Resources by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
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Educational practices - academic and social emotional learning
This booklet is about the social-emotional skills students need for success in school and in life. Social-emotional skills, or emotional intelligence, is the name given to the set of abilities that allows students to work with others, learn effectively, and serve essential roles in their families, communities and...
Educational practices - effective pedagogy in mathematics
This UNESCO publication draws on a wide range of research into pedagogical approaches that aim to engage learners and lead to desirable outcomes in mathematics. The report looks to deepen the understanding of educational practices that optimise opportunities for mathematics learners.
The report aims to...
Educational practices - improving achievement in mathematics
This UNESCO booklet summarizes the mathematics chapter from the 'Handbook of research on improving student achievement', published by the Educational Research Service.
The handbook highlights research on effective teaching and learning practices. The practices included reflect both emerging strategies and...
Educational practices - motivation to learn
This booklet is a synthesis of principles of motivation that have emerged from research into the effect of motivational practices ...
Educational practices - parents and learning
This booklet concerns what parents can do to help their children do well in school. As schools have been pressed to be more effective and more productive, out-of-school influences on academic learning have escalated in importance. Even where the school day and school year have been lengthened, the amount of time...
Educational practices - preventing behaviour problems
This booklet explains principles for preventing a large variety of youth problems ranging from discourtesy to serious life-threatening behaviour such as smoking, alcohol abuse and violence. Parents, educators and their professional colleagues and others face these problems within and outside schools. Although...
Educational practices - principles of instruction
This booklet is about the most effective methods of teaching and presents ten research-based principles of instruction. These principles come from three sources:
(a) research on how the brain acquires and uses new information;
(b) research on the classroom practices of those teachers whose...
Educational practices - Task teaching and learning -improving the quality of education for disadvantaged students
The purpose of this booklet is to describe the central role that tasks play (or, perhaps more accurately, should play) in school learning, particularly in efforts to improve the quality of education for economically disadvantaged children and youth.
This booklet offers a set of eight principles that, when...
Educational practices - teaching fractions
This research guide provides suggestions for teachers looking to improve fraction instruction in their classrooms or schools. The recommendations are based on scientific research, along with the expertise and experience of successful mathematics educators, and include a variety of classroom activities and teaching...