Educational inequity is a persistent challenge across the globe. Due to its relevance, access to ‘inclusive and equitable quality education’ is one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ratified by the United Nations General Assembly. We approach assessment from an educational equity perspective and aim to explore ways of making primary school assessment more equitable.

This toolkit was developed by teacher trainers and students at ITEps (International Teacher Education for Primary Schools), together with researchers from the research group on Multilingualism & Literacy at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences and from the professorship for Global Citizenship and Bilingual Education of the University of Amsterdam.

The toolkit explores how engaging in forms of critical citizenship education—an umbrella term to address educational approaches at the crossroads between citizenship education and critical pedagogy—in combination with exploring approaches towards culturally (and linguistically) responsive pedagogies may improve the educational pathways of linguistic and culturally diverse pupils during primary education.

Getting started
If you are visiting the toolkit for the first time, you will need to create an account. You will be guided through the process of creating your own account. Please pay attention to our privacy policy.

Once you are logged in
You can select any one of the learning pathways. Follow the steps in the selected pathway. After completing a pathway, you can choose a different pathway from the main screen.

In the learning pathways, there are various activities that require you to answer questions or upload a file. When doing so, please remember to include your anonymous ID in your response or the file name.

All contributions will be added in an anonymous way. You will not be linked to the content you share. Content you upload may be used for research purposes.

Duration
When using the toolkit, the following time frames are a good estimate of what to expect:

• To engage with all content will take around 180 minutes (3 hours).
• To engage with some content and to skip over some nodes will take around 90 minutes (1.5 hours).
• At various intervals, activities are offered that can be used by a team of teachers, such as in the context of school development. These activities may take longer but are voluntary and not strictly necessary.

Share your experience
After you have finished using the GlobalEquitEd toolkit, we would appreciate receiving your feedback through this survey.

This toolkit was developed within the project Critical global citizenship for educational equity – the role of linguistic and cultural diversity in transitioning from primary to secondary education , which was funded by the Global Education Award of the EERA (European Educational Research Association). More information is available here.