Centro de conocimientos

This paper describes the vision and key principles guiding the World Bank’s support to countries on teachers.

This note provides guidance on how to establish a numerical indicator to measure teaching practices through classroom observation tools, and how to benchmark this indicator to track changes in...

Many teachers in low- and middle-income countries lack the skills to teach effectively, and professional development (PD) programs are the principal tool that governments use to upgrade those skills...

This is the final report of the programme ‘Strengthening Pre-service Teacher Education in Myanmar’, through which UNESCO provided support to the improvement of pre-service teacher education in Myanmar...

With the aim to achieve gender mainstreaming in teacher education in Myanmar, this manual provides the materials and resources to run a gender awareness and a gender mainstreaming sensitization...

Inequality in access to high-quality teachers is an important driver of student socioeconomic achievement gaps. This article experimentally evaluates a novel nation-wide low-cost government program...

This paper considers how markets and non-market institutions determine the quantity, wages, skills, and spatial distribution of teachers in developing countries. Schools are a major source of...

Attrition of teachers has been a challenge facing most public secondary schools in Uasin Gishu County Kenya. Research studies have been conducted to check on the factors that influence the attrition...

Si bien los agentes políticos nacionales del Togo son conscientes del reto que supone el absentismo, los estudios sobre los factores, las políticas y las prácticas que influyen en la asiduidad de los...

El absentismo de los docentes representa uno de los principales retos para el logro del aprendizaje universal en numerosos países en desarrollo. Diversos estudios previos han señalado el absentismo de...

El absentismo de los docentes es un obstáculo persistente para el logro del aprendizaje universal en numerosos países en desarrollo, en los cuales las tasas de absentismo de los docentes pueden...

En muchos países de ingreso bajo y mediano, el absentismo docente representa un gran impedimento a la hora de alcanzar buenos resultados de aprendizaje. En Gambia, los datos empíricos disponibles...