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    FCA & TWB Distance Education & Digital Pedagogy Manual

    This teacher training manual on Distance Education & Digital Pedagogy supports teachers and other education personnel’s continuous professional development in pedagogically high-quality distance education and remote learning especially in diverse, low resource contexts and is adaptable for use anywhere in the world.

    The manual has been developed by Finn Church Aid (FCA) and Teachers Without Borders (TWB) Finland. The development of the training materials began already in 2020 as a response to the school lock-down situations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, when teachers and learners quickly had to adapt to remote education modalities. Even though the pandemic has subsided, the need for quality distance education prevails. Ensuring the continuity of learning for all learners is critical in all contexts, even and especially during crisis situations.

    The training manual consists of eight (8) training modules that can be used flexibly:

    1. Distance Education,
    2. Distance Education Modalities,
    3. Pedagogy of Digital and Distance Education,
    4. Psychosocial and Emotional Wellbeing,
    5. Learner-Centred Methods in Distance Education,
    6. Home Support – Parents and Caregivers’ Role and Collaboration,
    7. Inclusive Education, and
    8. Assessment and Evaluation.

    The content design allows the trainer or facilitator to pick individual modules or sessions and adapt the training content according to the context and target group’s needs.

    We hope you find it useful!

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    Differentiated Instruction in Displacement Contexts. Workshops Facilitation Guide

    In this guide, there are prompts to support exploration of the content and application to the local context. There are also tips to support educators as they make space and time for professional learning within their busy and, often, stressful lives. Finally, this guide offers some advice regarding online, and/or other technological aspects, of this training.

    The Quality Holistic Learning Project (QHL), of which this face-to-face workshop is one element, aims to prepare educators to deliver high-quality lessons which support holistic learning for children and youths of diverse backgrounds (refugee, migrant, and/or citizen) within host country, displacement, and crisis contexts. They define quality holistic learning as that which attends to:

    • academic, cognitive, and identity development,
    • social and emotional learning, and
    • mental/psychosocial and physical well-being and which delivers: positive schooling experiences, ● feelings of belonging and safety, growth and development, and equitable outcomes for all learners.

     

     

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    Estrategias para el Aprendizaje Socioemocional desde el Currículum Nacional

    Este manual ofrece a los docentes el contexto necesario para implementar el aprendizaje socioemocional en el aula. Proporciona una base teórica y se alinea con el currículum nacional chileno. Incluye ejemplos de actividades que pueden desarrollarse en diversas materias y espacios de la vida escolar, abarcando desde la educación primaria hasta la secundaria. El objetivo es facilitar la integración del aprendizaje socioemocional en las prácticas educativas diarias, promoviendo un ambiente escolar más inclusivo y comprensivo. 

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    Play & resilience: a toolkit for teachers, caregivers, and other stakeholders

    Play is an easy, natural and universal practice that builds resilience. Play comes naturally to all children- and is a seemingly simple and light-hearted phenomenon. The power of play as a pathway to building resilience needs to be leveraged to provide children with the opportunity to further explore play in their home and school environments.

    This toolkit is therefore premised on the objectives to build the capacity of various stakeholders such as caregivers/teachers, school managers, curriculum planners and policy makers who are key actors in the process of growth and development of children. It is also aimed at equipping these stakeholders with the knowledge and pedagogical skills to translate research, policy and curriculum to practical knowledge and activities for children in the school environment. The toolkit offers directions for facilitators who will be working with caregivers/teachers using the materials and resources provided and other relevant materials available in an environment where it will be used.

     

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    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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    Teaching to prevent atrocity crimes: a guide for teachers in Africa

    This is UNESCO's first resource with a regional focus on teaching to prevent atrocity crimes. It was developed with the United Nations and in partnership with the UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA). The guide was informed by exchanges with African stakeholders and advisors and tested through a piloting exercise with African teachers and students. It provides principles for teachers to consider in facilitating learning and constructive discussions with their students.

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    Transformative pedagogy: a teachers’ guide for peace and resilience building in North Africa

    This guide is designed to build the capacity of teachers so that they are informed and empowered in why and how to educate for peace-building. It offers an analysis of conflict, examines the role of ethics, expands on the elements of transformative pedagogy. It also provides practical tools to support learners’ active participation in shaping the world around them and assess learners’ understanding of peacebuilding concepts and skills, all while engaging the community.

