Join a special free webinar on Wednesday, June 19 at 10:00am EDT

The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) invite you to join a special numeracy webinar on  Wednesday June 19 at 10:00 am EDT. This webinar is a follow-up to the International Numeracy Conference held in Berlin in December 2012 hosted by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and GPE. The conference had created a stimulating environment for donors, multilaterals, non-governmental organizations and academics to discuss the opportunities and challenges for numeracy in the coming years.

In response to the positive feedback from the conference, GIZ is developing a new Numeracy Sector Program dedicated to promoting numeracy in pre-school and in early grades in the framework of the international education agenda. The webinar aims to pick up the energy generated in Berlin and to push forward the agenda of numeracy education internationally.

The webinar brings together partners working in the field of numeracy to share their experiences and future plans. As an introduction, the GIZ will present its new Numeracy Sector Program initiated by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in cooperation with the Global Partnership. This will be followed by comments and presentations from the World Bank, USAID, United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID), and JICA. For more details on the Numeracy Sector Program of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, please contact numeracy@giz.de.

Access the webinar through Adobe Connect at 10:00 am EST/ 3.00 pm (GMT):
http://worldbankva.adobeconnect.com/numeracywebinar/

Click on the “Enter as Guest” option, enter your full name in the text field and then click the “Enter Room” button

The webinar series is part of a Community of Practice on Numeracy facilitated by the Global Partnership for Education. The community of practice is open to teachers, educators, practitioners, researchers, academics and others interested in numeracy.

Join the community of practice on ‘Numeracy for Development’ here.

All webinars are at 10am EST (3pm GMT) and typically fall on the first Wednesday of the month, unless otherwise noted. Here is the schedule for upcoming webinars:

• July 10, 2013 – Steve Leinwand, American Institutes for Research – What we know about high quality instruction and need to see in all math classes
• August 7, 2013 – Luis Crouch, RTI International – Economic Development Arguments for Numeracy
• September 4, 2013 – Aarnout Brombacher – Developing Number Sense, Experiences from Classrooms
• October 2, 2013 – Leanne Ketterlin Geller, Southern Methodist University – Review of the EGMA data from a psychometric perspective
• November 6, 2013 – Kamal Herath, Plan Sri Lanka – Boosting Mathematics Skills Through Play-Based Learning in Sri-Lanka
• December 4 2013 – Meera Tendolkar – Pratham’s ‘learning camp’ model- a non-linear approach to explore how children best learn math in India

If you have specific expertise in numeracy and would like to present in a webinar, please contact Deepa Srikantaiah at dsrikantaiah@globalpartnership.org.

By Deepa Srikantaiah (GPE) and Debashree Roy (GIZ)