (8) training modules that can be used flexibly:

1. Distance Education,
2. Distance Education Modalities,
3. Pedagogy of Digital and Distance Education,
4. Psychosocial and Emotional Wellbeing,
5. Learner-Centred Methods in Distance Education,
6. Home Support – Parents and Caregivers’ Role and Collaboration,
7. Inclusive Education, and
8. Assessment and Evaluation.

The content design allows the trainer or facilitator to pick individual modules or sessions and adapt the training content according to the context and target group’s needs.

We hope you find it useful!

Este recurso sobre ciudadanía digital ofrece definiciones clave y aborda problemáticas como la alfabetización digital, la convivencia en línea, y la protección y seguridad. Se exploran temas como la autorregulación, la privacidad, el discurso de odio, el cyberbullying y el grooming. Además, se fomenta la reflexión sobre noticias falsas, identidad digital y estereotipos, así como la creatividad y participación en el entorno digital. También se discuten los derechos digitales y la legislación relacionada con el uso seguro de Internet para niños y adolescentes en Ecuador.

Esta guía ofrece a los docentes herramientas y estrategias para comprender y enseñar el concepto abstracto de ciudadanía en el aula. Proporciona recursos pedagógicos, actividades prácticas y ejemplos concretos para ayudar a los estudiantes a internalizar valores cívicos y democráticos. Además, incluye planes de lecciones y evaluaciones que facilitan para el docente la integración del tema en su práctica, promoviendo una educación integral y participativa. Con esta guía, los docentes pueden fomentar una comprensión profunda y crítica de la ciudadanía entre sus alumnos.

Esta guía, desarrollada para el contexto educativo chileno, destaca la importancia del vínculo entre la escuela y la familia. Este recurso ofrece estrategias para fortalecer la colaboración entre ambos, reconociendo que una relación sólida y cooperativa mejora significativamente el desarrollo académico y emocional de los estudiantes. La participación activa de las familias en el proceso educativo fomenta un ambiente de apoyo y confianza, esencial para el éxito escolar. Además, promueve una comunicación efectiva y continua, asegurando que las necesidades y expectativas de los estudiantes sean comprendidas y atendidas de manera integral.

Esta guía, creada en colaboración entre el Ministerio de Educación de Colombia y la Fundación Siemens Stiftung, con apoyo de la OEA, busca integrar el enfoque STEAM con perspectiva de género en la práctica docente. Centrada en los sistemas educativos de Colombia y Chile, promueve la equidad de género desde la primera infancia, fomentando la participación de niñas y niños en ciencia y tecnología. A través de experiencias educativas y políticas, se pretende reducir estereotipos de género y promover una educación inclusiva y de calidad.

Right To Play uses a variety of approaches to play to support children’s learning, development, and well-being, including sports, music, theatre, art, and play-based learning.

This document focuses on the play-based learning methodology and approach, and how it can be used for learning and development goals related to Right To Play’s core programmatic areas: early childhood care and education, primary education, gender equality and girls’ well-being, and psycho-social support.

What would it take to ensure that all young people have access to learning that enables them to feel a sense of belonging and prepares them to help build more peaceful and equitable futures? This is a question we have found educators in contexts of conflict and migration ask of themselves each day. And each day, in classrooms around the world, educators are acting in response to this question.

We learn from educators how they create space for dissent, for dialogue, for trust, for new identities, for future-building, and how they envision and build newly imagined and welcoming communities.

Pedagogies of belonging, featured in this book and in its title, emerge from these ways of thinking and acting by educators. We see across educators that what they teach, how they teach, and why they teach in the ways they do come together to enable all young people to feel a sense of belonging and prepare them to help build more peaceful and equitable futures.

This book is about educators and for educators. It is about the practices educators have developed to create welcoming communities in settings of conflict and migration. Each chapter is a “microportrait” of one educator who we have come to know by spending time in their classroom and school.

We focus on the why and the how of practices educators use. We show, through text and art, how educators learn about their students’ experiences, needs, and desires. We describe how educators develop practices to meet these learning and belonging goals. And we recognize how educators address struggles that necessarily arise in this work. We hope the practices give us each ideas to try out in our own classrooms, schools, and other educational sites.

