Education Workforce Initiative

  • P Project/Program

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Key Information

Through the Education Workforce Initiative (EWI), the Commission is working with partners to rethink the education workforce. This new research program is identifying innovative ways teachers, support staff, district leaders, and others can equip students with adaptable skills for the 21st century. Drawing on concrete examples of how successful education workforce reform and innovation have been implemented across the globe, EWI is bringing fresh thinking to the education workforce to ensure the right teams and roles at school and district level – teachers, support personnel, school and district leaders – are in place for inclusive, quality education. EWI’s flagship report, Transforming the Education Workforce: Learning Teams for a Learning Generation draws on research and evidence to propose new ways to approach workforce design and implementation, including the use of technology. A High-level Steering Group of international experts, chaired by Commissioner and former South Korean Minister of Education Ju Ho Lee, oversees this initiative. With their guidance, the Commission published an Education Workforce Report with concrete policy recommendations in 2020. The report will focus on the following areas in primary and secondary education: re-envisioning the education workforce to ensure the right roles are in place for inclusive and quality education, generating relevant skills for the 21st Century, exploring how teachers, support staff, district leaders, and others an ensure that students, especially those in marginalized groups are prepared for the modern workforce, strengthening the current and future education workforce to improve recruitment, retention, and professional development, and supporting educators so they can fully realize the potential of technology to enable open, adaptive personalizes and distance learning.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Quality

  • School quality
  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

Not applicable or unknown


Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Teachers - female, Teachers - male

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Population of interest is not school-aged

School Level

  • N/A

Other populations reached

  • School administrators

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Educational Technology

  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning

Policy/legal environment

  • System-wide review and reform

School-related gender-based violence

  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)

Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown