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EIU Best Practices Series No.32: Teacher Training and Whole School Approach for Improving Teacher EIU Competences Year of publication: 2013 Corporate author: APCEIU This monograph is one of APCEIU's EIU Best Practices Series, which aims to encourage educators, scholars, and activists to implement and share local initiatives on EIU. The Series No.32 introduces two cases in which primary and secondary school teachers in Beijing were trained to promote EIU in respective communities. As teachers developed their EIU competence and awareness, students learned to be more open-minded, respectful, and tolerant. The issue highlights the important role educators have in instilling EIU values and shaping perception. 
Promoting inclusive teacher education: materials Year of publication: 2013 Author: Ian Kaplan | Ingrid Lewis Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok ‘Promoting Inclusive Teacher Education’ is a series of five advocacy guides. The guides discuss challenges and barriers to inclusive education in different areas of teacher education and offer related strategies and solutions for effective advocacy towards more inclusive practices. The series begins with this introductory guide. It provides an overview of inclusive teacher education and of what advocacy means in this context. It also provides an introduction to the topics covered in the four other guides in the series. These are ‘Policy’, ‘Curriculum’, ‘Materials’, and ‘Methodology’.Advocacy Guide 4: Materials – changing the materials that are used to support teaching and learning within teacher education. Materials refer to the resources (e.g. textbooks) which are used in pre-service teacher education institutions. Teacher education utilizes a wide range of materials, including those used by teacher educators as an aid to teaching, and those used by student teachers as an aid to learning. 
Teacher Policy Development Guide Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UNESCO | International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030 Countries will need to have a broad perspective on teacher issues in order to meet Sustainable Development Goal 4 and address the provisions on Teachers in the Incheon Declaration with the Framework for Action of Education 2030. A system to orient the elaboration and/or review of national teacher policies will be a useful tool. The International Teacher Task Force builds on its comparative advantage as a global multiple-stakeholder alliance joining hands to address the global teacher challenges, to offer the present Teacher Policy Development Guide.Users will find relevant definitions of concepts, description of the different dimensions of teacher issues and how they correlate, and suggestions of phases in the process of developing a national teacher policy. Of utmost importance is the involvement of all stakeholders, especially the teachers, in the process. 
EIU Best Practices Series No. 4: Implementation of Civic Approach for Development of Positive School Environment and a Culture of Peace Year of publication: 2006 Corporate author: APCEIU This monograph is one of APCEIU's EIU Best Practices Series, which aims to encourage educators, scholars, and activists to implement and share local initiatives on EIU. The Series No.4 is an experimental research conducted by the Information and Research Center to promote culture of peace and teaching and learning outcomes that support positive development of school environment. Three pilot schools in Kazakhstan were analyzed upon implementation of teacher training workshops, instructional materials, and programs in civic and human rights education. 
EIU Best Practices Series No. 39: Building School Capacity for Global Citizenship Education Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: APCEIU This monograph is one of APCEIU's EIU Best Practices Series, which aims to encourage educators, scholars, and activists to implement and share local initiatives on EIU. The Series No.39 introduces the Training of Trainers (TOT) program, a workshop for teachers to better incorporate GCED/EIU concepts into respective curriculum and school environment. Upon participating in the APCEIU training workshop, Mr. Yeshi Dorji from Dungtse Middle Secondary School in Bhutan sought to create a forum in which teachers and school officials can learn to incorporate GCED. Such exemplary initiative not only enhances capacity building of educators in the school, but also has potential to have larger impact in the local and regional communities. 
EIU Best Practices Series No. 40: Global Citizenship Education Capacity Building Initiative Year of publication: 2015 Author: Eretia Monite Corporate author: APCEIU This monograph is one of APCEIU's EIU Best Practices Series, which aims to encourage educators, scholars, and activists to implement and share local initiatives on EIU. The Series No. 40 introduces a successful hosting of workshop on GCED in Kiribati. Considered the first of its kind in Kiribati, the workshop brought together education officers and teachers to learn about emerging concept of GCED and EIU and means for implementation. The exemplary workshop involving fieldtrips and seminars has created a wave of learning opportunities for key stakeholders at all levels, paving way to put GCED into practice. 
