Challenge Analysis

Legislative/Policy context

Evidence-Based Transformative Recommendations

Teacher Agency and Action

100

This is the job done by teachers every day to help students learn. 

What is teaching? 

100

Laws about schools often say children must go to ____.  

What is school?

100

To help children learn to read and do basic math early, teachers use tests called _______to find what students need

What is diagnostic assessment? 

100

A teacher gives students different activities for different learning styles. This practice is called ____ .

What is differentiated instruction?

200

When many teachers leave a country to work somewhere else.

What is migration?

200

The group that checks and registers teachers and can move them between schools is often called a ____.

What is the Teaching Service Commission/TSC/education authority?

200

Teaching that respects students’ home languages and cultures is called ______. 

What is culturally responsive pedagogy/teaching?

200

When teachers learn new skills together in workshops, it is called ____.

What is professional devlopment?

300

Big classes with many students can make teachers very tire d. This tiredness from too much work is called______,

What is burnout?

300

Some laws promise free and required schooling for young children. That promise is called ____. 

What is universal education? 

300

Schools that share leadership and let teachers help make decisions use a model called _________.

What is Distributed Leadership?

300

Asking local shops or parents to donate supplies to a classroom is an example of ________. 

What is community invovlement? 

400

If a school does not have enough teachers, students might get less of this important thing: 

What is quality education?

400

A rule that says who can be a teacher and where they can teach is part of a country’s _____. 

What is Education Act or education law?

400

Teaching about protecting the planet and helping communities prepare for storms is part of Education for _______.

What is sustainable development?

400

Using hands-on materials like blocks or counters to help students learn math is called using ______. 

What is manipulatives?