Quality Teaching Anywhere is Hard and the Profession Deserves Much More Respect - Key Lessons from Covid 19
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Key Points:
• The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted existing disparities in education equity and inclusion, and governments need to prepare for potential future crises and school closures.
• The emergency shift to online learning provides an opportunity for lasting change toward achieving the SDG targets for inclusive and equitable education.
• Gender-responsive global education targets, domains, and assessment frameworks for equity and inclusion should be applied to online education.
• Guidelines for equitable online learning programs as well as all school programs must be established and communicated to ensure standard curriculum and teaching practices.
• UN and business response to the pandemic helped to extend access to education technology and generated many innovative examples of inclusive online education, but norms and standards for quality education for all must be established and technical cooperation for system strengthening and planning for more school closures-hybrid system.
Subheadings:
• Education Disparities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Open Policy Window and Opportunity for Lasting Change in Education Systems (emphasizing the need for inclusive online education)
• Applying Gender-Responsive Global Education Targets to Online Learning
• Establishing Guidelines for Equitable Online Learning Programs
• UN, Governments and Business Response to the Pandemic - Good Practices but More Action Needed to Ensure ‘ Systems’ level Resilience and Quality and Access
Examples of Strong but Mixed (Not systematic) Emergency Response:
• UNICEF's Learning Passport, launched in 2020, is used in 23 countries and reaches 2.2 million students to keep them learning during school closures.
• In 2019, global investments in education technology reached over US$18 billion, with projections to reach $350 billion by 2025.
· Governments around the world provided a swift reaction and generated many unique and innovative solutions for online access and quality to all (OECD 2020).
Conclusion - Way Forward:
To ensure access to quality education for all, good practices from the pandemic can be summated and shared, and guidelines for equitable online learning programs must be established and communicated to ensure standard curriculum and teaching practices. The principles of inclusive education, such as diversity, strength-based curriculum, online student engagement, agency, and voice, critical stakeholder engagement, and teacher commitment, knowledge, and practical skills, should be applied in the context of online education. Additionally, gender-responsive global education targets and assessment frameworks should be incorporated into online education assessments to measure equity and inclusion.
To achieve a more inclusive and equitable education system, UN humanitarian- and development-focused agencies, governments, and businesses must collaborate to establish norms and standards for quality education for all. Further research and projects to remove barriers to girls' online quality education, communication of online education delivery, and setting standards for online quality and access to education are suggested.
In conclusion, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of inclusive and equitable education, including online education, and the need for global action to address education disparities.
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By establishing and applying guidelines and incorporating gender-responsive global education targets and assessment frameworks into online education, we can create a more inclusive and equitable education system for all.
Principles for Inclusive Online Ed are:
Principle 1: Diversity in all classrooms including online enriches and strengthens education
There are two central questions:
How can online schools and teachers create welcoming and focused environments that include, motivate, and challenge all learners?
Do teachers have high expectations of learning, effort, and engagement for all their students online?
Inclusive online educators are those who draw on the knowledge and experiences of their students. They question their own beliefs about student learning. They are flexible and ready for a challenge. And most of all, they embrace diversity in their online classrooms.
Principle 2: A strength-based and personalized online curriculum
Strength-based approaches are a key principle of inclusive online education. They recognize that each student has inherent strengths and talents. These strengths and a student's specific needs should be central to curriculum planning and implementation, optimizing opportunities for teachers' and students' online learning.
Principle 3: Online student engagement, agency, and voice
Seeking students' perspectives ensures they contribute meaningfully to their online schooling and educational experience. The ability to have a voice influences both student participation and agency.
How do you make this authentic?
Facilitate multiple ways for young people to be heard online, regardless of their ability and gender;
Consider tools such as drawing, writing, talking, painting, photography, and videos to express agency;
Ask students, especially girls and women teachers as critical stakeholders, to identify indicators of an inclusive school and measure the school against them.
Principle 4: Engagement with all your critical stakeholders
An inclusive online education is one in which all students of all capabilities can grow and learn. Each student and parent should have access to accurate information on their online learning through ongoing formative and summative assessments of each student's progress. Over time, this approach creates a positive community perception of the online school and raises awareness about a positive online school culture.
Principle 5: Online inclusive teachers need commitment, knowledge, and practical skills
Good online teaching is good teaching for all, not just for some. Teaching in inclusive online classrooms requires teachers to have the 3Hs: the heart (commitment), the head (critical knowledge), and the hands (practical online teaching strategies).
Online teaching requires teachers to acquire critical knowledge and skills to teach all students online who differ in their gender, abilities, and learning styles. Online teaching does not require teachers to become superhuman. Still, it does need them to know about some of the most powerful evidence-based teaching strategies that engage all learners across the board:
An online teacher with the heart, head, and hands of an inclusive gender-responsive teacher will be effective for all learners, not just those who need additional support. A teacher with all three qualities must have adequate support from the school leadership team to use and sustain gender-responsive inclusive online ed practices.