On Wednesday 26 February, Commonwealth Alumnus Siddharth Pillai delivered a webinar on ‘Improving teaching practices in crisis settings’.
This webinar addressed the CSC development theme of Access, inclusion and opportunity. The CSC’s Development in Action webinar series aims to highlight the work and research of Commonwealth Alumni across a range of development impact areas.
About the speaker
Siddharth Pillai is the Education Advisor at Street Child. In this role, he oversaw the education portfolio of the Afghanistan office before and after the Taliban’s takeover in 2021. Siddharth has also served as a Steering Group Member for USAID’s Global Reading Network, aligning USAID’s objectives in Global Education with the values of Leading through Learning. Siddharth is the winner of the 2024 Study UK Alumni Award for Social Action.
Siddharth Pillai is a 2018 Commonwealth Shared Scholar from India. He completed an MPhil Education, Globalisation and International Development at the University of Cambridge.
Understanding the teaching-learning crisis
In this webinar, Siddharth discussed the opportunities and challenges of improving education service delivery in crisis settings.
Globally, there is an emergency in children’s education with access to quality learning opportunities and materials being affected by rising levels of conflict. In this webinar, Siddharth highlighted the ways in which teachers and coaches can improve teaching methods and practices, even in low-resource settings, backed by data-driven interventions and targeted support. To illustrate this, he discussed examples from his own experience of changing instructional practices at scale in Afghanistan and Sierra Leone.
This webinar presentation was followed by an interactive Q&A session with Commonwealth Scholars and Alumni. A recording of this webinar is available to view on the CSC’s YouTube channel where you can also watch previous events in the series.
After the webinar, attendees were invited to network with fellow attendees to further discuss the webinar topic, exchange ideas and knowledge, seek out collaborators for their own work, and promote their research.
Join future Development in Action webinars
The CSC’s Development in Action webinars take place each month and are open to all Commonwealth Scholars and Alumni.
To find out about upcoming webinars, please visit our events webpage.
