Project
Addressing students’ learning gaps to ensure quality learning for all children and prevent drop-out in Asia-Pacific
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated a pre-existing learning crisis in Asia-Pacific, with the result that many countries are now grappling with low learning achievements and high drop-out rates. To recover from the learning loss caused by the pandemic and address the broader learning crisis, Ministers of Education in the region have made a collective commitment through the Bangkok Statement 2022: toward an effective learning recovery for all and transforming education in Asia-Pacific to transform the current curriculum, assessment, and pedagogy with an emphasis on teachers’ capacity in identifying students’ learning needs and implementing differentiated learning.
In response to country-committed priority areas for tackling the learning crisis, the UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok (UNESCO Bangkok), with financial support from the Government of the Republic of Korea (Korea Funds-in-Trust), has initiated the project 'Addressing Students’ Learning Gaps to Ensure Quality Learning for All Children and Prevent Drop-Out in Asia Pacific.' UNESCO Bangkok will enhance Member States’ teachers’ capacity in two critical areas: 1) assessment for learning (formative and diagnostic assessment) and 2) differentiated learning pedagogies.
Objectives
The key objective of the project is to equip teachers and schools with the necessary competencies (knowledge, teaching skills, and assessment skills) to identify and address learning gaps and needs, expressly to provide all learners with the opportunity to learn and to prevent their dropout.
Key activities
- Develop a guideline on differentiated learning
- Develop and roll out hybrid training modules for in-service training on assessment for learning and differentiated learning pedagogies
- Support teacher education institutions (TEIs) to review and improve their curriculum on assessment for learning and differentiated learning
