Teachers’ Capacity Building

The starting point is training teachers so they are equipped to teach children. This year we are working with 471 teachers who collectively teach 13,505 children. Our mission is ‘to provide the best possible start in early grade education through access to quality teaching and learning at school’. Our activities in rural schools include:


 	
Practical professional training for teachers in workshop settings
 	
School-based mentor training to provide support to teachers to embed newly acquired skills in classroom practices, and to ensure the model is sustainable
 	
Basic hygiene education for teachers, children and community members to reduce preventable illnesses and improve school attendance

The impact of our work on teaching quality and student learning outcomes has been so profound that we have been commissioned by UNESCO (working alongside the Ministry of Education) to prepare a national training package for mentoring and scaling our model to thousands more teachers.