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Policy Brief: Leveraging MOOCs for Teacher Development in Low-Income Countries and Disadvantaged Regions
This policy brief looks at open digital distance learning and the potential of massive open online courses (MOOCs) to deliver and support teacher development in low-income countries and disadvantaged...
Report
Teachers and teaching in Sierra Leone: Teacher quality management study
This study analyzes the scope and content of the teaching profession in Sierra Leone, describing its main challenges and providing recommendations to better align teacher training with education needs...
Report
Teachers in Lebanon: Understanding the quality of teachers’ instructional practices and performance
This study presents the findings of the Research for Results initiative, which aimed to carry out a comprehensive review of education service delivery in Lebanon and recommend effective policy...
Manual / Handbook / Guidelines
How do we know teacher professional development is working?: Measuring changes in teaching practices in the classroom
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...
Article
Teacher professional development around the world: the gap between evidence and practice
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...
Report
Teachers and teaching in Sierra Leone. Teacher quality and management study
This study analyzes the scope and content of the teaching profession in Sierra Leone, describing its main challenges and providing recommendations to better align teacher training with education needs...
Report
Survey of teachers in pre-primary education (STEPP): lessons from the implementation of the pilot study and field trial of international survey instruments
The Survey of Teachers in Pre-primary Education (STEPP) is the first international early childhood care and education (ECCE) personnel survey designed for low-and-middle-income countries, aiming to...
Report
Teach in action: Three case studies of Teach implementation
This document summarizes three cases of Teach Primary implementations in Guyana; Mozambique; and Punjab, Pakistan, highlighting how the tool has been deployed in the field and describing its impact on...
Manual / Handbook / Guidelines
Teach primary. Observer manual
Teach Primary is a free classroom observation tool that provides a window into one of the less explored and more important aspects of a child’s education: what goes on in the classroom. The tool is...
Policy document
Curriculum globALE: competency framework for adult educators
Curriculum globALE is a modular and competency-based framework curriculum for the training of adult educators worldwide. The learning outcomes described in the curriculum constitute a qualification...
Report
How can teaching be professionalized?
In recent decades, several educational systems in Latin America have undertaken reforms to professionalize teaching. In this current study, the Latin American Coalition for Teaching Excellence, in...
Policy document
Continuous professional development handbook. A guide to continuous professional development for teachers, school directors and education specialists in Cambodia
Drawing on the 2013 Teacher Policy and the 2015 Teacher Policy Action Plan, the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Framework and Action Plan for teachers and school directors was developed in...