Help countries measure effective teaching practices

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About Teach Primary

THE Teach The primary observation tool in the capture of educational practices that support learning quality, cognitive and socio-emotional skills.

• Teach Primary Holistically measure what is happening in class. He does so considering the time devoted to learning as well as the quality of teaching practices. Above all, the tool captures teaching practices that contribute to the cognitive skills of students as well as their socio-emotional skills.
• Teach Primary has a transverse accent on inclusion. The tool provides a common language to encourage inclusive and reactive education which facilitates the development of the whole child.
• Teach The primary is adaptable to different contexts. The tool is designed to be modular, which allows users to create additional elements that are relevant to the local program and the standards of effective teaching practices, or to exclude unrelevant elements. Teach Also includes the use of local video sequences to train observers, which guarantees that the tool is contextualized and anchored in the local framework.
• Teach Primary comes with A series of resources To support its use. These are intended to provide support at each stage of the implementation of the tool, including initial conversations with relevant stakeholders, training of observers, the use of the tool to collect data in the field, cleaning and analysis of data and production and sharing results.
• Teach Primary And its additional resource toolbox is free.

Teach The primary has undergone a rigorous development and validation process over a period of two years to ensure that the tool captures the teaching practices associated with student learning and that it met the appropriate psychometric criteria of reliability and validity. After the initial development and validation process, Teach The primary was launched in 2019.

Since then, more than 500 enumerators in more than 30 countries have been trained on the tool. More than 92% of all enumerators trained have exceeded the Teach Primary certification examination. Other analyzes have shown that less than 6.2% of the variation of Teach Primary scores are due to the effects of enumerators. The high reliability of the tool can be credited with structured training equipment, intense and practical training and the use of local videos to train local observers.

What is Teach Primary measure?

Teach Primary Capture:

• The time that teachers spend to learn and the extent to which students are in task,
• The quality of teaching practices that help develop the socio-emotion of students And cognitive skills, and
• Other aspects of the learning environment such as accessibility of the physical environment, including the configuration of the class and the documents available.

THE Teach Primary framework

As part of Time component on the taskthree instantaneous From 1 to 10 seconds are used to record both the teacher's actions and the number of students who are in the task throughout the observation.

THE Component of the quality of teaching practices is organized in three main areas: class culture, teaching and socio-emotional skills. These areas have nine corresponding elements which point to around twenty-eight behaviors. The behaviors are characterized as weak, medium or high, on the basis of the evidence collected during the observation. These behavior scores are translated into a 5 -point scale which quantifies the education practices captured in a series of two 15 -minute course observations.

• Class culture: The teacher creates a culture conducive to learning. The objective here is not on the teacher's correction of the negative behaviors of the students, but rather the extent to which the teacher creates a favorable learning environment and sets Positive behavioral expectations.
• Instruction: The teacher teaches in a way that deepens students' understanding and encourages critical thinking and analysis. The emphasis here is not on teaching methods specific to content, but rather the extent to which the teacher Facilitates the lesson,, Check understandingprovides backand encourages students to Think critically.
• Socio-emotional skills: The teacher promotes the socio-emotional skills that encourage students to succeed inside and outside the class. To develop the social and emotional skills of students, the teacher instill autonomypromotes perseveranceand promotes Social and collaborative skills.
• Through the quality of teaching practices, Teach Primary catches Inclusive teaching practices which are reactive and which facilitate the development of all children.

Finally, Teach Primary is accompanied by a check-list Evaluate additional aspects related to the quality of education, including accessibility of the physical environment, which can be used with the class observation tool.

How can Teach Primary be used?

Teach The primary can achieve different objectives depending on the country's context and the project objectives. First of all, the tool can be used as a System diagnosiswhich allows governments to obtain a clear snapshot from the current state of educational practices and the quality of teaching in classrooms. In this title, Teach Primary can be used as a Monitoring and evaluation tool (M&E) Evaluate the results of a specific education policy or program that targets teachers' practices, such as the deployment of a new program or a new educational model. The tool can also be integrated into a professional development system of teachers to help identify the strengths and weaknesses of teachers and To provide targeted support to teachers.

Teach The primary can be implemented by any user hoping to capture the quality of educational practices in a specific context. Although the tool is free access, there are several protocols that the team recommends that stakeholders follow to ensure that people chosen to make class observations make it reliably. In addition to recommendations concerning reliability, Teach The team provides guidelines for supplying local videos for training, training of local implementators and observers on the tool, high quality data collection and results analysis.

This blog describes How to implement Teach Primary in your environment and how Teach Can be used to support teachers and improve their teaching practices and provides a roadmap at Additional resources.

Additional blogs

Teach Primary 1^st (2019) and 2^ND (2021) edition

In 2020 and 2021, Teach The primary has undergone a revision process to strengthen how the tool has measured inclusive teaching practices. Inclusive teaching practices are defined as those who create increased opportunities For all children To access learning. The vision of inclusion in Teach is anchored in the Universal Design for Learning framework (UDL) and considers additional inclusion dimensions, including the physical environment. The second edition of Teach The primary (2021) reflects some important adjustments of the original version published in 2019.

THE Teach The main tool, the manual of the observer and the brief shared at the top of this page present on 2^ND Edition of the tool. For more advice on the differences between the two editions of the tool, please consult This resource. For reference, please find the Teach Primary 1^st Edition tool and complementary materials here.