Quality Education Task Team for Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery

From its onset, INEE has emphasized the need to ensure quality of education in crisis and post-crisis settings.  Most recently, INEE undertook a consultative process to develop the INEE Guidance Notes on Teaching and Learning in 2009-2010.  Likewise, INEE members have named quality education as a key strategic area for INEE’s 2011-2013 Strategic Plan, ultimately calling for the creation of an INEE Task Team on Quality Education 

INEE Task Team on Quality Education in Preparedness, Response and Recovery officially launched on International Literacy Day, September 8th 2011!

Those interested in participating in this Task Team are requested to contact taskteams@ineesite.org for more information.

As a first step in the formation of the task team a preliminary mapping document has been created with inputs from INEE technical experts. This document highlights global initiatives, challenges and gaps focused on Quality Education and will help inform the task team’s work plan.

  • Download the Preliminary Mapping. Interested INEE Members are invited to review and provide feedback on the mapping exercise. In particular, please flag any major initiatives or gap areas missing and send inputs to task team convenor and education consultant Dean Brooks at livingston86@hotmail.com.
     
  • See the Quality Education Task Team TOR.


Conveners

  • Dean Brooks (Education Consultant); 
  • Vidur Chopra, Ed.D. Candidate (Harvard University);
  • Jessica Hjarrand (UNESCO Iraq).
  • INEE Focal Point: Liz Sweet & Arianna Sloat

 

Task Team Goals and Objectives

Goal: To improve the quality of teaching and learning in situations of preparedness, response and recovery.

It is foreseen that the INEE Quality Education Task Team will seek to:

  • Support the dissemination, implementation and training on the INEE Guidance Notes on Teaching and Learning, along with other relevant INEE Guidance Notes and resources (i.e., the Guidance Notes on Teachers Compensation).
  • Coordinate with the INEE Working Group on the Minimum Standards to incorporate modules on teaching and learning within Minimum Standards trainings and application visits as needed.. The task team will also link with the INEE Working Group on Education and Fragility and other task teams where relevant.
  • Provide feedback into upcoming revisions of the Guidance Notes on Teaching and Learning and Resource Pack.
  • Pilot the Guidance Notes on Teaching and Learning Teachers User’s Guide within their organizations.
  • Develop contextualization or application tools and tips for the Guidance Notes on Teaching and Learning as well as other relevant tools and resources.
  • Link existing good practice guidance to field level implementation through mechanisms such as the Education Cluster and quality education initiatives.
  • Leverage policy and advocacy opportunities to raise awareness about the good practices in the Guidance Notes to a broader audience.
  • Engage in research in order to gauge the usefulness, effectiveness and impacts of the Guidance Notes and to ensure a broader presence in the teaching and learning/quality education dialogue.


However, as with all INEE Task Teams, members of the Task Team will decide on specific areas of work and the ways in which this work will be taken forward.

Members

The INEE Task Team on Quality Education is open to anyone who is interested in Quality Education for Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery. If you are interested in participating in this Task Team please contact taskteams@ineesite.org to learn more.

Ongoing Work

In fall 2011 task team members will work with the team convenors and INEE Secretariat to develop a work plan for 2012-2013 for this task team, based on findings from the preliminary mapping exercise. Once developed, this work plan will be shared on the INEE website.

Key Resources

  • INEE Minimum Standards for Education: Preparedness, Response, Recovery
  • INEE Guidance Notes and Resource Pack on Teaching and Learning
  • UN General Assembly Resolution A/64/L.58 on the Right to Education in Emergencies
  • The ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers (1966) and The UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel (1997)
  • UNESCO Guidebook for Planning Education in Emergencies and Reconstruction
  • IASC Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Action
  • Right to Education Framework


Useful Websites