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    Guía para el fortalecimiento del vínculo escuela-familias

    Esta guía, desarrollada para el contexto educativo chileno, destaca la importancia del vínculo entre la escuela y la familia. Este recurso ofrece estrategias para fortalecer la colaboración entre ambos, reconociendo que una relación sólida y cooperativa mejora significativamente el desarrollo académico y emocional de los estudiantes. La participación activa de las familias en el proceso educativo fomenta un ambiente de apoyo y confianza, esencial para el éxito escolar. Además, promueve una comunicación efectiva y continua, asegurando que las necesidades y expectativas de los estudiantes sean comprendidas y atendidas de manera integral.

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    STEAM +género - Una propuesta para fortalecer la educación inicial con equidad

    Esta guía, creada en colaboración entre el Ministerio de Educación de Colombia y la Fundación Siemens Stiftung, con apoyo de la OEA, busca integrar el enfoque STEAM con perspectiva de género en la práctica docente. Centrada en los sistemas educativos de Colombia y Chile, promueve la equidad de género desde la primera infancia, fomentando la participación de niñas y niños en ciencia y tecnología. A través de experiencias educativas y políticas, se pretende reducir estereotipos de género y promover una educación inclusiva y de calidad.

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    Módulo de Etnoeducación para Docentes - Nivel Elemental

    Este recurso pedagógico a destinación de los docentes y elaborado por el Ministerio de Educación de Ecuador, incluye definiciones desde distintas perspectivas, como la sociológica y la psicopedagógica. Proporciona una contextualización curricular, vinculando los aprendizajes y competencias definidos en el currículo nacional ecuatoriano. Además, ofrece planes de lecciones y recursos para trabajar con alumnos desde la educación primaria hasta la secundaria baja, abordando temas históricos, de organización social y de las tradiciones de las poblaciones afrodescendientes del país.

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    • 2020

    Teacher's guide on early grade reading instruction

    Reading is a fundamental ability for all other learning activities. Students can learn only when they comprehend, and this requires appropriate reading skills in the first place. Appropriate reading skills support the learning of increasing amounts of instructional content. This is why children who fail to learn to read during their early years of schooling will encounter more difficulties in later grades and a higher risk of drop out. Quality early grade reading instruction is critical in preventing these challenges and risks as well as in protecting children’s rights to education and ensuring better chances of success in their life.

    Teachers are at the center of reading instruction and they need to be trained with pedagogical knowledge and management skills in order to provide students relevant and quality instruction. It has however been noted that teachers in many countries, especially low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa, lack the proper training and support on ways of teaching early grade reading to their students. Therefore, a comprehensive and practical guide on early grade reading is highly needed to bridge this gap.

    This guide aims to empower teachers in Africa by equipping them with the knowledge and skills of early grade reading, including the simple identification of the main pillars of reading, lesson planning and classroom management, taking into account the context in Africa. Subsequently, these teachers will help their students build basic reading skills in their early years of schooling.

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    • 2020

    A Teacher's Guide for Arts, Music and Drama in Africa

    Art, music and drama have had a pivotal role in the livelihood of human beings. This is clear by the wealth of literature, architecture, fine art, theater and music that define human past, present and future. The inherent creative ability and a yearning to express ourselves is what gives value to art, music and drama as companion components in human evolution. 

    This teacher's guide covers art, music, dance, drama, experiential learning, community engagement, and how to integrate these aspects into curriculum. Additionally, this document provides lesson plans for primary school students in these subject areas. 

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    Guía docente para el desarrollo de la lectoescritura emergente. Incluye orientaciones para su tratamiento en contextos bilingües

    Guía de apoyo al trabajo docente, cuyo contenido fortalece las competencias metodológicas de los docentes para orientar el desarrollo de habilidades de la lectoescritura emergente, en el idioma materno, de las niñas y niños atendidos en el nivel de preprimaria. La guía está estructurada en dos partes:

    I parte: fortalece los conocimientos acerca de la competencia de lectoescritura y de la etapa de lectoescritura emergente en particular, enfatiza el papel que juega la escuela y la importancia de aprender en el idioma materno.

    II parte: describe las habilidades de la lectoescritura emergente y para cada una, sugerencias de actividades para realizar en el aula.  Además, ofrece orientaciones específicas para desarrollar estas habilidades en contextos bilingües.

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    Boite à outils éducative pour lutter contre les stéréotypes sexistes à l'école primaire

    Cet ouvrage est une boîte à outils destinée aux enseignants du primaire pour aborder l'égalité des genres et le secteur des transports avec les élèves de 6 à 7 ans. Basé sur un apprentissage actif, il propose des grilles d’auto-évaluation pour les enseignants, ainsi que des activités pédagogiques sur les stéréotypes sexistes et les métiers dans le transport. L'objectif est de montrer aux élèves que les carrières dans ce domaine sont accessibles à tous, sans distinction de genre. L'enseignant y trouvera également les supports nécessaires à la réalisation des activités.

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    • 2021

    Media and information literate citizens: think critically, click wisely!

