World Teachers Day – 5th October 2012

World Teachers’ Day, held annually on October 5th since 1994 – when it was created by UNESCO – celebrates teachers worldwide. Its aim is to mobilise support for teachers and to ensure that the needs of future generations will continue to be met by teachers. Having been a teacher at pre-primary, primary, secondary, tertiary and

Celebrate World Teacher’s Day! Events, Tools and Resources

Celebrate World Teacher’s Day! October 5th is World Teacher’s Day and being a teacher myself I am more than happy to extol the vital place of teachers in society. As this year’s focus is on teachers who work in emergency or post crisis contexts I reflect on those teachers I have worked with in places

REPORT: Field Notes – Education in Conflict and Transition Contexts

From the latest Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies Bi-Weekly Bulletin REPORT: Field Notes – Education in Conflict and Transition Contexts (UNICEF) This Field Note outlines UNICEF’s role in providing education in conflict affected contexts. It presents recent developments in this field and discusses lessons learned and good practice based on our experience. Country case studies

Building capacity – Cluster based training in Vietnam

Well , having finished the manual on school based training, we immediately thought perhaps it is better if there were opportunities for teachers to work with teachers in other schools close-by. It is not new, but we have now embarked on  cluster based training. The work in PEDC covers 40 provinces and 126 districts, involving