Teacher professional development around the world: the gap between evidence and practice

This paper proposes a set of indicators—the In-Service Teacher Training Survey Instrument—to standardize reporting on teacher PD programs.

Assessment of Teacher Competencies in Crisis Contexts - Afghanistan

This resource is a self-administered tool that allows teachers to evaluate their feelings of self-efficacy, work-related stress, and self-care

Science of Teaching - Teacher Professional Development: Ongoing Teacher Support

The initiative's overall objective is to provide data, evidence, and innovation in order to improve foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

Structuring Effective 1-1 Support

This guide distills key takeaways from the literature and provides guidance on structural details of effective ongoing support to teachers.

Teacher’s Guide Diagnostic Tool Manual and Scoresheet

The Teacher’s Guide Diagnostic Tool is an instrument to assess the quality of Teacher’s Guides 1 in any subject in primary grades 1 through 4. The Tool assesses Teacher’s Guides based on two sets of c

Coach: Foundational Teaching Skills Guide

This guide is designed to help teachers develop their pedagogical skills in a step-by-step, supportive manner.

Coach: Helping Countries Accelerate Learning by Improving In-Service Teacher Professional Development

The World Bank’s Coach initiative aims to accelerate student learning by improving in-service teacher professional development (TPD)

Teach ECE: Helping Countries Track and Improve Teaching Quality in Early Childhood Education

Teach ECE is a free classroom observation tool that provides a window into one of the less explored and more important aspects of a child’s education: what goes on in the classroom.

Teach: Helping Countries Track and Improve Teaching Quality

Teach is a free classroom observation tool that provides a window into one of the less explored and more important aspects of a student’s education

From Schooling to Learning for All: Reorienting Curriculum and Targeting Instruction

The Save Our Future report provides a set of recommendations to tackle the learning crisis by reorienting curriculum and targeting instruction to the level of the child.

Investing in teacher capacity: The key to effective learning

This policy brief from UNICEF Innocenti's Data Must Speak research in Lao PDR provides evidence on the need for investing in teacher capacity as a key to improving student learning outcomes.

Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in primary schools

Time to Teach captures the voices of thousands of teachers and other education stakeholders to identify factors affecting their attendance and uses this evidence to inform teacher policies.

Teacher Training and Textbook Distribution Improve Early Grade Reading: Evidence from Papua and West Papua

A program that combines teacher training with textbook distribution in Indonesia improves vulnerable children's literacy outcomes.