For the last several years, our foundation has been working with more than 3, 000 teachers on a large research project called Measures of Effective Teaching, or MET.
Yayorin ( www.yayorin.org) is an Indonesian-based conservation project with the mammoth task of teaching its people about conserving the forest and its creatures, with the chief aim being saving existing populations of orangutans.
Commissioned as part of the UNESCO-USA-Brazil project Teaching Respect for All and carried out in cooperation with the Centre of Human Rights Education, Lucerne, Switzerland, the study also makes recommendations in terms of content, methodology, usability and process for the future development of education materials against racism, discrimination and intolerance.
The Los Angeles Times has embarked on a project to measure the impact of effective teaching.
Starting in 2009, the Gates Foundation supported a project known as the Measure of Effective Teaching, or MET, which worked with 3, 000 teachers to come up an evaluation and feedback system that helped teachers improve.
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Jointly organized by UNESCO, the Secretariat on Policies of Promotion of Racial Equality (SEPPIR), Ministry of Education and Ministry of External Relations of Brazil, the meeting allowed international experts to discuss the major components of the project such as the policy guidelines and teaching materials that have now been drafted by specialists and how to implement pilot testing with interested countries and partners.
During the first stage of the project, this secretariat has taken on two fundamental tasks: documenting the State of the Art in teaching policy in the region, and drawing up criteria or guidelines for policy making in the field.
The UNESCO-USA-Brazil Teaching Respect for All Project has the goal of outlining a curriculum structure that promotes tolerance, adaptable to the contexts and necessities of different countries.
Thirdly, the project proposes the design and implementation of career paths oriented towards strengthening the teaching profession and attracting good candidates, requiring the adjustment of policies on remunerations and incentives, promotion, performance assessment and the assignment of roles and functions.
The workshop agreed on a roadmap for the project, including the set up of several task forces to deal with issues such as teaching materials, literacy environments, etc.
The RSSCSE have run the CensusAtSchool project for the last 10 years and have a great deal of expertise on data collection in schools and creating teaching and learning resources relating to data.
Launched in January 2012, the UNESCO-USA-Brazil project Teaching Respect for All aims to promote educational responses to counter discrimination and violence through strengthening the foundations of mutual tolerance, and cultivating respect for all people, regardless of colour, gender or national, ethnic or religious identity.
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