    This pioneering curriculum presents a comprehensive competency framework of media and information literacy (MIL) and offers educators and learners structured pedagogical suggestions. It features various detailed modules covering the range of competencies needed to navigate today's communications ecosystem. This resource links media and information literacy to emerging issues, such as artificial intelligence, digital citizenship, education, education for sustainable development, cultural literacy, and the exponential rise in misinformation and disinformation. With effective use of this media and information literacy curriculum, everyone can become media and information literate as well as peer-educators of media and information literacy. 

    This UNESCO model MIL Curriculum and Competency Framework for Educators and Learners is intended to provide education systems in developed and developing countries with a framework to construct a programme enabling educators and learners to be media and information literate. UNESCO also envisions that educators will review the framework and take up the challenge of participating in the collective process of shaping and enriching the curriculum as a living document. The first edition and this second edition of the MIL curriculum have benefited from several series of collaborative and intercultural expert debates and recommendations. The curriculum focuses on required core competencies and skills which can be seamlessly integrated into the existing education system without putting too much of a strain on overloaded education curricula. 

    The target groups for the curriculum are essentially educators and learners. Educators and learners are understood in the broadest sense of the terms to include teachers at the secondary and primarily tertiary levels, persons involved in training or learning on all forms in NGOs, CSO, community centers, the media, libraries, online or offline. Given that the curriculum was developed with adaptation in mind, it can be used by various stakeholders interested in the field of MIL. Users may need to adapt the content to make it more relevant or accessible to specific target groups. The curriculum is also relevant to government officials and ministries, and other social and international development organizations.

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    • 2020

    Assistive Technologies: Inclusive Teaching Guidelines for Educators

    Assistive technologies encompass tools and services designed to enhance learners' independence, participation, and success, helping them reach their full potential. This guide explains how educators can use assistive technology to create an inclusive environment that supports diverse learning styles and information processing. It introduces various assistive technologies that cater to individual learner needs, helping them overcome challenges. Educators should view assistive technologies as resources for all students, integrating them into the classroom to ensure widespread benefit and minimize the risk of stigmatization.

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    Teaching and Learning with Living Heritage: A Resource Kit for Teachers

    This resource kit includes several components that provide teachers with information on why and how to incorporate living heritage into their school based activities. It was developed as a result of the UNESCO–EU initiative on cultural heritage and education, under the European Year of Cultural Heritage in 2018, and it builds on projects across a variety of subjects developed by teacher from 10 countries.

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    • 2020

    Active Teaching and Learning Manual

    The Active Teaching and Learning booklet presents the principles and practices of learner centered pedagogy as a teaching approach to achieve quality education. It is accompanied by cards on methods, techniques and tools, which provide teachers with examples and tips for classroom implementation. The booklet was developed by the Teacher Instructor Education Training department of the Ministry of Education, Science Technology and Sports of Uganda, with support from the Belgian Development Agency, in the framework of the Teacher Training and Education project.

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    • 2021

    Mathematics lesson starters for Grade 3 learners

    A set of teacher guides containing each 6 Mental Mathematics Lesson Starter units for Grade 3 learners, in alignment with the South African curriculum. A different calculation strategy is in focus in each unit. These calculation strategies are taken from the curriculum. Each unit covers a particular group of connected skills, and the aim is to move learners on from counting in ones on their fingers or with tally marks on paper.

    Each unit is three weeks long; it begins and ends with a short test for the learners. Marking these tests provides information for the teacher and the learners about how much they have improved in using that particular set of skills during the three weeks. Within each unit, the focus is on three types of calculations: fluency, strategic calculating and strategic thinking.

    Working through the Lesson Starters in each unit should lead to improvements in learners’ performance from the pre to post-tests. These improvements show progress in mental mathematics skills and number sense.

    The guide is available in 11 official languages of South Africa.

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    • 2020

    Addressing anti-semitism in schools: training curriculum for secondary education teachers

    This publication is part of a four-volume set of training curricula to address anti-Semitism in schools. This volume focuses on the training curriculum for secondary education teachers. Each volume in this set aims to assist trainers in the field of education globally to work effectively towards strengthening the capacity of teachers to prevent and respond to antiSemitism, this specific and highly dangerous type of prejudice directed at Jewish people. In this sense, the curriculum addresses anti-Semitic prejudice and perceptions of Jews, phenomena which often also fulfil a social and political function in societies around the world; it is not material aimed at preparing teachers for intercultural dialogue.

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    • 2020

    Addressing anti-semitism in schools: training curriculum for vocational education teachers

    This publication is part of a four-volume set of training curricula to address anti-Semitism in schools. This volume focuses on the training curriculum for vocational education teachers. Each volume in this set aims to assist trainers in the field of education globally to work effectively towards strengthening the capacity of teachers to prevent and respond to antiSemitism, this specific and highly dangerous type of prejudice directed at Jewish people. In this sense, the curriculum addresses anti-Semitic prejudice and perceptions of Jews, phenomena which often also fulfil a social and political function in societies around the world; it is not material aimed at preparing teachers for intercultural dialogue.

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