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This resource highlights the potential of AI in education to accelerate the progress and to create inclusive knowledge societies.
The toolkit provides early childhood teachers and school leaders with a set of practical and low-cost instruments that they can use to reflect on their own gender biases.
Comparative overview of various TaRL Application in India and Africa
Comparative overview of various TaRL Application in India and Africa
Through this implementation guide, you will get a jist of all the different aspects of a TaRL programme
Active learning @Home grade R-9 daily guides provide parents and caregivers with easy-to-do language and maths CAPS-based activities to support their children's learning at home.
Adding inputs into a classroom to support business-as-usual modes of schooling without changing anything else has not been effective at increasing learning outcomes.
All Children Learning Assessment Platform provides guidance for government experts, education in emergency (EIE) contexts, NGOs, and teachers on supporting and conducting assessments.
The number of children along with youth and adults are facing a major setback in attending the schools because of Covid-19 uncertainty.
This paper examines strategies for addressing the needs of refugee, migrant and internally displaced children in the Asia-Pacific region.
Toolkit to assess basic reading (English) and numeracy skills in children in the community/village on your own.
This case study examines Afghanistan's National Assessment Framework for Afghanistan in 2018, the first pillar of which is classroom-based formative assessment.
This resource is a self-administered tool that allows teachers to evaluate their feelings of self-efficacy, work-related stress, and self-care
Review of key aspects about formative assessment relevant to literacy development, includes guidance and information for implementation.
Guide describes how policy makers, donors, and implementing partners can design or refine assessments in the education system and connect those results to daily instruction.
Resource is intended to facilitate guided discussions and learning by parents, caregivers, and others.
This publication documents an action research initiative begun in 2007 which, over the past decade, has demonstrated the effectiveness of multilingual education on learning outcomes for children.
A resource for developing country partners to build effective and sustainable learning assessment systems: includes a manual and associate resources.
In this module, you can read informative materials on buidling mentoring and review capacities of diverse actors.
This resource provides tips and guidance for parents and caregivers to foster reading comprehension skills at home.
Investing in early childhood education has proven benefits, yet even before COVID-19, at least 175 million children were missing out on pre-primary education.
This paper examines the impact on and effectiveness for learning of remote learning using data from MICS6 and the UNESCO-UNICEF-World Bank's National Education survey.
This paper highlights trends, gaps, and emerging promising practices from the countries' remote learning responses implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A review of the WB-supported Teacher Education Improvement Project for Grade 1-4 Class Teachers in the West Bank and Gaza and has important implications for other developing countries.
This ICT in EiCC checklist guides users in making appropriate decisions about the use of technology to support educational interventions in a conflict-sensitive (CS) manner.
Initiative targeted mothers of children aged five to eight years old with the goal of helping them better support their children’s learning in primary school.
This guide is designed to help teachers develop their pedagogical skills in a step-by-step, supportive manner.
The World Bank’s Coach initiative aims to accelerate student learning by improving in-service teacher professional development (TPD)
When community programmes have been effective, they often improved both learning and participation; when they were not effective, they usually improved neither.
This document focuses on the assessment of children’s holistic learning and development (CHILD).
This report aims to deepen the distinction between formative and summative assessment, to demonstrate their complementarities, and to plumb their technical dimensions to promote its improved use.
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In this module, you will learn how TaRL programs can be designed and implemented through engaging resources.
This brief describes the state of the evidence, contextual and equity considerations when designing programs for girls, and suggestions for applying the information in practice.
This brief summarizes research findings and provides actionable recommendations for how to equitably scale up digital learning.
This global toolkit supports the inclusion and strengthening of Early Childhood Education (ECE) in the context of Education Sector Planning (ESP) processes and other analysis and planning efforts.
Guidance around appropriate policies and strategies for teaching and learning of early language and literacy and multilingual education in the varied language contexts in South Asian countries.
Early childhood education can be delivered through public preschools and kindergartens, encouraged by supporting parents to engage with their child’s education, or both.
Evidence shows that encouraging caregivers to play and interact with children improves cognitive development.
This report identifies critical areas for education decision-makers to consider when investing in EdTech for learning.
Bringing pre-primary education to scale: This Think Piece on pre-primary education, while acknowledging the need to increase access for children in vulnerable situations.
This Think Piece will detail the extent of parents’ and caregivers’ influence on learning and review evidence for concrete, feasible parent support by age group.
Evidence of programs that leverage education technology closely follow existing lessons about increasing learning outcomes from non-technology interventions.
This think piece puts forward three main arguments to improve teacher development goals, training and remedial education.
Technology-based innovations to improve early grade reading outcomes, with a focus on family and community engagement. Case studies implemented in Zambia, Mali, Mexico, and India.
Never has the saying “Home is the first school, and parents are children’s first teachers” been truer.
This Guidance Note aims to stimulate thinking into the unique challenges facing children from marginalized ethnolinguistic communities
This review provides a summary of existing research on pre-primary and highlights factors associated with high-quality programming in low- and middle-income countries and resource-limited contexts.
This toolkit provides program designers with information on how to develop and implement effective early childhood interactive audio instruction (IAI) programs in a range of settings.
