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Strengthening community participation in early childhood education

Community participation in early education

In this Q&A, the co-founders of Rocket Learning Azeez Gupta and Namya Mahajan, Curriculum Lead Sukhna Sawhney and Communications Manager Sushmita Roy tell Teacher how they are strengthening the early education ecosystem in India. Anganwadi centres are rural centres providing supplementary nutrition, basic healthcare, and preschool education in India.

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UNESCO calls for smartphone ban in schools

A major international report released today calls for smartphones to be banned in schools, pointing to concerns about data privacy, cyberbullying, wellbeing and among children themselves. Here are the key messages from the UNESCO 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report on technology in education.

Bookshelf: World-class learning systems

Our latest Teacher’s Bookshelf features Building a World-Class Learning System: Insights from some top-performing school systems, by Professor Geoff Masters. It explores what British Columbia, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong and South Korea have in common, the strategies they employ, and the decisions they are making to support students now and in the future.

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Enhancing teaching with bansho board writing

‘My experience as a teacher and researcher in Japan has allowed me to observe and study classrooms in depth. The first thing that caught my attention was the use of chalkboards.’ Dr Shirley Tan shares how the traditional Japanese technique of bansho board writing can enhance teaching and learning in your own classroom.

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Curriculum planning

Connecting a school’s mission and vision to daily learning

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Connecting a school’s mission to learning

In this reader submission, Meesha Arora – a teacher at The British School, New Delhi – discusses how schools can better connect their vision and mission statements to day-to-day learning activities and collect evidence and feedback to further guide teacher planning.

Video: Kiran Bir Sethi on a student-centred curriculum – Part 2

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Video: Two global student-centred programmes

In the final video in this 2-part series, Kiran Bir Sethi, Founder of The Riverside School in Ahmedabad talks to ACER India's Anannya Chakraborty about the school’s global programs – Design for Change and I CAN School.

A framework for learning through play

A new framework for learning through play has been developed to support teachers in the classroom and help guide policy and practice in the early years of schooling. The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and the LEGO Foundation have worked together to develop the framework.

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A STEM intervention program for students

In this interview, Kavita Sanghvi, Principal of Chatrabhuj Narsee Memorial School in Mumbai and winner of the National Teachers Award 2022 talks about the Global Outlook STEM program at her school.

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