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Free webinar: International Trends in Open and Distance Education
Massey University and Open Polytechnic present a free webinar with ICDE Secretary General, Torunn Gjelsvik. The Secretary General will discuss international trends in distance and open education related to access, equity and scalability. Dr Mark Nichols from Open Polytechnic, the President of ICDE, will also join the conversation, together with Professor Giselle Byrnes, Provost of Massey University. There will be an opportunity for questions at the end of the session
Equity in Education: The Role of Women Leaders
Global School Leadership Webinar featuring Kathy Bartlett, Suchetha Bhat, Olanrewaju Oniyitan, Kathleen Chew, and V. Jayalakshmi on the topic of Equity in Education: The Role of Women Leaders.
Role of Gender in School Leadership PART II: Impact of Female School Leaders on Educational Outcomes
Drawing from the 2024 Evidence Review on gender in school leadership (available here), the two-part webinar series “Role of Gender in School Leadership" aims to offer deep insights into effective strategies for fostering gender equity in educational leadership. Watch this webinar as practitioners, researchers and policymakers from the global education space unpack the potential of improving female representation in school leadership to enhance educational outcomes and foster inclusive learning environments. In this webinar Aashti Zaidi Hai talks to Eline Versluys, Sister Zeph, Franco Mosso, and Veronica Cabezas.
Role of Gender in School Leadership PART I : Underrepresentation of Female School Leaders- PART I
Drawing from the 2024 Evidence Review on gender in school leadership (available here), the two-part webinar series “Role of Gender in School Leadership" aims to offer deep insights into effective strategies for fostering gender equity in educational leadership. Watch this webinar with professionals, researchers, and policymakers to deep dive into the underrepresentation of female school leaders and explore actionable strategies for overcoming systemic barriers hindering gender equity in school leadership roles, and discuss ways to dismantle them. In this webinar Sonakshi Sharma talks with Vongai Nyahunzvi, Gala Díaz Langou y Michael Boakye-Yiadom.
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.
Toolkit: Problem Solving Strategies
Welcome to the toolkit Strategies for Problem Solving of the Inter-American Teacher Education Network. This toolkit is aimed at professionals who work at different levels of teaching and want to learn about problem-solving strategies and their application in family, social and academic settings.
An important point to clarify is that the term “problem” does not refer exclusively to mathematics, but rather to the challenges that we face daily which are also problems to be solved through certain strategies.
The Toolkit can be downloaded at no cost and shared freely.
There are no pre-requisites.
Certificate: No certification is granted at this moment.
Modality: The Toolkit is self-guided and self-paced.
Welcome to the Problem Solving Strategies Toolkit, we hope these materials will meet the professional development needs of teachers in the Americas.
Toolkit: Effective Learning Objectives to Promote Critical Thinking
This free toolkit is aimed at all teachers interested in exploring in detail the characteristics of learning objectives and their importance in helping to effectively communicate what the student is expected to achieve; This is the basis of any instruction and is vital for the planning of all kind of teaching strategies especially the development of critical thinking. Participants who complete this toolkit will be able to identify the elements that affect the effectiveness of learning objectives by answering a series of reflection questions and will also be able to generate effective learning objectives for critical thinking development. There are no pre-requisites, all teachers from all academic areas and levels can participate. The Toolkit is self-guided, presents exercises of self-reflection and guided discovery and examples of application in the classroom.
Pedagogical Documentation Revisited
This monograph explores how pedagogical documentation can contribute to realizing Ontario’s renewed vision for education by bringing assessment for and as learning to life. Because pedagogical documentation is intended to uncover the student’s thinking and learning processes, it has the potential to help us look at learning in new ways, to assess flexibly with particular needs in mind and to individualize and differentiate our response.
Pedagogical documentation allows educators to see how thinking, learning, curriculum and assessment are intertwined. It offers them the opportunity to contribute to a fuller understanding of learning and to advance the research on effective practice, both locally and internationally.
The Digital Educator | A Primer
A course for educators interested in using digital technologies to create relevant, authentic, and engaging learning experiences. It enhances the knowledge of digital tools and the ways to use them meaningfully in teaching. Designed for both novice and expert users of technology to extend and supplement practice. This short course empowers educators on digital pedagogy. It focuses on using technology as an ecosystem to be leveraged for improved learner agency across virtual and hybrid learning scenarios. Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, educators learn to integrate digital tools to create impactful learning experiences. The course integrates social-emotional learning competencies promoting whole brain learning.
