Acquiring Socio-emotional Skills through Digital Badge-Driven Learning: A Case Study of Teachers Experiences in Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago
This case study aims to examine how Barbadian and Trinbagonian teachers experienced socio-emotional skill learning through a digital badge-driven learning process and what were teachers perceptions on how socio-emotional skill training benefitted teaching and learning. The studys focus is on the teachers reported professional development experiences. Participants (n148) in this study were from pre-primary, primary, and secondary schools.
Acquiring Socio-emotional Skills through Digital Badge-Driven Learning: A Case Study of Teachers Experiences in Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago
This case study aims to examine how Barbadian and Trinbagonian teachers experienced socio-emotional skill learning through a digital badge-driven learning process and what were teachers perceptions on how socio-emotional skill training benefitted teaching and learning. The studys focus is on the teachers reported professional development experiences. Participants (n148) in this study were from pre-primary, primary, and secondary schools.
Cash and Counseling: Self-directed home and community long-term care
Cash and counseling provides an allowance that recipients can use to purchase home- and community-based long-term care services instead of receiving them from an agency. This scheme gives beneficiaries the choice and independence to self-direct the implementation of their preferred long-term care plan, using an assigned budget, under the supervision of a counselor. One feature of this program is that recipients can choose between hiring a professional or a family member as a caregiver.
Cash and Counseling: Self-directed home and community long-term care
Cash and counseling provides an allowance that recipients can use to purchase home- and community-based long-term care services instead of receiving them from an agency. This scheme gives beneficiaries the choice and independence to self-direct the implementation of their preferred long-term care plan, using an assigned budget, under the supervision of a counselor. One feature of this program is that recipients can choose between hiring a professional or a family member as a caregiver.
Regulatory Framework for Telemedicine: Current status and Next Steps
This document addresses each aspect of the process of digital transformation of health, shares evidence, practices and concrete recommendations, identifies the set of actors that can and should participate and outlines the practical elements necessary for each country to build this crucial trajectory.
Meister High Schools: The South Korean Model to revitalize technical and vocational education
Like in other countries, South Korea’s traditional technical and vocational schools have been struggling to attract prospective students due to concerns about the lack of guarantee for decent jobs and career stability after graduation. Students often have difficulty finding a job immediately after graduation and are often poorly treated by companies.
Reading As a Means to Improve the Standard of Living
Pinocchio had it clear: “(…) at school, I want to learn to read immediately. Then tomorrow, I will learn to write, and the next day I will learn to count. Later, with my skill, I will earn a lot of money.” These words of Carlo Collodi (1882) are still relevant today as we seek to promote a job creation agenda that guarantees the essential components of recovery and transformative growth in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Deep dive Social Registry
This webinar aims to disseminate the main findings and results of the deep dive workshop on social registers to a much wider audience in the region.
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Education Outcomes in Belize
The COVID-19 pandemic brought school systems to a halt across the globe. In Belize, remote learning was challenging owing to limited access to educational technologies and lack of familiarity with remote learning among teachers. This study draws on national standardized exams and specific achievement testing to assess pandemic-related learning losses at the primary education level. Based on administrative data, the study also analyzes changes in student enrollment, dropout rates, and grade repetition at the primary and secondary levels.