Hong Kong and Korea performed at the same level as Australia in reading in 2000, but outperformed Australia in 2018.
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High performing systems focus on the same things Australian governments do, but they work much more intensively on making these things happen.
South Africa isn’t producing enough teachers to meet the demand.
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What South Africa needs to do to recruit the number of teachers needed to offer quality education.
When faced with a class full of learners, student teachers must adapt theory to practice.
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Student teachers saw certain incidents in their classrooms as a learning process that caused them to act, respond and reflect so they could maintain quality teaching.
Relative to other careers, bright students who were surveyed didn’t see teaching as coming with career challenges.
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Our top-scoring students aren’t choosing to become teachers, and that has flow-on effects for the students who come after them.
Dilapidating infrastructure and poorly trained teachers are just some of the problems plaguing Nigeria’s education system.
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In addition to being poorly trained, Nigeria’s school teachers are being outnumbered by a growing population.
When teachers collaborate, they learn from each other.
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The need for qualified teachers is a major challenge in a number of African countries.
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A brief guide for teachers and parents on tech in the classroom.
Reading is a crucial skill, and several strategies can help children improve their reading.
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Initiatives to tackle South Africa’s reading crisis must take the country’s realities into account.
South Africa needs to build a reading culture.
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Every year South Africans spend twice as much on chocolate than they do on books
Much more must be done to keep teachers in South Africa.
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Policy needs to focus on making the teaching profession stable and more appealing. South Africa must ensure its locally trained teachers have more reason to stay in the country.
Students can feel very isolated when studying through a distance education programme.
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Distance education for teacher training has its problems. Improved support can address these issues - but some of it should come from students themselves.
Technology can be integrated into effective teaching and learning of physics at secondary schools in Mauritius.
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Gathering data and testing teachers’ knowledge allows researchers to develop scientifically-grounded advice for teacher education institutions.
Thousands of copper nails representing thousands of Indigenous children who died in Canada’s residential schools were hammered into the Reconciliation Pole before its raising at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., on April 1, 2017.
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Many Canadian teachers worry about how to incorporate Indigenous content into the classroom. For one sociology professor, finding Indigenous mentorship was richly rewarding.
A school teacher, leads a class at the Obama Primary School in Kenya.
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The impact of peace education or human rights courses ultimately depends on how teachers – who may not be neutral – implement them.
Children at a refugee camp in Greece.
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Child refugees need to have access to quality language programs so they have a chance at doing well at school - and teachers also need to be given appropriate training.
Having good, well-trained teachers in their early lives benefits children enormously.
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Many people look down on foundation phase teachers, believing it requires little training or expertise. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
How can we use data from international tests to improve student learning?
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Various forms of testing that reduce students’ knowledge, capacities and skills to a single number cannot of themselves help inform improvement.
Being a physics teacher is about teaching as much as physics.
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Because being a good teacher is about more than just subject knowledge.
Economics lecturers need to teach their students about more than just numbers.
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In both the global North and South, economics tends to be taught with micro- and macroeconomic models that are disconnected from sociopolitical realities. We suggest new ways of teaching economics.
Teachers need support to make sure they deal well with diversity and conflict.
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Teachers need training and support to deal with increasing diversity in their classrooms.