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- This booklet discusses strategies and practices for improving mathematics instruction including the opportunity to learn, focus on meaning, learning new concepts and skills while solving problems, opportunities for both invention and practice, openness to student solution methods and student interaction, small-group learning, whole-class discussion, number sense, concrete materials and students' use of calculators.
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- Douglas A. Grouws; Kristin J. Cebulla
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac04e.pdf
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- This booklet discusses the principles for effective tutoring including real-life goals, question and prompt, check and correct errors, discuss and praise, reading: support and review, writing: map and edit, mathematics: make it real and summarize, recruit and match partners, provide training and materials and monitor and give feedback.
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- Keith Topping
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac05e.pdf
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- This booklet presents the principles for effectively teaching an additional language including comprehensible input, language opportunities, language practice, learning strategies, listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar and comprehensible pronunciation.
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- Elliot L. Judd; Lihua Tan; Herbert J. Walberg
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac06e.pdf
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- This booklet outlines the psychological principles for how children learn including active involvement, social participation, meaningful activities, relating new information to prior knowledge, being strategic, engaging in self-regulation and being reflective, restructuring prior knowledge, aiming towards understanding rather than memorization, helping students learn to transfer, taking time to practice, developmental and individual differences and creating motivated learners.
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- Stella Vosniadou
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac07e.pdf
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- This booklet provides guidance on how to effectively prevent problem behaviour in young people which parents and educators have to deal with and can influence including start prevention early, positive consequences matter, effective negative consequences matter, build skills through practice, monitor a child's behaviour, limit opportunities for misbehaviour, reduce environmental stressors, limit biological risks, discourage aggression and create appropriate norms.
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- Sharon L. Foster; Patricia Brennan; Anthony Biglan; Linna Wang; Saud al-Ghaith
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac08e.pdf
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- This booklet highlights the importance of providing effective education for children on HIV and AIDS to halt the spread of the infection including professional trained and actively involved educators, establish partnerships, utilize non-conventional methods of teaching, introduce open communication, innovative teaching sessions, gender-specific approaches, dealing with culturally sensitive content, the value of peer-based support, skill-based education and monitoring and evaluation.
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- Inon I. Schenker; Jenny M. Nyirenda
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac09e.pdf
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- This report discusses the state of primary education in India. While access to primary education has been widened considerably, learning outcomes have not improved as much as expected. The report looks at why this is the case, focusing on the quality and quantity of teacher presence and interaction with students. It highlights factors that have an impact on teacher and student availability and goes on to make suggestions for improving the situation. This report was published in 2014 by the World Bank.
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- Deepa Sankar; Toby Linden
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/17800
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- This guide for teachers and those who train teachers discusses the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) within teaching and learning, including ICT in the world beyond the classroom, digital skills and modes of learning, ICT adoption and use, e-learning, assessing e-learning, integrating and implementing ICT, e-resources for learning, blended learning with Web 2.0 tools, web tools for teachers and changing learning environments. This guide was published by UNESCO in 2010.
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- Jonathan Anderson
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/publications-and-communication-materials/publications/full-list/ict-transforming-education-a-regional-guide/
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- This report evaluates the success of three interventions designed to widen access to early childhood development services in Cambodia. The three projects involved include: formal preschools, community preschools and home-based services. It describes the challenges that these three projects faced and discusses the lessons learnt from their respective successes and failures. This report was published by the World Bank in 2013.
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- Adrien Bouguen; Deon Filmer; Karen Macours; Sophie Naudeau
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/15900
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- This report highlights the importance of women teachers and the impact they can have on the enrollment and retention of girls in education. It examines why there are often few women teachers, assumptions about women teachers and teacher training and professional development. It also recommends strategies to increase recruitment of women teachers.
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- Jackie Kirk
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001459/145990e.pdf
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- This paper examines the impact of a large supply-side education intervention in the Philippines, the Third Elementary Education Project, on students' national achievement test scores. It analyses the results of a study into the impact of this intervention and draws a number of conclusions about its effectiveness at achieving its aim of improving student performance. This report was published by the World Bank in 2012.
