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- This paper reviews recent research carried out on studies of the brain (neuroscience) in relation to the biological basis for learning (educational neurosciences). It examines the promise of educational neurosciences, synaptogenesis and neural plasticity, the problem of mouse-based education, dyslexia, mathematics and mirrors in the brain and functional localization on Sukhumvit Road. This paper was published by UNESCO in 2013.
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- Ilkka Tuomi
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unescobkk.org/education/news/article/educational-neurosciences-more-problems-than-promise-education-policy-research-series-discussion/
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- This paper provides an overview of the current status of secondary education in the Asia-Pacific region with insights on countries' policies and experiences relating to financing secondary education including public expenditure, sources of funding, teacher salaries, how free is secondary education, private tutoring, technical and vocational education, aid for secondary education and public-private partnerships. It also discusses related challenges such as decentralization in education, formula funding, mobilisation of additional resources and targeted support to the disadvantaged. This paper was published by UNESCO in 2013.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unescobkk.org/resources/e-library/publications/article/financing-of-secondary-education-in-the-asia-pacific-region-synthesis-paper-education-policy-resea/
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- This report reviews and analyzes key educational issues in the areas of education policy and management frameworks, secondary education and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) +6 countries and highlights how the systems can be improved and how educational disparities across the countries can be reduced. This report was published by UNESCO in 2014.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unescobkk.org/resources/e-library/publications/article/education-systems-in-asean-6-countries-a-comparative-analysis-of-selected-educational-issues-educa/
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- This booklet explains the principles that encourage children to learn including motivational beliefs, unfavourable motivational beliefs impede learning, favourable motivational beliefs facilitate learning, students' beliefs about goal orientation, different beliefs about effort affect learning intentions, goal-setting and appraisal, striving for goals and willpower and keeping multiple goals in harmony.
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- Monique Boekaerts
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac10e.pdf
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- This booklet discusses the principles behind teaching the social-emotional skills that students need to succeed in school and life including learning requires caring, teach everyday life-skills, link social-emotional instruction to other school services, use goal-setting to focus instruction, use varied instructional procedures, promote community service to build empathy, involve parents, build social-emotional skills gradually and systematically, prepare and support staff well and evaluate what you do.
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- Maurice J. Elias
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac11e.pdf
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- This booklet outline the practices of reading development and instruction including oral language, phonological and phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, prior knowledge, comprehension, motivation and purpose, integrated reading and writing, texts, assessment, cultural factors and practice.
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- Elizabeth S. Pang; Angaluki Muaka; Elizabeth B. Bernhardt; Michael L. Kamil
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac12e.pdf
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- This booklet provides guidance on how to teach science effectively including teaching as a purposeful means to an end, core scientific ideas, deep scientific understanding, complexity of learning, active construction of scientific knowledge, science content and students' interests, expectations for learning and students' anxieties and conflicts.
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- John R. Staver
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/Practice_17.pdf
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- This booklet outlines the principles for teacher professional learning and development that has a positive impact on student outcomes including focus on valued student outcomes, worthwhile content, integration of knowledge and skills, assessment for professional inquiry, multiple opportunities to learn and apply information, approaches responsive to learning processes, opportunities to process new learning with others, knowledgeable expertise, active leadership and maintaining momentum.
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- Helen Timperley
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_18.pdf
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- This booklet provides guidance on how to teach mathematics effectively including an ethic of care, arranging for learning, building on students' thinking, worthwhile mathematical tasks, making connections, assessment for learning, mathematical communication, mathematical language, tools and representations and teacher knowledge.
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- Glenda Anthony; Margaret Walshaw
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_19.pdf
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- This booklet provides an introduction to the principles of effective teaching including a supportive classroom climate, opportunity to learn, curricular alignment, establishing learning orientations, coherent content, thoughtful discourse, practice and application activities, scaffolding students' task engagement, strategy teaching, co-operative learning, goal-oriented assessment and achievement expectations.
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- Jere Brophy
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac01e.pdf
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- This booklet offers practical guidance on how to teach other languages including characteristics of learners of other languages, learning another language is a process, designing courses for learning other languages, designing and organizing classroom tasks, reading and vocabulary learning in other languages, writing and extended discourse, error correction and feedback in language learning, technology and the teaching of other languages, assessment and professional development for teachers of other languages.
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- Elizabeth B. Bernhardt
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_20.pdf
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- This booklet presents the ten research-based principles of instruction and suggestions for classroom practice including daily review, present new material using small steps, ask questions, provide models, guide student practice, check for student understanding, obtain a high success rate, provide scaffolds for difficult tasks, independent practice and weekly and monthly review.
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- Barak Rosenshine
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_21.pdf
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- This booklet provides guidance on teaching social sciences (including the subjects of social studies, history, geography, economics and classical studies) to improve student outcomes including alignment: identifying prior knowledge, aligning teaching to desired outcomes, providing opportunities to revisit learning; connection: drawing on relevant content, ensuring inclusive content, establishing productive learning relationships, promoting dialogue, sharing power with students; interest: maximizing student interest, satisfying diverse motivational needs, using a variety of activities; and teaching as inquiry.
