Session Overview: Quality Imperative, Education for All

The quality imperative within Education for All: Teaching and learning essential skills for peaceful and productive societies


Global Consultation 2009, Istanbul

Wednesday 1 April 14:15-18:15, Concurrent Learning Session Block 4

Abstract

Children in emergency education situations often have to learn by rote with little comprehension and few resources, and sometimes in fear of their teachers. INEE Minimum Standards on teaching methods and curriculum enrichment may thus seem out of reach to field programme managers who lack the needed resources and training to implement unfamiliar approaches. These quality weaknesses lead to high levels of drop out, and students’ failure to achieve core competencies.

It is therefore vital to build global knowledge and capacity, including training of trainers capacity, to support effective teaching and learning in crisis and post-crisis situations, especially for essential skills. For this reason, INEE is establishing a Teaching and Learning Initiative, to promote dynamic inter-agency exchange of knowledge, experience and teaching learning materials, as well as develop a cadre of trainers able to work at national, regional and/or global level to increase teaching-learning capacity. This Initiative will be launched at the Istanbul session.

The Teaching and Learning Initiative will be a consultative process to assess needs and identify resources that can help field programmes implement the INEE Minimum Standards on Teaching and Learning. The Initiative will develop Guidance Notes, including case studies, focusing especially on the Education for All goals of sustainable literacy, numeracy and life skills (including education for peace and citizenship). The Initiative will collect resource materials useful for teachers and teacher trainers - for curriculum enrichment and improved teaching methods, and will prepare a Resource Pack to meet identified gaps and needs. INEE members will be invited to participate in trialling of these materials and for training as trainers.

Session participants will be invited to advise on the structure and content –including case studies - of the planned Guidance Notes and Resource Pack. Working groups will review the approach to themes of interest to participants such as: developing a curriculum framework, as well as textbooks/education aids, for schooling and for teacher training, that meets the Dakar goals especially for sustainable literacy, numeracy and life skills (including peace/citizenship); meeting psychosocial needs of students and teachers; and possibly: rapid emergency response; ECD; renewal of secondary and higher education.

Session Objectives

  • Objective 1: To assess needs of field operations for guidance and resources on curriculum, teaching learning materials and assessment of learning, especially for essential skills; identifying existing resources suited for sharing with others and possible resource gaps
  • Objective 2: To discuss ways of constructing INEE Guidance Notes on Teaching and Learning, and a related Resource Pack, especially for essential skills as well as identifying case studies that can be incorporated in the Notes.
  • Objective 3: To enable participants’ to support the Initiative through generating case studies, collecting general information on T&L in their own organizations, trialling of draft materials, upgrading their own expertise in this area and willingness to train others.


Expected Outcomes

  • Outcome 1: Needs assessment: guidance from participants on the needs of field operations for guidance and resources to support the effective and relevant teaching and learning, especially for essential skills, including the assessment of available materials and possible resource gaps.
  • Outcome 2: Design of Guidance Notes and Resource Pack: suggested structure and content of Guidance Notes and user-friendly Resource Pack, especially for essential skills and in relation to needs of INEE membership.
  • Outcome 3: Commitment: participants indicate their commitment to supporting the Teaching and Learning Initiative, in terms of generating case studies, collecting general information on T&L in their own organizations, trialling of draft materials, upgrading their own expertise in this area and willingness to train others.


Panel

Chair: Micael Olsson, World Vision International - The Learning Gap in Education in Emergencies: Teaching and Learning

Presenters:

  • Margaret Sinclair, Office of Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned
  • Pamela Baxter, Independent Cosultant
  • Yolanda Patricia Hartasanchez Calle, World Vision International


For further information on this session please contact the Session Coordinator Margaret Sinclair at {encode="ma.sinclair@gmail.com" title="ma.sinclair@gmail.com"}.

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