The Social Emotional Educator | A Primer
This self-paced interactive course provides educators with an introduction to social and emotional learning. Using a variety of interactive tools and pedagogies, educators experience the need and value of SEL for themselves and its powerful transformational role in cultivating safe, supportive, and inclusive classrooms for their learners. course builds knowledge and awareness of social and emotional competencies for educators themselves and supports the application of pedagogical practices in classrooms that build these competencies in learners. It is rooted in the importance of positive relationships between educators, learners, and the larger community.
Teacher Guide for Working with Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
The purpose of this teacher guide is to inspire teachers who want to work with climate change and sustainable development with their students. In this guide, you will find examples of teaching activities and teacher reflections on these activities. The activities described should be seen as inspiration. They could be adjusted according to a specific teaching context as preferred, thus aligned with the same objectives and perceived outcomes. The EU-project in which the activities were developed, was carried out with upper secondary students (aged 16-19). With smaller changes by the teachers, younger students can also work with the suggested activities. Beyond the goal of learning about climate change and sustainable development, the activities enable students to practice their critical thinking, and develop their communication and presentation skills.
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.
Blueprint and Toolkit for School-Based Teacher Development: Secondary
Created by Bob Moon, this Blueprint and Toolkit offers guidance and resources to support a 12–15 week program. It provides a detailed framework that can be tailored to suit the specific needs of a country, region, district, or school. Aimed at institutions looking to strengthen school-based teacher development (SBTD) to enhance school performance and improve student achievement, this resource is available as Open Educational Resources (OER), making it accessible to policymakers and those involved in implementing teacher development systems.
"Section 4: The Teacher Toolkit: Secondary" is organised around ten key questions. In responding to each question, you will find general commentary on the issues involved and activities that you can try out with your classes. There are also some descriptions of other teacher’s experiences to provide further guidance for you. The accompanying Key Resources should be used alongside the Blueprint and Toolkit when working through each question. The most relevant Key Resources in each case are listed at the beginning of each question.
Research Methods: Developing your research design
This MESHGuide is designed to provide teachers with practical strategies to develop interesting and relevant research questions and to formulate a research design to engage in research-informed practice in their school or setting.
This MESHGuide draws on a range of key literature in the field of social science research, and it has been informed by lessons learned from the author's research. The guide aims to help teachers to:
- understand the purpose of a research design
- understand the significance of formulating a research question
- develop the initial focus of your research by exploring different potential starting points for this
- understand different ways of categorising research questions
- identify the characteristics of good research questions and apply these in practice
- develop and evaluate your own research questions
- operationalize your research aim so that you can develop appropriate research tools to answer your research questions by developing question-method connections in your own research
- improve your research data through understanding the nature of validity and reliability and exploration factors that could impact on these
Research Methods: Doing a literature review
This guide is designed to help teachers to:
- understand how to use other people’s writing to inform their own research;
- develop a strategy for carrying out a search of the literature;
- organise the themes logically;
- evaluate the research they read;
- think about the features of a reflective literature review and explore how to achieve this in practice
This MESHGuide draws on a range of key literature in the field of social science research. Also its design has been informed by lessons learned from the author's research, which has focused on the following areas:
- developing effective collaborative learning in science
- factors influencing learning through play in the early years
- student teachers’ engagement with research and its impact on their developing practice
- constructivist informed practice in science within initial teacher education
- creativity in learning and teaching.
Research Methods- Considering Ethics in your research
This MESHGuide draws on a range of key literature in the field of social science research ethics. It is designed to help teachers to:
- Understand the significance of ethical concerns in the research process
- Identify the nature of the ethical issues that may be of significance in the design and implementation of their research
- Develop their research design in a way that takes into account ethical considerations, so that their research is as ethical as possible
- Understand the complexity of the process of gaining informed consent and enable them to achieve this
- Reflect on the complexity of research ethics
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.
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.
How to use ICT tools in teaching and learning
This booklet presents a selection of ICT tools to integrate into teacher training in Uganda. Every tool is accompanied with creative ideas and suggestions on how to engage learners and enrich lessons.
Technology enhanced learning
This course is an introduction to technology enhanced teaching and learning.