The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is set to support the training of approximately 5,000 school-based mentors and subject teachers on the new basic education curriculum, as well as new instructional materials for P4. The training will be conducted in December and January at Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs) across the country by the Rwanda Education Board (REB) and USAID’s Literacy, Language, and Learning (L3) Initiative, which is implemented by Education Development Center.
USAID’s L3 Initiative has developed materials to complement the Ministry’s new curriculum in P4. English materials include detailed teacher guides with pre-scripted lessons, stories for teachers to read aloud to students, and books for students to read in class and at home. The math materials also include detailed teachers guides as well as samples of math games and activities teachers can use to engage learners. Instructional materials for P1, P2, and P3 teachers have been produced and implemented by L3 in recent years.
As part of the L3 activity, TTC tutors and literacy and numeracy advisors from Voluntary Services Overseas will conduct the trainings. Afterward, school-based mentors and school subject leaders will be responsible for providing support to P1-P4 teachers on the new curriculum and, specifically, to P4 teachers on the use of the new P4 materials.
“REB is eager to enable schools begin implementing the new national competence-based curriculum, and we are pleased that teachers are already being trained to support it,” said REB Director General, Janvier Gasana.
To date, the USAID-funded L3 activity has distributed more than 7 million teacher guides, story collections, student reading books and 14,000 cell phones loaded with audio lessons to public and government-aided schools nationwide. Approximately 18,000 P1, P2, and P3 teachers have been trained on using L3 materials and the teaching practices they introduce.
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