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- Claire Sinnema; Graeme Aitken
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_23.pdf
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- This booklet discusses the effects that emotions have on students' learning and achievement, including understanding emotions, individual and cultural differences, positive emotions and learning, negative emotions and learning, self-confidence, task values and emotions, emotion regulation, classroom instruction and teacher emotions, goal structures and achievement standards, test-taking and feedback and families, peers and school reform.
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- Reinhard Pekrun
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_24eng.pdf
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- This booklet examines how educational practice can be used to encourage creative thinking including how creativity can be promoted through all school subjects, influence creative thinking through well-designed learning spaces, increase the use of open-ended questions, engage learners in meaningful and authentic activities, collaboration enhances creativity, make efficient use of educational technologies, allow for mistakes and sensible risk-taking and learning how to assess and reward creativity.
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- Panagiotis Kampylis; Eleni Berki
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_25eng.pdf
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- This booklet provides guidance on what parents can do to help their children do well in school including the curriculum of the home, parent/child relationship, routine of family life, family expectations and supervision, homework, school/home communication, parental involvement, parent education, family/school relationships and families and communities.
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- Sam Redding
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac02e.pdf
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- This booklet discusses briefly a range of educational practices that promote learning including parent involvement, graded homework, aligned time on task, direct teaching, advance organizers, the teaching of learning strategies, tutoring, mastery learning, co-operative learning and adaptive education.
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- Herbert J. Walberg; Susan J. Paik
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac03e.pdf
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- This booklet discusses strategies and practices for improving mathematics instruction including the opportunity to learn, focus on meaning, learning new concepts and skills while solving problems, opportunities for both invention and practice, openness to student solution methods and student interaction, small-group learning, whole-class discussion, number sense, concrete materials and students' use of calculators.
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- Douglas A. Grouws; Kristin J. Cebulla
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac04e.pdf
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- This booklet discusses the principles for effective tutoring including real-life goals, question and prompt, check and correct errors, discuss and praise, reading: support and review, writing: map and edit, mathematics: make it real and summarize, recruit and match partners, provide training and materials and monitor and give feedback.
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- Keith Topping
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac05e.pdf
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- This booklet highlights the importance of providing effective education for children on HIV and AIDS to halt the spread of the infection including professional trained and actively involved educators, establish partnerships, utilize non-conventional methods of teaching, introduce open communication, innovative teaching sessions, gender-specific approaches, dealing with culturally sensitive content, the value of peer-based support, skill-based education and monitoring and evaluation.
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- Inon I. Schenker; Jenny M. Nyirenda
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac09e.pdf
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- This report discusses the importance of gender equality, how far gender equality in education has developed, obstacles to its progress, the reasons for focusing on secondary education and literacy for girls and women, examples of improving education for girls and women and how to build environments for gender-sensitive and gender-responsive education. Case studies from Bangladesh, Indonesia, China, Myanmar, Cambodia, India are included. This report was published by UNESCO in 2012.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/resources/online-materials/single-view/news/from_access_to_equality_empowering_girls_and_women_through_literacy_and_secondary_education/#.Uzvdk6hkQ1I
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- This report discusses the state of primary education in India. While access to primary education has been widened considerably, learning outcomes have not improved as much as expected. The report looks at why this is the case, focusing on the quality and quantity of teacher presence and interaction with students. It highlights factors that have an impact on teacher and student availability and goes on to make suggestions for improving the situation. This report was published in 2014 by the World Bank.
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- Deepa Sankar; Toby Linden
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/17800
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- This guide for teachers and those who train teachers discusses the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) within teaching and learning, including ICT in the world beyond the classroom, digital skills and modes of learning, ICT adoption and use, e-learning, assessing e-learning, integrating and implementing ICT, e-resources for learning, blended learning with Web 2.0 tools, web tools for teachers and changing learning environments. This guide was published by UNESCO in 2010.
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- Jonathan Anderson
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/publications-and-communication-materials/publications/full-list/ict-transforming-education-a-regional-guide/
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- This report evaluates the success of three interventions designed to widen access to early childhood development services in Cambodia. The three projects involved include: formal preschools, community preschools and home-based services. It describes the challenges that these three projects faced and discusses the lessons learnt from their respective successes and failures. This report was published by the World Bank in 2013.
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- Adrien Bouguen; Deon Filmer; Karen Macours; Sophie Naudeau
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/15900
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- This paper assesses whether the Indonesia Early Childhood Education and Development project had an impact on early achievement gaps as measured by a range of child development outcomes and enrolment using data collected in 2009 and 2010 on approximately 3,000 four-year-old children residing in villages across Indonesia. This paper was published by WorldBank in 2014.
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- Haeil Jung; Amer Hasan
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/18340