ISTF Joins UNESCO’s Global Education Coalition

Our mission: make a direct impact on science teacher training in countries facing socioeconomic challenges.

ISTF, 12 de enero de 2023

The International Science Teaching Foundation (ISTF) has joined the Global Education Coalition (GEC), a multilateral platform led by UNESCO to ensure the continuity and transformation of education in countries with limited resources. Active in 112 countries, the Coalition has launched 233 projects, reaching more than 400 million students and
12 million teachers.

The Global Education Coalition was launched in 2020 in response to the educational crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Five years on, its mission has evolved, but it continues to prioritize crisis response and the resilience of educators and learners as key to advancing Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4).

Today, the Coalition brings together more than 200 partners, including the ISTF, all committed to ensuring inclusive, equitable, and quality education and to promoting lifelong learning opportunities for teachers.

As part of its strategic mission, the International Science Teaching Foundation reaffirms its commitment to improving STEM education worldwide. It will do so by working in direct collaboration with the Global Education Coalition and offering science, technology, engineering, and mathematics training for secondary school teachers in vulnerable communities.

The training provided by ISTF in these settings will focus on narrowing the digital divide and ensuring access to high-quality educational resources designed in line with the latest findings in cognitive and learning sciences.

ISTF will contribute to the Coalition’s goals through:

• training programs for teachers in disadvantaged areas based on active, inquiry-driven teaching methods,
• high-quality digital science resources that can be adapted to low-connectivity settings, used offline, or printed,
• evidence-based strategies and training tools that empower future teacher trainers within local education communities.