Africa-Press – Botswana. Kweneng Education Region has partnered with Youth Impact organisation through the Teaching At Right Level (TARL) programme to ease learning by making it more fun while promoting teacher and pupils interaction for improved results.
The TARL programme aims to help pupils failing to grasp what is being taught in a normal class set-up.
Kweneng Regional Operations Director Mr Steve Bothasitse said the programme would be implemented through literate (English) and numerical (Mathematics) as the major subjects of learning.
“Implementation will be done on primary school pupils from standard one to five but it is also applicable for standard seven learners,” said Mr Bothasitse.
Senior Manager Content and Trainer, Ms Thato Israel revealed that they had implemented the programme in five regions (South East, Kgatleng, Chobe, North East and West) with Kweneng region being the sixth.
She said they were targeting primary learners from standard three to five and trained teachers from different schools about TARL, by doing practicals on what they have learnt.
“In Kweneng we are training 55 teachers from 15 different schools which started with first batch in January and now the second batch and our aim is to implement this programme across all primary schools by the year 2025. Basically we first access the pupils in each class in order to find out what pupils can do and are not be able to do. After that they are grouped according to abilities to start the implementation of TARL,” Ms Letsomo said adding that this programme would be done in 30 days for an hour per every learning day.
One of the first training beneficiaries in Kweneng region Michael Moleofi, a teacher from Louw Memorial Primary School, after the January training he implemented what he learnt in the programme.
He said his learners’ marks had improved from 40 to 75 per cent between January and April, which showed that the programme was capable of improving pupils’ marks and their learning abilities, as well as the education sector.
One of the teachers Duncan Moatlhodi from Ngware Primary school who was in the second batch of training, stated that the training was a good experience for him as he learnt ways of improving teaching and engaging more with his pupils.
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