TaRL Virtual Workshop – 2021
TaRL Virtual Workshop 2021 Agenda Day 1: 12th April Day 2: 13th April Day 3: 14th April Day 4: 15th April Day 5: 16th April Day 6: 19th April Day 7: 20th April Day 8: 21st April Day 9: 22nd April Day 10: 23rd April
Kenya needs to invest in advancing literacy and numeracy skills in early grades.
Learning outcomes for children in early grades are poor despite ambitious education reforms in the country, such as the free primary education act and the introduction of the competency-based curriculum (CBC). Reports show that while the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to huge learning losses, over the years the salient issue has been that children were in …
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Government officials in Uganda visit Teaching at the Right Level in schools
Government officials visit TaRL sessions in Uganda. Photo: VVOB in Uganda “Why are we not teaching like this in all classrooms?” asked Mr. Ismael Mulindwa, the Director of Basic & Secondary Education from the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES), when he and colleagues witnessed the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) methodology at …
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International Literacy Day: Let’s focus on learning for all
Governments across Africa have made tremendous gains in promoting school enrolment, with most low- to middle-income countries now enrolling primary school-age children at rates close to those in high-income countries. According to UNICEF, the global net school attendance rate for primary education reached 87 percent in 2019, with about four out of five children attending …
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Accelerating Learning When Schools Resume
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 …
Meet TaRL Africa’s Managing Director: Titus Syengo
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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Data for action
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 …
Zambia to scale Teaching at the Right Level programme to 1,800 schools
Cross–posted from the J-PAL blog. Building on over a decade of rigorous research around the world and two years of iterative learning in Zambia, the Ministry of General Education will scale up a program called Catch Up to approximately 1,800 schools in Zambia over the next three years. Based on the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach pioneered …
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