Inclusion and Equity Learning Event 1: Attracting people with disabilities to the teaching profession

In the build-up to Global Disability Summit 2025 to be held on 2-3 April in Germany, the Inclusion and Equity in Teacher Policies and Practices Thematic Group are delighted to invite you to attend three knowledge exchange learning sessions on policies and practices on teachers with disabilities. 

This is the first of three learning sessions. The session will be interactive and participatory. Three members will make short presentations on the topic and participants will be invited to share their experience, evidence and learning in breakout rooms. The session will be facilitated in English language; however, we will welcome if there any volunteers who would like to facilitate breakout sessions in different languages.  We will use Team's chat function which allows to translate the conversation in different languages. 

In the first session, we are going to focus our discussion on attracting people with disabilities to the teaching profession and pre-service training. 

• What policies and guidelines exist in member countries to attract  people with disabilities to the teaching profession? 
• What kinds of supports are provided for people with disabilities to participate in teacher training programmes? 
• What are challenges and policy gaps in policy related to supporting people with disabilities to join teacher training programmes? 

As an output of this session, we will produce a knowledge brief. 

 Please register here.