An ongoing programme with UNESCO is training 10, 000 school principals in Kenya, Ghana, and India, while a second is focusing on training teachers in Lesotho and Kenya to improve STEM education for girls and women.
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Sunny Varkey is the Chairman of GEMS Education and Founder of the Varkey GEMS Foundation, educating 100, 000 students who represent more than 140 nationalities, and collaborating with UNESCO on school principals and teachers training.
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Eighty percent of the teachers with traditional training reported feeling prepared during their first year on the job, compared to just 50 percent of the alternative-certification teachers.
In Pakistan, through the project "Mobile Learning for Teachers" Nokia's Education Delivery application will help UNESCO to enable the delivery of high-quality educational materials to teachers who lack training and resources though mobile phones giving an opportunity to teachers to train themselves on the same level as professionally competent teachers.
Participating teachers were also offered separate teacher training workshops on education for human rights.
He told me his biggest challenge in education wasn't budget holes, it wasn't crumbling schools -- it was that the parents were too demanding. (Laughter.) He's had to import thousands of foreign teachers because parents insisted on English language training in elementary school.
The work in the Solomon Islands will be a continuation of an earlier project supported by JFIT (Japanese Funds in Trust) on strengthening the capacity of education ministries, teacher training institutions, teachers and principals completed in the last biennium.
The participants of the National Roundtable would deliberate upon various issues such as TVE in general school curricula, sustainable funding, training of teachers, effective coordination etc. and recommend viable solutions on the basis of in-country experiences and lessons learnt and successful practices overseas.
We have to move the conversation about teacher quality forward, beyond a narrow debate over merit pay and job protection, to one focused more broadly on how to insure that teachers receive adequate support and training to meet the academic needs of their students and to ascertain their effectiveness in the classroom.
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Governments are urged to provide teachers with access to training opportunities and continued professional development, based on appropriate qualifications.
And he also called on the Training and Development Agency for schools to review how initial teacher training equips new teachers to deal with challenging behaviour.
Cook Islands young people care and are very much aware about their educational environment, be it available resources, asbestos at Nikao Maori School, flooding at Avarua School, or well trained teachers and the effect the possible closure of the Teacher Training College will have on their future.
There will also be two training courses, one on an e-government, human rights and citizens' participation multimedia guide for teachers, and a second one on the use of Greenstone for the development of digital libraries.
As part of that training of teachers, school districts need to impart that what is said in class can spread like wildfire on social media and other sites.
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Turning soldiers into teachers with no training is like trying to turn teachers into soldiers with no training, she argues, saying plans for the school are based on a shaky academic foundation.
Apart from legalising the right to education, the act places the onus on governments and local authorities to provide schools and sets out standards and norms covering numbers of teachers, training and curricula.
We can gut education to pay for tax breaks that we don't need, or we can recruit 100, 000 new math and science teachers -- (applause) -- focus on early childhood education, provide job training for 2 million more workers in our community colleges, help to lower tuition costs for our students going to college.
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