The MESH International Advisory Council (https://www.meshguides.org/home/international-advisory-board/) is continuing to meet weekly during the coronavirus crisis to share knowledge about  supporting learning during school closures in the different UN regions.   We are publishing reviews of evidence and our recommendations for managing crises for schooling now and in the future: see references below. MESH Member organisations are conducting surveys of teachers’ experiences and recommendations, on use and access to technology and other related issues. In time, survey findings will be published on the MESHGuides site and in professional journals. References to Advisory Board papers: Blamires, M. (April 2020) COVID-19 SUPPORT: Psycho Social Skills, Signs and Gestures toRead More →

MESHGuide authors and associates are creating podcasts with voicEd teachers’ radio.

voicEd is a web radio station based in Canada and is a MESH partner. (See voicEd.ca for a wide range of podcasts on educational matters.

OECD TALIS research shows that no country is managing to keep teachers up-to-date in subject and pedagogic knowledge. Digital tools allow new solutions to intractable problems. The report from the Global Teacher Education Knowledge Mobilisation Summits, held in 2016/7 outlines a low cost ‘marginal gains’ strategy and Knowledge Management system for the education sector to resolve the problem of access to all, to the latest knowledge. All educators and organisations can contribute so collectively we can achieve UNESCO SDG 4 . The MESH system was presented at the UNESCO/ Teacher Task Force conference in Lome, Togo, September 2017 and as a result worldwide, voluntary partnershipsRead More →

VSO and MESH working together Extract from VSO publication: “We have embarked on a new partnership with MESH guides to support our Education in Emergencies work in Bangladesh. There are hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugee children living in camps in Bangladesh. They have experienced violence and ongoing trauma in some of the most crucial years of their lives. Yet most still lack safe spaces to learn and play. Together, we ae rolling out a home based early childhood care and education in emergencies programme (ECCE). This works with children aged 3-5 years. VSO has brought together leading education specialists to create an open-source guideRead More →