Equitable Remote Learning for All: Using multiple delivery channels to support ethnolinguistic minority children
As part of the Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group, UNESCO is hosting the third session of its regional webinar series. This webinar will focus on using multiple delivery channels to support ethnolinguistic minority children's remote learning. The webinar will begin with a brief review of the Guidance Note on Ensuring Inclusive Education for Ethnolinguistic Minority Children in the COVID-19 Era. Against this background, each panel speaker will provide examples of delivering remote learning that use various methods to minimize the effects of compounded disadvantages, such as remoteness, poverty, migration, and language barriers, that ethnolinguistic minority children face in maintaining their learning remotely and for returning to school.
Objectives
- To share context-specific strategies for effectively delivering quality and inclusive remote learning to ethnolinguistic minority children.
- To explore how remote learning can enhance and strengthen mother tongue-based multilingual education programmes during and after COVID-19.
- To catalyse multilateral engagement and cooperation in implementing MTB MLE programmes in the Asia-Pacific region.
Target Audience
The target audience for the webinar includes regional, national and international level education stakeholders (including both policymakers and implementers) interested in strategies for delivering remote learning to ethnolinguistic minority children for inclusive multilingual education programmes.
Working Language
English will be the working language of the webinar.
Date, Time and Format
Date: Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:50 pm (Bangkok time; GMT+7)
Format: Zoom
Registration
Registration is free and required in advance. Once you register, a unique join URL will be sent to your email. Click here to access the registration link.
Agenda
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Tuesday, 22 June 2021 Moderator: Francisco Benavides, Regional Education Advisor, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office |
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1:00pm - 1:10pm |
Welcome and Introduction from the Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group |
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1:10pm - 2:10pm |
Panel Speakers (15 mins each):
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2:10pm - 2:40pm |
Q&A and Discussion |
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2:40pm - 2:50pm |
Key Messages and Closing
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Resources
Presentation slides
- "Reaching Ethnic Minority Students during COVID-19 in Cambodia"
- "Smart Voice: A Digital Offline Learning Kit fur Students in Remote Areas without Internet Access"
- "M-Lugha: First Language First"
- "Digitalizing Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education Teacher Training"
The Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group (MLE WG) for more information on the MLE WG and the previous sessions of the regional webinar series.
For More Information
Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group Secretariat E-mail: ap.mlewg@gmail.com
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