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This paper explores the link between teacher wellbeing, attrition, and shortages in crisis-affected contexts, where conflict, refugee influxes, and under-resourced environments exacerbate challenges...

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...

This paper reviews an extensive body of research on teacher recruitment and retention, and identifies five major factors that influence teachers’ decisions to enter, stay in, or leave the teaching...

The report discusses teacher shortages in the United States and claims that current estimates likely underestimate the magnitude of the problem. When indicators of teacher quality (certification...

This brief explores strategies to prepare and retain effective special education teachers. Many states in the United States struggle with shortages of special education teachers. To address the...

This article summarises the findings of the 2010 report Teaching competency standards in Southeast Asian countries. Eleven country audit.

This report focuses on the status of development, implementation, and monitoring of teaching competency standards in 11 member countries of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization...

This publication is a product of a regional collaboration involving 11 Ministries of Education in Southeast Asia (10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations -ASEAN- countries plus Timor Leste) working...

This study, commissioned by UNESCO Office Beirut, analyses the situation of teachers in several Arab countries during the COVID-19 crisis. Given the importance of teachers as leaders and agents of...

This policy brief aims to provide research-informed policy guidance for the effective management of elementary-level teachers in public schools catering to Syrian refugees in Jordan. The guidance is...