In the framework of the Water World Week celebrated in Stockholm, Sweden, on 16th August, 2008 the National Water Commission (CONAGUA), together with the International Hydrological Programme of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the WET International Project (Water Education for Teachers) signed an agreement, aimed at fostering high-quality water education, particularly for formal and non-formal educators in Mexico.
Before we get started, I want to recognize one of our greatest advocates for education and for teachers, our Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is here.
When we look beyond the issue of accessibility to the quality of education our children receive -- after all it should be fit for purpose -- the region has among the lowest education requirements for teachers, with 50% of countries requiring lower secondary school teachers to have completed no higher than a secondary education (so teachers have barely more education that their students).
Back in the olden days when I ran the Dallas Fed, we had an extensive outreach program for economic education, including seminars for teachers who taught economics in high school, often without much training themselves.
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The Lao Department of Education will organize teachers training workshops partnering with local teachers colleges for ethic teachers in primary education to ameliorate this situation.
Schools in England have been sent guidelines from the Department for Education on how to appraise teachers for performance pay from September.
The programme has been designed for both pre-service teacher education, i.e. for student teachers, and in the in-service education of experienced teachers.
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The Director-General, who will serve as Executive Secretary of the Steering Committee for the campaign, spoke at the launch and called for scaling up education and literacy for women to ensure that mothers put their children into school, for training more and better qualified teachers and for transforming education to develop global citizenship.
The law does not ban male teachers from teaching girls, but the Education Ministry prefers female teachers for girls.
The seminar aims to discuss the main achievements and challenges of teacher training, through the analysis of international experiences in education as well as discuss the Comparative Education in the context of the needs for improvement of basic education teachers.
Particularly, UNESCO Tashkent is providing technical advice for policy making and strengthening capacities of teachers for quality education and lifelong learning.
So I shared that story with a group of educators, and I am so pleased to share the good news today that the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education has partnered with the Military Child Education Coalition to promote training for future teachers.
He made the move from Oregon to Georgia to join Teach for America, a non-profit organization that recruits non-traditional teachers to improve education for children in low-income communities.
On the questionable side, in Idaho the state Board of Education approved new standards for online teachers.
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He came from a poor rural background, but he had managed, in the nineteen-sixties, to get a good education at a school for future teachers.
Slaughter, whose organization holds seminars on tribal language education and researches best practices for teachers, said she's witnessed a wave of interest in language renewal over the past two decades.
The workshop is organized by the International Task Force on Teachers for Education for All (EFA), in collaboration with UNESCO (Headquarters and Beirut regional bureau) and the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre in Bonn (Germany).
In the case of education, for example, a teachers' wages would come under current expenditure, while building a new school - a physical asset which will last a long time - would be classed as capital.
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As highlighted in the Digest, secondary education costs more than primary education mostly because of the need for teachers trained to provide subject-specific instruction.
The education secretary listed other suggestions for primary teachers, produced by other groups, including using characters such as Nemo, a fish from the Disney film of the same name or "Eddy the Teddy".
In this position, I have been able to have a hand in affecting necessary change in our school district while advocating for public education and public school teachers at the local, state, and national levels.
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During a bilateral meeting with the Rector and President of the University, Irina Bokova expressed deep appreciation for the translation and launch of UNESCO's flagship Information and Communication Technology Competency Framework for Teachers by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education in December 2011.
Appearing before the same committee, which has been set up to scrutinise the plans, Education Secretary Michael Gove was asked about the implications of legalising gay marriage for the teaching of sex and religious education in schools and was asked what protections there were for teachers who had moral and religious objections to same-sex marriage.
Labour spending plans for education would be matched under a Tory government, including the funding for extra teachers promised under the comprehensive spending review.
Strengthen teaching skills for multi-grade classroom for ethnic primary teachers from education disadvantage districts.
Without trained teachers for all, education for all will never be a reality.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has enacted a major reform of the education system that includes new standards for hiring teachers.
"The new school will help provide progression for teachers in Gaelic medium education by extending their prospects in the city and alleviate the pressure on the Woodside campus, " he said.
He has been author and co-author of a range of guidance booklets for teachers and has undertaken education advisory work in the Russian Federation and Georgia on behalf of the Council of Europe.
The legal frameworks of the ethnic-racial issue in Brazil will be presented as well as the experiences with elaboration of pedagogical material about African and African-Brazilian History and Culture for teachers working in primary education.
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