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Ensuring inclusive teaching and learning for educational recovery: practical ways forward

International webinar co-hosted by UNESCO, the University of Manchester and UNESCO’s International Bureau of Education (IBE).

Purpose of the webinar

The focus of this international webinar is on what needs to be done to improve teaching and learning in an inclusive way and the contributions of teachers as schools reopen. It will do this by analysing examples of promising innovations from different parts of the world.

This relates to and builds on the Framework for reopening schools, developed by several agencies including UNESCO in April 2020, and other guidance materials on school reopening. However, it focuses more specifically on the practice of teachers and how they can be supported to find ways of ensuring that vulnerable learners are genuinely included in schools.

Webinar programme

The webinar will address three questions:
• What teaching practices can ensure that all children and young people are included in schools when they reopen?
• How can these practices be encouraged and expanded?
• What are the challenges and how can they be overcome?

The concern with inclusive teaching and learning and the practice of teachers is in line with the recommendation of the UNESCO 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report on inclusion and education to ‘prepare, empower and motivate the education workforce: All teachers should be prepared to teach all students’. It also echoes the UNESCO report Education in a post-COVID world: Nine ideas for public action, which states that ‘teachers need to be more recognized and more highly valued; they are essential participants in defining the futures of education’.

The webinar will be held in English, French and Spanish with simultaneous interpretation also into international sign language.

Jun 22, 2021 02:00 PM in Paris