Inclusive Education
Using Metacognition to Improve the Classroom Environment, Social-Emotional Learning, and Content Comprehension
This case study was created by Teach For Uganda alumnus Solomon Kamukama for the Inclusive Education fellowship. He explored how metacognitive strategies can be used to improve classroom culture, comprehension, and socio-emotional learning.
TACL
Letting Go of the Agenda
In this video from 2016, Ako Mātātupu Teach First NZ recognizes the ways in which we often approach community engagement with a pre-set frame of reference and a wish list of stories we want to hear. By letting go of these, we open up the possibility ...
Climate Education
Earth Manual Project
The Earth Manual Project showcases best practices for dealing with disasters at different stages, from preparedness education to response and relief efforts, with a particular focus on practices that use creative design ideas. Accounts from implement...
TACL
Identifying Purpose
This thought exercise for teachers will help you consider how different motivations lead to very different actions in the classroom. You will reflect on how often your daily actions are driven by other pressures, and how your daily actions might be d...
Inclusive Education
How Metacognition Boosts Learning
Youki Terada shares metacognitive strategies to use in class, such as exit tickets and pop quizzes. She also shares the importance of asking questions and how these are especially useful when preparing for tests and as review after tests.
Girls' Education
Evidence Brief: School-Based Interventions to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls
A policy brief on select school-based interventions that aim to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG) or improve attitudes that perpetuate VAWG. It focuses on intimate partner violence, dating violence, and non-partner sexual assault.
Girls' Education
HerAtlas: Monitoring the Right to Education for Girls and Women
UNESCO’s interactive tool that allows users to explore the educational rights of girls and women around the world. The scoring system enables users to visually monitor legal progress toward securing the right to education for women in all countries.
Girls' Education
To Keep or Not to Keep? Decision Making in Adolescent Pregnancies in Jamestown, Ghana
A study on the decision (to keep or terminate) factors and experiences surrounding adolescent pregnancies in Jamestown, an urban slum in Accra, Ghana. The main role players in decision making included family, friends, school teachers and the partner.