This introductory webinar builds on the recent launch of the FLN Hub and aims to give an overview of the background and purpose of the FLN Hub, and orient participants to the contents of the Hub.
The FLN Hub: New Tools and Resources for Advancing Foundational Literacy and Numeracy
This blog summarizes the data around the reading learning gaps globally, and proposes solutions to help address the disparities.
Tool/Checklist for program coordinators to analyze current learning situation and to determine focus areas.
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This learning guide for teachers provides guidance on using assessment for learning across a variety of contexts, including in-person, hybrid, and distance learning, both online and offline.
Go to the Formative Assessments focus area to access resources on how to administer and develop assessments tools for TaRL instruction.
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This paper explores the ways countries in the Asia-Pacific region have ventured towards gauging learners progress in emergency situations.
This document provides inputs when preparing guidelines and procedures to support teachers and other responsible for conducting formative assessments
This case study examines Ethiopia's formative assessment initiative called Assessment for Learning (AfL).
Findings from a baseline learning assessment of accelerated learning centres (ALCs) in Afghanistan show that children attending ALCs are learning at similar levels or better than in government schools
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The Save Our Future report provides a set of recommendations to tackle the learning crisis by reorienting curriculum and targeting instruction to the level of the child.
This report identifies different forms of exclusion in foundational reading, how they are caused and what we can do about them.
GPG covers 5 principles: Making Teaching Attractive, Improving Pre-Service Education, Manage Teachers Better, Provide High-Quality Professional Development and School Leadership, Use Technology Wisely
This guide provides education actors with information about the effectiveness, implementation principles, and contextual considerations related to computer-assisted learning programs.
This guide provides education actors with information about the effectiveness, implementation principles, and contextual considerations related to computer-assisted learning programs.
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This guide provides education actors with information about the effectiveness, implementation principles, and contextual considerations related to parental engagement programs.
This resource provides a framework and guidelines for developing programmes for improving early learning outcomes in language and mathematics.
Provides information, guidance and resources to understand and address language issues in primary grade literacy programs
This tool measures early grade learners' literacy, numeracy, and social and emotional skills. It is based on the Syrian curriculum for grades 2-3.
Dashboard showing whether children are getting adequate access to primary, analyzes progression, and the transition progress from primary to secondary education
This detailed technical note discusses the ASER reading assessments.
It will cost US $1.4 trillion to achieve universal access to digital learning worldwide. How much will it cost to deliver universal digital learning in your country?
The number of children along with youth and adults are facing a major setback in attending the schools because of Covid-19 uncertainty.
The number of children along with youth and adults are facing a major setback in attending the schools because of Covid-19 uncertainty.
Descriptions of three TaRL implementation models via community volunteers, learning camps and government partnerships.
This publication discusses both qualitative and quantitative data for a renewed, action-oriented global commitment to universal and inclusive early childhood services.
This set of resources was developed by UNICEF Innocenti in partnership with UNICEF ECARO to support the marginalized caregivers of children with disabilities with inclusive education.
This How-To Note offers guidance for addressing ICT4E in education programming and is applicable across all levels, contexts, settings, and providers.
This policy brief from UNICEF Innocenti's Data Must Speak research in Lao PDR provides evidence on the need for investing in teacher capacity as a key to improving student learning outcomes.
This paper presents lessons on how transition programmes can mitigate the impact of COVID-19 pre-primary school closures on learning.
Pratham’s KhazaneKa Pitara Framework–100 Days of School Readiness package comprises simple material and ideas.
Pratham’s KhazaneKa Pitara Manual –100 Days of School Readiness package comprises simple material and ideas.
Pratham’s KhazaneKa Pitara Manual –100 Days of School Readiness package comprises simple material and ideas.
This overview is intended to provide an orientation on core concepts and issues related to language of instruction (LOI).
This toolkit summary provides guidance for adapting existing audio programs for use in home settings, with parents, caregivers, or older siblings as program facilitators.
Digital content for improving children's learning through games and activities.
This booklet provides handy tips parents can help their child develop FLN skills. It provides fun, inexpensive, accessible and practical activities parents and do with their child.
This literature review of language policy and education quality in the 21 countries of UNICEF’s Eastern and Southern Africa Region
This World Bank Policy Approach Paper on Language of Instruction offers an indication of the work that will be undertaken to support countries in introducing reforms.
There are two pathways through which financial resources may affect motivation and ultimately learning outcomes: merit-based aid and directly motivating student effort.
This case study looks at Sri Lanka's roll out of its Learning Recovery Programme to minimise the learning gap following COVID-19 school reopening.
The purpose of this guide is for stakeholders to establish an enabling CE environment, in which community engagement is intentional, structured and at the core of sustainable development progress.
This module explains the process of developing and adapting teaching learning materials for a TaRL programme. The module also includes sample materials in a number of different languages.
This module looks at the evidence from cost-effective education programs aimed at improving learning, especially foundational literacy and numeracy
This module explores the importance of foundational numeracy skills and introduces the tasks in the numeracy assessment tool.
This module explores the importance of foundational reading skills and introduces the tasks in the foundational reading assessment tool.
This module, provides an introduction to how the process of mentoring and review takes place in TaRL programme and who are the important actors to facilitate this process.