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Teacher Enhancement Program |
The Project
- Seminar for 200 elementary and high school educators, with a one-year personalized follow-up through in-person visits and coaching;
- Equip educators with leadership and management skills to raise the quality of education, especially in disadvantaged areas surrounding and outside of the major cities.
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The needs
- Educators have many challenges – poverty, violence, spread of HIV/AIDS – for which they need training.
- Improving the quality of teaching can help lower student dropout rates, keeping more students in school and making a difference in the lives of more of them.
- Poorly built schools have hygiene problems, presenting risks for student health for which teachers need specialized training.
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What teachers learn
- Leadership
- Awareness of their students living and social conditions
- Communication and negotiation skills
- Classroom management and harmonizing home/school relations
- Health and hygiene skills
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Our partner in Kenya
- Strathmore University of Nairobi started the Teacher Enhancement Program in 2002
- Since then, Strathmore has successfully trained 2,000 educators.
Educators Training Is Ongoing
- In the fall of 2010, a total of 200 educators participated in an intensive seminar in our Teacher Enhancement Program.
- In January of 2011, Strathmore University supervisors selected 30 projects submitted by the participants to improve their respective schools. They will help each of these projects for nine months to ensure the implementation of suggested improvements.
- Many thanks to all the people who helped make this possible!
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