EIU Best Practices Series No. 20: Education for International Understanding through In-service Training: Uzbekistan Experience Year of publication: 2010 Author: Mukhamadjon Aliyev Corporate author: APCEIU This monograph is one of APCEIU's EIU Best Practices Series, which aims to encourage educators, scholars, and activists to implement and share local initiatives on EIU. The Series No.20 introduces EIU projects undertaken by the Avloni In-Service Teacher Training Institute in Uzbekistan. The programme integrates EIU concepts into the public education through in-service training programs, promotes EIU concepts in different subjects and projects, and broadcasts good practices in the field of global citizenship education nationwide. Although it is still in the process of improvement, the programme is expected to raise awareness of EIU and empower education managers, principals and teachers in Uzbekistan. 
Promoting inclusive teacher education: policy Year of publication: 2013 Author: Ian Kaplan | Ingrid Lewis Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok ‘Promoting Inclusive Teacher Education’ is a series of five advocacy guides. The guides discuss challenges and barriers to inclusive education in different areas of teacher education and offer related strategies and solutions for effective advocacy towards more inclusive practices. The series begins with this introductory guide. It provides an overview of inclusive teacher education and of what advocacy means in this context. It also provides an introduction to the topics covered in the four other guides in the series. These are ‘Policy’, ‘Curriculum’, ‘Materials’, and ‘Methodology’.Advocacy Guide 2: Policy – raising awareness of existing policies for inclusive education and changing/adapting policies at different levels in the education system (e.g. at the ministry, teacher education institution and school levels). Policy refers mainly to the guiding rules, laws and principles of education at the national level and within teacher education institutions. Policy guides the practices of individuals, groups and institutions on various inclusive education issues. 
Promoting inclusive teacher education: curriculum Year of publication: 2013 Author: Ian Kaplan | Ingrid Lewis Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok ‘Promoting Inclusive Teacher Education’ is a series of five advocacy guides. The guides discuss challenges and barriers to inclusive education in different areas of teacher education and offer related strategies and solutions for effective advocacy towards more inclusive practices. The series begins with this introductory guide. It provides an overview of inclusive teacher education and of what advocacy means in this context. It also provides an introduction to the topics covered in the four other guides in the series. These are ‘Policy’, ‘Curriculum’, ‘Materials’, and ‘Methodology’.Advocacy Guide 3: Curriculum – changing the overall organization and sequencing of teacher education. Curriculum refers to the overall courses of study at pre-service teacher education institutions. A curriculum is a way of organizing and sequencing learning experiences with the aim of achieving specified learning outcomes. It guides what will be learned, and why, and how this learning is facilitated. The curriculum reflects connections between society, politics and schools/teachers, so the development of inclusive curricula reflects 2 ADVOCACY GUIDE 1 3 a desire to develop an equitable, non-discriminatory society1 through attention to the overall structuring of teaching and learning within teacher education. 
Minding Our Minds during COVID-19: Helping School Going Children Manage Their Mental Health Year of publication: 2020 Author: Huma Masood | Cynthia Saxena Corporate author: UNESCO New Delhi This guide provides an outline of how teachers and parents can address the issue of mental health amongst students. The sections in this guide cover basic information about coronavirus, explanation of anxiety in school going children, as well as ways by which students can take care of their mental health during this crisis. The sub-sections of the guide comprise guidelines outlining the duties and responsibilities that teachers and parents/ caregivers must follow to ensure students’ mental health is not negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, sub-sections of the guide provide activities and exercises that teachers and parents can utilize to engage children with to ensure their wellbeing during these difficult times.