COVID-19 Responses

The COVID-19 crisis is one of the biggest disruptions of education the world has faced in recent history, affecting nearly 1.5 billion students and 63 million primary and secondary school teachers. This number is predicted to rise.

The International community is mobilising to provide resources to education systems from the national to the global level. Below is a non-exhaustive list of information, recommendations and resources put together by the Teacher Task Force members.

We will continue to update it with relevant information.

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Call for Action on Teachers

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27.03.2020

Teacher Task Force calls to support 63 million teachers touched by the COVID-19 crisis

Around 63 million primary and secondary teachers around the world are affected by school closures in 165 countries due to the...

Members' resources

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19.03.2020

Responses to COVID-19 education disruption

At the time of writing this article, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic affecting the world has led to nationwide school...

#TeachersVoices

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08.08.2022

#TeachersTransform climate education: How the Climate Action Project became a global movement

A portable solar suitcase with a battery and solar panel, eco bricks, electricity from seawater, and 3D printed coral reefs
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18.08.2021

Voices from India and Kenya - Teachers fighting education disadvantage

Education disruptions due to the COVID-19 crisis have shone the light on existing disparities separating learners between and
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02.09.2020

3 inspiring stories of how teachers kept teaching through the crisis

Education has been on the front line of COVID-19. For six months now, teachers around the world have been navigating
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29.07.2020

Teachers speak up about responding to COVID-19

Fifteen teachers from around the world shared their experiences ensuring that learning continued during school closures due
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04.06.2020

No electricity, no Internet, no online learning: Lara’s story

Shanghai, January 2020 I woke up one morning in the Chinese New Year holidays to find we were not going to return to school
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02.06.2020

Using technology to teach the remote classroom due to Covid-19

In Brazil, where I teach primary and secondary school, 82% of students are in public schools. Due to regional social
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25.05.2020

Near or Far as a TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More

TEAM is central to my philsophy of teaching and learning. Through 18 years of teaching, I have found TEAM supports learners
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20.05.2020

Teaching – the new blended way

As a head teacher, I have always felt that teaching means not only getting the curricular content right and imparting that
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15.05.2020

Preschool students thrive on distance learning – but yearn to get back to school

Greetings to you all from Turkey. My name is Nurten Akkuş. I am a Global Teacher Prize Top 10 Finalist. I am a preschool
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09.05.2020

Apollo-13ing teaching in a global pandemic

From the start of this global pandemic, my aims have been to help protect the health and wellbeing of my students, to
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08.05.2020

Distance cannot stop our learning

"What if lessons were like stories! What if we could watch those like cartoons on the TV!! Wouldn’t it be great fun, if