Each microportrait is grounded in research about educator practices. Authors of the microportraits came to know the educators through research projects that included interviews, observations, and sometimes participatory methods. Each project was at least a few months and at times spanned many years. The microportraits include links to articles that can support deeper learning about the contexts and practices of the educators.

This book is a collective project, and we welcome your participation. The intention of this book is that it lives and grows to include more microportraits over time and more patterns of practices that may emerge. Please be in touch with suggestions, to share your experiences with the practices of these educators, or to contribute a microportrait to the collection.

Massey University and Open Polytechnic present a free webinar with ICDE Secretary General, Torunn Gjelsvik. The Secretary General will discuss international trends in distance and open education related to access, equity and scalability. Dr Mark Nichols from Open Polytechnic, the President of ICDE, will also join the conversation, together with Professor Giselle Byrnes, Provost of Massey University. There will be an opportunity for questions at the end of the session 

Global School Leadership Webinar featuring Kathy Bartlett, Suchetha Bhat, Olanrewaju Oniyitan, Kathleen Chew, and V. Jayalakshmi on the topic of Equity in Education: The Role of Women Leaders.

Drawing from the 2024 Evidence Review on gender in school leadership (available here), the two-part webinar series “Role of Gender in School Leadership" aims to offer deep insights into effective strategies for fostering gender equity in educational leadership. Watch this webinar as practitioners, researchers and policymakers from the global education space unpack the potential of improving female representation in school leadership to enhance educational outcomes and foster inclusive learning environments. In this webinar Aashti Zaidi Hai talks to Eline Versluys, Sister Zeph, Franco Mosso, and Veronica Cabezas.

Drawing from the 2024 Evidence Review on gender in school leadership (available here), the two-part webinar series “Role of Gender in School Leadership" aims to offer deep insights into effective strategies for fostering gender equity in educational leadership. Watch this webinar with professionals, researchers, and policymakers to deep dive into the underrepresentation of female school leaders and explore actionable strategies for overcoming systemic barriers hindering gender equity in school leadership roles, and discuss ways to dismantle them. In this webinar Sonakshi Sharma talks with Vongai Nyahunzvi, Gala Díaz Langou y Michael Boakye-Yiadom.

Una serie de webinars para descubrir los retos y oportunidades en las realidades de los equipos directivos en América. En este primer episodio, descubrimos la realidad de Chile con respecto a las oportunidades y necesidades de los equipos directivos en su trayectoria profesional.

This pioneering curriculum presents a comprehensive competency framework of media and information literacy (MIL) and offers educators and learners structured pedagogical suggestions. It features various detailed modules covering the range of competencies needed to navigate today's communications ecosystem. This resource links media and information literacy to emerging issues, such as artificial intelligence, digital citizenship, education, education for sustainable development, cultural literacy, and the exponential rise in misinformation and disinformation. With effective use of this media and information literacy curriculum, everyone can become media and information literate as well as peer-educators of media and information literacy. 

This UNESCO model MIL Curriculum and Competency Framework for Educators and Learners is intended to provide education systems in developed and developing countries with a framework to construct a programme enabling educators and learners to be media and information literate. UNESCO also envisions that educators will review the framework and take up the challenge of participating in the collective process of shaping and enriching the curriculum as a living document. The first edition and this second edition of the MIL curriculum have benefited from several series of collaborative and intercultural expert debates and recommendations. The curriculum focuses on required core competencies and skills which can be seamlessly integrated into the existing education system without putting too much of a strain on overloaded education curricula. 

The target groups for the curriculum are essentially educators and learners. Educators and learners are understood in the broadest sense of the terms to include teachers at the secondary and primarily tertiary levels, persons involved in training or learning on all forms in NGOs, CSO, community centers, the media, libraries, online or offline. Given that the curriculum was developed with adaptation in mind, it can be used by various stakeholders interested in the field of MIL. Users may need to adapt the content to make it more relevant or accessible to specific target groups. The curriculum is also relevant to government officials and ministries, and other social and international development organizations.