Hempel Foundation的动态

Motivating teachers to improve foundational literacy and numeracy? The global learning crisis shows how millions of children leave school without having mastered foundational skills such as basic literacy and numeracy. In Tanzania this means that 31% of grade 7 students do not pass a combination of basic grade 2 level skill tests, and 55% of all children aged 9-13 don’t pass (2017 Uwezo learning assessment). At the same time, teacher absence rates are high because it is challenging to retain and motivate teachers. Especially in rural areas in Tanzania it is difficult to attract educated and qualified teachers. A World Bank report from October 2020 emphasizes that teacher incentive programs can have a large impact on children’s learning outcomes in low-income countries. The report also states that more research and development in this area is needed, which is why we want to gather more evidence in our new partnership. We are supporting our partner Twaweza East Africa with their teacher incentives program KiuFunza for early grade teachers, that aims to improve foundational literacy and numeracy in public primary schools in Tanzania. In partnership with the government in Tanzania, Twaweza has been implementing a 3-year scalable and cost-effective pilot project that improves learning outcomes of primary school children in the country. We are now supporting Twaweza to scale this pilot project to 300 schools across the country. So far, their gathered evidence shows that offering teachers a simple and modestly sized performance reward linked to learning, can significantly improve their performance. This directly leads to improved learning outcomes for children. We are excited to work together with Twaweza on contributing to SDG 4: Quality Education for all boys and girls.?? Read more about the KiuFunza program here: https://lnkd.in/eJ-jwnQp #education #learning #school #empower #motivate #children #teachers #future #Tanzania #EducationMatters #qualityeducation #sdg4