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- Futoshi Yamauchi; Yanyan Liu
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/12078
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- This report examines how incentives influence teacher effort, including the number of hours that teachers spend preparing for classes and teacher provision of private tutoring classes outside class hours, using school survey data from Lao PDR. This report was published by WorldBank in 2013.
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- Hai-Anh H. Dang; Elizabeth M. King
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16920
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- This document outlines a set of courses (curriculum) on media and information literacy designed to be used by teachers to teach them and their students how to identify and assess the quality of information available through the media and other information providers. Part 1 introduces the curriculum rationale (including definitions and benefits of media and information literacies), its design and its main themes while Part 2 details the eleven core and non-core courses (modules) of the curriculum (including key topics, learning objectives and pedagogical approaches and activities for each course section). A glossary is also included which defines key terms used in this document. This document was published by UNESCO in 2011.
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- Carolyn Wilson; Alton Grizzle; Ramon Tuazon; Kwame Akyempong; Chi-Kim Cheung
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/publications-and-communication-materials/publications/full-list/media-and-information-literacy-curriculum-for-teachers/
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- This report presents the results of a survey on codes of conduct for teachers carried out in 24 countries (including India, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam) which examined the general perception of teachers' behaviours and attitudes, the content and coverage of the code, code development and design, implementation and dissemination of the code, the monitoring and application of the code and the perceived impact of the code.
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- Pippa McKelvie-Sebileau
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- International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001923/192392e.pdf
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- This document provides guidance to policy-makers on the use of mobile technologies to expand and enrich education. It defines mobile learning, examines the unique benefits of mobile learning, and presents guidelines on creating or updating policies related to mobile learning. This report was published by UNESCO in 2013.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002196/219641e.pdf
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- This report introduces the subject of education and educational attainment in South Asia. It provides a recent history of developments within education, including a substantial increase in access to education across the region. This, it argues, has not been accompanies by an improvement in educational attainment. It analyses the evidence and goes on to suggest why this might be the case, as well as making a number of recommendations for policies that it argues would improve learning outcomes. This report was published by the World Bank in 2014.
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- Halil Dundar; Tara Beteille; Michelle Riboud; Anil Deolalikar
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/18407
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- This report provides a framework for analysing current teacher policies and evaluating the standard of teaching, particularly in developing countries. It suggests that teacher effectiveness is a key predictor of student learning and goes on to make a number of policy suggestions for improving the quality of teaching. This report was published by the World Bank in 2012.
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- The World Bank Group
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/11926
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- This is the executive summary of a report on transforming Indonesia's teaching force. It summarises a number of key findings from a study into teacher management. It begins by describing some concerns about the standard of teaching in Indonesia and why teaching quality is important for improving student performance. It then goes on to describe the current challenges in attracting qualified candidates to become teachers and then concludes by making a number of policy recommendations that it argues would go some way to improving teaching quality in Indonesia. This report was published by the World Bank in 2010.
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- The World Bank Group
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2852
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- This report provides a detailed introduction to teacher management reforms in Indonesia. It describes the concept of teacher management and why it has become so important in Indonesia and then goes on to analyse the characteristics of the Indonesian teaching force. It discusses the need to attract high quality teachers and then keep them by that they are motivated and supported by their schools. The report concludes by making a number of policy recommendations for improving teacher management and the quality of teaching in Indonesian schools. This report was published by the World Bank in 2010.
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- The World Bank Group
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2853
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- This document provides an outline of the information and communications technology (ICT) competencies that teachers should develop to be able to teach their students to become effective learners through using ICT. The specific areas taught are understanding ICT in education, curriculum and assessment, pedagogy, ICT, organization and administration and teacher professional learning. This document was published in 2011.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002134/213475e.pdf
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- This report discusses methods of improving literacy teaching for beginning readers in low income countries. It highlights some key barriers to effective literacy teaching in these countries, including poor quality textbooks, large class sizes and multilingual students. It cites a number of studies on acquisition of reading and comprehension skills and the conclusions it draws from this literature review provides guidance for good practice in teaching literacy. This report was published by the World Bank in 2013.
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- Chiara Valeria Marinelli; Marialuisa Martelli; Prachayani Praphamontripong; Pierluigi Zoccolotti; Helen Abadzi
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16244
