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 …
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 …
From 9-18 September, Young 1ove and TaRL Africa hosted participants from organisations across Africa for a TaRL learning journey and workshop in Gaborone, Botswana. Lindi Strydom from South African-based organisation, Community Action Partnership (CAP) reflects on her experience at the Workshop. In September, representatives from all over Africa attended an 8-day Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) …
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 …
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 …
On International Mother Languages Day, Usha Rane (Pratham and TaRL Africa team member) shares her personal reflections from years of working in and visiting schools across Asia and Africa, and celebrates children learning to read in their mother languages. A tall Master Trainer in his mid-forties from Côte d’Ivoire was narrating a story of his …
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How Zambia’s Catch Up team uses case studies to highlight the importance of using data to improve learning The Ministry of General Education in Zambia is entering its fourth year of scaling the Catch Up Programme. In 2020, the Ministry will run the programme in more than 1,800 schools, close to full scale in two of …
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 …
Titus Syengo. Photo: Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Africa is a joint venture by Pratham and J-PAL established in January 2019. The TaRL Africa team supports partners working to address the learning crisis in primary schools in Africa through the evidence-based TaRL approach. In TaRL Africa’s first year and a …
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Children in a PEC classroom in Côte d’Ivoire read a short paragraph. Photo: Samyukta Lakshman The Challenge The COVID-19 pandemic has meant the sudden closure of schools across the world. According to UNICEF, as of 20 April 2020, over 1.6 billion students (91% of the global population) were affected by COVID-19 related school closures. Some …
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