Teacher Capacity Building
We provide relevant hands-on skills to in-service teachers in public schools.
Teacher Training at Chigumukile Primary School TDC
Together with clusters of schools, we identify skills gaps that teachers have to teach better.
We develop content and offer the training to the teachers. In collaboration with the Ministry of Education, we monitor and supervise the impact of the training.
We are currently in training teachers in Blantyre rural, Blantyre urban, Ntchisi, Thyolo, Mchinji and Zomba.
First, in 1994, when the Ministry of Education introduced free primary education, enrolment numbers of students exceeded the capacity of the government to offer quality education. During this time, the government employed 10th and 12th-gradehigh school graduates to teach in schools. They hoped to train them on school breaks, but the quality was not the same. It was not as great. Unfortunately, many of those have now risen in responsibility and influence in the education system. They are now running schools.
Second, in 2018 the teacher education curriculum changed in Malawi. However, none of the curriculum changes trickled down to the rest of the teachers in the education systems. Our program is one of the few ways to trickle down the changes in the curriculum. We run one of the largest teacher networks in Malawi. We are serving 2679 teachers, present in 222 primary schools, serving at least 230,000 students.