Toolkit for Assessing and Promoting Equity in the Classroom

This toolkit from the Equity in the Classroom Project is aimed at teachers, teacher trainers, school directors and others at the school level. The toolkit is designed to help conduct school-based research and teacher learning to identify factors that limit equitable participation and achievement in education and to provide strategies to improve curriculum and teaching. The tools include:

1. School Equity Profile: to establish what factors affect gender inequality.
2. Child Profile: to establish problems that affect the learning process.
3. Classroom Observation: to identify specific factors in the classroom (teaching methods, teacher-student dynamics) that lead to low levels of girls' participation.
4. Textbook Analysis of Equity: for collecting quantitative and qualitative data which shows gender biases.
5. School and Family Interaction: to collect information on the relationship between school and family and to raise awareness on issues of gender equality.
6. Action Plans: to define objectives increase the commitment for action.