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    Youth empowerment for peace and resilience building and prevention of violent extremism in Sahel and surrounding countries: a guide for teachers

    This guide is designed to build the capacity of secondary school teachers and teacher educators to integrate a peace and resilience building approach in education for the prevention of violent extremism. It builds on the Transformative Pedagogy for Peace-building guide and it was contextualized to the context the Sahel and surrounding countries.

    The guide redefines the role of teachers, inviting them to make a paradigm shift in adopting a transformative pedagogy that allows learners to actively participate in their own learning. Transformative pedagogy builds on active pedagogy and the competencies-based approach. The guide concludes with engaging learning activities to support experiential learning.

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    Transformative pedagogy for peace-building

    This guide is designed to build the capacity of teachers so that they are informed and empowered in why and how to educate for peace-building. It offers an analysis of conflict, examines the role of ethics, expands on the elements of transformative pedagogy and provides practical tools to assess learners’ understanding of peacebuilding concepts and skills. It concludes with 20 engaging activities to support experiential learning.

    The guide was developed as part of the "Teacher Training and Development for Peace-building in the Horn of Africa and Surrounding Countries project", which has as a long-term goal to develop a critical mass of teachers able to implement effective teaching and learning essential for preparing peace-loving and productive youth in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda.

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    A teacher's guide on the prevention of violent extremism

    This is UNESCO’s first teacher’s guide on the prevention of violent extremism through education. It was developed in order to ensure its relevance in different geographical and socio-cultural contexts. Therefore, it can be used as it is or further contextualized, adapted and translated in order to respond to the specific needs of learners. 

    The guide seeks to:
    - provides practical advice on when and how to discuss the issue of
    violent extremism and radicalization with learners;
    - help teachers create a classroom climate that is inclusive and conducive
    to respectful dialogue, open discussion and critical thinking.

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    Dear Kitty: teacher's guide for the film Where is Anne Frank?

    This guide provides teachers with the necessary tools to highlight historical and current themes from the animated film "Where is Anne Frank".

    It includes a preparatory lesson, a lesson to discuss the film and four detailed thematic follow-up lessons. The film and the lessons are accompanied by extensive background information and ready-to-use worksheets with information, questions and assignments.

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    Recommendations for teaching and learning about the Holocaust

    Benefiting from the expertise of delegates from more than 30 member countries, the IHRA Recommendations for Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust are intended to provide a basis for policymakers, practitioners, and educators that will help them:
    1. Develop knowledge of the Holocaust, ensuring accuracy in individual understanding and knowledge and raising awareness about the possible consequences of antisemitism;
    2. Create engaging teaching environments for learning about the Holocaust;
    3. Promote critical and reflective thinking about the Holocaust including the ability to counter Holocaust denial and distortion;
    4. Contribute to Human Rights and genocide prevention education

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    Anti-bullying teacher's handbook

    This anti-cyber bullying resource is designed to enable students to develop a positive sense of themselves and a commitment to caring for themselves and others.

    It includes a set of ten lesson plans that is intended to be used by teachers and schools who wish to address the issue of bullying as a whole, with particular focus on the issue of cyber bullying.

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    Cyberbullying on social media: an analysis of teachers’ unheard voices and coping strategies in Nepal

    Teachers can be potential victims of cyberbullying, particularly targeted by their students at their workplaces.

    This article explores teachers' individual coping strategies of sharing, ignoring and enhancing self-efficacy to handle technology strongly and confidently, and it concludes with the implications of collaborative coordination necessary for the development of strong policies and strict cyber laws for ensuring teachers’ cybersecurity in similar contexts.

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    Teachers’ self-efficacy in preventing and intervening in school bullying: a systematic review

    This article presents a systematic review of existing literature on the extent of teachers’ self-efficacy in managing bullying and its connection to the likelihood that teachers will intervene in bullying, to their intervention strategies, and the prevention measures they employ, as well as students’ bullying behavior and their experiences of victimization.

    The study presents practical implications in relation to teacher initial education and professional development: teachers with higher self-efficacy tend to intervene more often in bullying situations, so it's important that teacher training programs are designed to support teacher's self-efficacy, through the use of appropriate methods, such as the use of role-play to practice specific professional behaviours.

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