Is there a teacher training conference in India in 2027?

The Global Learning Lab 2027 in Lucknow, 8–10 February 2027, includes teacher development and professional learning for foundational literacy and numeracy in its programme.

Can teachers and teacher educators attend?

Yes. Teachers, teacher educators, school leaders and practitioners are part of the intended delegate mix alongside ministers, officials, researchers and partners.

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Teacher development and professional learning

Q: What makes teacher training effective for foundational learning?

Training tied to a specific classroom method, rehearsed rather than lectured, followed by support in the teacher's own classroom, and paired with quick assessment feedback showing whether children are learning.

FLN teacher training that changes what happens in the classroom

No foundational learning reform outperforms the teachers delivering it. Teacher development is where a policy either becomes a daily classroom routine or stays a circular in a file.

Why most teacher training does not change practice

A large share of in-service training explains why a reform matters without ever rehearsing what a teacher should do differently at nine o'clock on Monday. Teachers return convinced of the goal and unchanged in method.

Training that does shift practice tends to share a few features: it is specific to a method, it is practised rather than only presented, it is followed by support in the teacher's own classroom, and it gives the teacher quick evidence that children are learning.

Specific to a defined classroom method, not general principles
Practised and rehearsed, not only presented
Followed by in-classroom support and coaching
Paired with quick feedback on pupil learning

Training at system scale

A district pilot can be supported intensively. A state cannot. Training that must reach very large numbers of teachers has to be simple enough to cascade without losing its content, and cheap enough per teacher to be sustained beyond an initial grant.

This constraint — not enthusiasm for a method — is what usually decides whether a reform survives contact with a full state system.

Teacher voice in reform design

Teachers are the most reliable source of information on why an approach is not working, and are typically consulted last. Programmes that build in a channel from classrooms back to designers tend to correct faster.

The Lab's programme includes practitioners and teacher educators alongside ministers and researchers, so the implementation conversation includes the people doing the implementing.

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PedagogyThe method teachers are trained in.ALfA pedagogyTraining materials and films.Foundational literacy and numeracyThe outcome being taught towards.Programme and agendaThe three-day agenda, session by session.Register for GLL 2027Delegate registration for 8–10 February 2027 in Lucknow.

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Three days with systems that have trained teachers at scale — including what did not work.

8–10 February 2027 · Lucknow, India