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J-PAL Africa and Pratham have launched a new Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) website in response to growing demand from governments, schools, and NGOs for details on TaRL methodology and implementation. In recent years, education stakeholders have become increasingly aware of low foundational skill levels in primary schools and the lack of safety nets for the …

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TaRL Africa: Who we are The Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Africa team was launched in January as a joint initiative of Pratham and J-PAL. We collaborate with governments and partners across Africa to address the learning crisis in primary schools through TaRL, an educational approach that builds foundational reading and mathematics skills. Pratham and J-PAL have worked …

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Elizabeth Ndyanabangi who worked closely on the Roots to Rise intervention in Uganda , reflects on a TaRL Mathematics training organized by the People’s Action for Learning Network (PAL Network), which took place in Bungoma, Kenya. TaRL Mathematics Training in Bungoma, Kenya In a quest to learn more about TaRL classroom methodology, I attended a TaRL numeracy training from …

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TaRL Africa team member Ashleigh Morrell reflects on how Nobel laureates, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, helped pave the way for a quiet Teaching at the Right Level revolution across schools in Africa. It’s late 2016, and I’m standing at the back of a classroom in rural Eastern Province, Zambia, together with my colleague Emily …

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TaRL Workshop 2019 trainer, Fred Abungu. Photo: Young 1ove. From 10-18 September 2019, TaRL Africa and Young 1ove co-hosted a TaRL Workshop. The workshop covered each aspect of the TaRL approach including TaRL models, assessment, reading and maths classroom methodology, mentoring, monitoring, and working with governments. The workshop also included time to practice assessment and …

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From 27-28 January 2020, Rukmini Banerji (CEO, Pratham) visited Zambia with the TaRL Africa Board of Directors to see the Catch Up programme in action. She shares snapshots from the visit and reflections on the Catch Up programme.   The teacher was telling a story. It was a story from her own childhood; about a …

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Careful monitoring and observation of each component of the TaRL approach is an important aspect of successful TaRL implementation. In this post, we reflect on how the TaRL Africa team, along with country TaRL teams in Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire, identified challenges with the TaRL assessment tool and used this information to tweak it. The new assessment …

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VVOB Zambia team member Richard Bwale continues to work from home. Photo: VVOB This blogpost is part of a series – over the next few months, the TaRL blog hopes to showcase what various organisations are doing to continue to support education systems and ensure that learning continues while schools across the world are closed …

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