Teachers’ Portal is the world's only lifestyle gateway platform dedicated to teachers where they can access educational contents, financial and healthcare services. An overall journey of a teacher is ensured with their capacity development, providing them with scopes from marginalized areas which they never had received before.
The philosophy behind creating the platform was that teaching content should be customized to each classroom and created by teachers themselves, instead of consultants and companies. Started by 23 teachers in 2011, it has now grown into a popular, full-fledged social media site and is now the largest online educational content storage and professional development platform in Bangladesh, boasting more than 631,198 teachers as active members with 798,571 contents shared throughout the platform.

Teachers can post presentations, videos, blogs, and publications on various topics, ranging from general academic subjects to madrasas and technical subjects. An online repository is maintained where multimedia educational contents are stored, accessed, and shared freely. Fellow teachers can post comments which help content creators to improve through peer feedback. Every fortnight, based on various criteria including their online rating by users, teachers are recognized as the best content developers, innovative teachers, one institution head for leadership, and best online performers. Some teachers have also been endorsed as ICT4E (ICT for Education) District Ambassadors, selected through their active role in the platform, in their respective school districts, and play pioneering roles in teaching-learning development. Via the nearly 2656 ICT4E ambassadors, the practice is cascaded all over the country, thus allowing for more citizens to enjoy the benefits of the platform. The Education Directorates have recognized them as special consideration for teacher trainers in the efforts to disseminate the new curriculum and ensure the sustainability of the initiative.

https://www.teachers.gov.bd/

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In countries where teachers’ training can be costly or difficult to implement in remote areas, the platform can be a low-cost and easily adaptable solution in order to bring forth Education 4.0 and its relevant skills for budding teachers’ communities. It can be further replicated if the opportunity arises at international partnership levels.

The portal is contributing to achieve SDG 4 by ensuring quality and inclusive education, and promoting life-long learning opportunities for all. Its evolution over the years means that it is well-positioned to play a key role in the country’s march towards attaining the targets of the SDG 4. Moreover, by its concept and design, the Teachers’ Portal is also directly contributing to indicators 2, 3, 4, 6,7 and 8 by ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting life-long learning opportunities for all.

With the new National curriculum, Teachers' Portal allows teachers to renew their teaching learning activities and ensure that their content delivery is uniformed across all school levels. Teachers' Portal's forum where the teachers share ideas and innovations assures the freedom and shared responsibility of the users. Teachers possess complete freedom of posting presentations, videos, blogs, and publications on various topics. The teachers not only exchange ideas but also participate in different competitions across the platform from which they are able to promote solidarity and tolerance towards one aanother. The diverse range of digital contents that are shared based on the required needs of the peers regardless of their social, economic, gender differences has been successfully able to establish equality throughout the platform. Moreover, there are 64.56% male and 35.44% female teachers among the users helping Teachers' Portal establish gender equality.