The new advocacy toolkit for teachers, produced jointly by the EFA Global Monitoring Report, the International Task Force on Teachers for Education for All and Education International aims at helping teachers use evidence based recommendations for their advocacy.
Teachers, better than anyone, know the challenges of teaching large classrooms and the knock-on effects of not having adequate training. The toolkit, launched on World Teachers Day, offers resources and practical steps for teachers to get involved in campaigning with their policy makers for a quality education. It contains statistics and figures on and around teaching and learning – for instance, that 250 million children are out of school, and 3.3 million more teachers are needed by 2030.
“Policy makers must support teachers to end the learning crisis”, the toolkit states. Through recruitment, training, allocation and retention, policy should be shaped in a way that it creates a virtuous circle in which teachers have a voice when it comes to shaping education systems. “Teachers and unions should be involved in finding a solution” the booklet highlights.
Alongside figures and key messages, the toolkit also provides examples of best practices from around the world, as well as evidence that these practices have resulted in positive outcomes. A special chapter on practical steps to advocate for change closes the report.
Complementing this publication, the EFA GMR also launched an online questionnaire for teachers around the world to help provide insight on some of the key themes appearing in the EFA GMR 2015 due out next year.
- The Advocacy Toolkit for Teachers to Provide a Quality Education can be found here.
- On Twitter, it is linked to the hashtag #teachlearn.