UNESCO's Education For All Global Monitoring Report states children with disabilities are most excluded
The 'TEACHING AND LEARNING: Achieving quality for all' report highlights that children with disabilities, including autism, are more likely to face discrimination and social exclusion.
The report, which was released in January 2014, also raises awareness of the need to address the rights and needs of children with intellectual disabilities.
The report identifies four strategies to provide the best teachers to reach all children with a good quality education. These include:
- The right teachers must be selected to reflect the diversity of the children they will be teaching;
- Teachers must be trained to support the weakest learners, starting from the early grades;
- The best teachers should be allocated to the most challenging parts of a country in order to overcome learning inequalities;
- Governments must provide teachers with the right mix of incentives to encourage them to remain in the profession and to make sure all children are learning, regardless of their circumstances.
This report provides an update on progress that countries are making towards UNESCO's 'Education for all' global education goals.
This news came from Autism Europe and there is more here: http://www.autismeurope.org/publications/newsletter-subscribe/newsletter-56-2014/unesco-s-education-for-all-global-monitoring-report-states-children-with-disabilities-are-most-exclu.html
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