COVID-19 Responses

The COVID-19 crisis is one of the biggest disruptions of education the world has faced in recent history, affecting nearly 1.5 billion students and 63 million primary and secondary school teachers. This number is predicted to rise.

The International community is mobilising to provide resources to education systems from the national to the global level. Below is a non-exhaustive list of information, recommendations and resources put together by the Teacher Task Force members.

We will continue to update it with relevant information.

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Call for Action on Teachers

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27.03.2020

Teacher Task Force calls to support 63 million teachers touched by the COVID-19 crisis

Around 63 million primary and secondary teachers around the world are affected by school closures in 165 countries due to the...

Members' resources

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19.03.2020

Responses to COVID-19 education disruption

At the time of writing this article, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic affecting the world has led to nationwide school...

#TeachersVoices

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07.05.2020

Online teaching during the COVID-19 crisis

I have been a physics teacher in secondary school (grades 9-12) for twenty-five years, and during that time have always been
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06.05.2020

How are we working with students and colleagues to continue providing education despite the crisis?

They say change is the only constant in your life but who would have expected the change to be so drastic that it questions
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04.05.2020

Teaching through COVID-19 in South Africa - #TeachersVoices

Your experience as a teacher using distance teaching / learning tools and platforms? Before Covid 19, I used Skype in the
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30.04.2020

‘Zooming’ in on learning during Covid-19 - #TeachersVoices

My name is Anne-Fleur Lurvink and I am a teacher at Lyceum Kralingen, a secondary school in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. I
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10.04.2020

Helping teens cope under COVID-19 through the Arts - #TeachersVoices

My name is Estella. I teach secondary English and Theatre Arts, ages 14 to 18, in South Los Angeles, California (U.S.) and
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08.04.2020

Teledidattica - Distance teaching in the time of the Covid-19 - #TeachersVoices

My name is Barbara. I am a primary school teacher in Rome, Italy, at the Institute Padre Semeria– Principe di Piemonte, one
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06.04.2020

Totally Connected in Complete Isolation - #TeachersVoices

I'm Hannah Grieves and I’ve been teaching spoken and written English to first- and second-year University students at the
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31.03.2020

Holding on: Teaching in the time of Covid19 - #TeachersVoices

My name is Michelle, I live in Bangkok, Thailand.I teach Grade 10 English Language Acquisition and co-teach Grade 7
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25.03.2020

Teachers' voices - Call for contribution

Highlighting the teachers providing education through the COVID-19 crisis The COVID-19 crisis is one of the biggest