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As Covid-19 continues to rage on, teachers have found that online teaching is the safest way to deliver lessons but is it effective?
Large budgets, funds, and grants are invested every year in education. Nevertheless, literacy rates in the world’s remotest communities are decreasing every year. We need to collectively rethink and re-evaluate the future of education.
The unprecedented challenges in 2020 have emphasized the importance of a teacher’s role in society. Sadly, teachers in the United States continue to be underpaid having a profound impact on student’s performance.
The COVID-19 has become an obstruction to millions of students’ access to education across the globe. During this time, it is crucial to turn our gaze to the importance of literacy.
Reading is an essential skill that every child should develop as early as possible. Unfortunately, some children struggle to hone their reading skills. Children can easily pick up interest in reading if their teacher is committed to identifying their reading needs. To read, kids need motivation.
Building positive relationships with learners can be easy in person but now educators face a new challenge: how can they build rapport and engage learners within a digital learning space?
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Learn more about the impact of school-closures due to COVID-19 on students in Nigeria who do not have access to computers and other devices to continue learning remotely.
Education is a privilege that is not accessible to all. Instead, the reality for many Colombians is survival. The torture that is seen daily is unimaginable, leaving many families and children very few options in life. Literacy could be the road to freedom.
The less that students have to guess what they are expected to do, the more brain power they can spend on creative and critical thinking. As a teacher, one simple strategy has made a world of difference to my lessons by demystifying literacy tasks: the checklist.
The World Literacy Foundation is a platform that focuses on ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to strive and succeed through literacy. Volunteering is one of the many ways to help address illiteracy, and many programs are available to provide the tools for change.