Teachers and Quality of Education
Teachers and Quality of Education
Coordinator(s)
UNESCO, ILO, UNICEF and Education International
Partners
UNESCO, ILO, UNICEF, Education International and other partners.
Goals
1. Improvement of teachers’ education, with the aim of enabling large numbers of teachers to provide quality basic education for all.
2. Strengthened mechanisms for social dialogue in education by means of information sharing, consultation and negotiation on policies, financing, and teaching/learning conditions that ensure full participation of teachers, their organizations and other educational stakeholders in key reform decisions.
Strategies
1. Strengthen high quality, relevant, and professional standard initial teacher education and lifelong professional development.
2. Establish subregional, interministerial and intersectoral processes for enriching the quality of teacher education reform in order to meet the Dakar goals. Strengthen and institutionalize social dialogue mechanisms between education authorities and teachers’ organizations.
Activities
1. Review of teacher education, recruitment and/or deployment, professional and material conditions and social dialogue mechanisms in the United Republic of Tanzania. This activity will be extended to six other pilot countries involved in the preparation of a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) (two each in Africa, Asia and Latin America). Evaluation of selected Écoles Normales Supérieures in French-speaking Africa.
2. Development of minimal sub-regional standards for qualifications for entry into the teaching profession in subregions where such common standards are desired but currently lacking.
Achievements
Achievement to date: ongoing activities.