Strategy to enhance early learning
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The strategy includes conducting internal quality assurance programme within schools where head teachers and school owners become the main supervisors reporting to national quality assurance officers.
Dar es Salaam. The ministry of Education and Vocational Training has set key strategies to enable pupils in pre-primary and primary schools learn to read, write and count properly.
The strategy comes after it was noted that the number of students finishing Standard Seven without knowing how to read, write and count was rising.
An Education ministry official, Ms Marystella Wasena, briefed journalists of the strategy Friday noting that was one of the six strategies that have already been implemented.
According to her, all 1,469 quality assurance officers in the country have been trained on how to conduct the quality assurance programme in inspection and monitoring pre and primary school teaching on reading, writing and counting (mathematics).
She said the strategy includes conducting internal quality assurance programme within schools where head teachers and school owners become the main supervisors reporting to national quality assurance officers.
The strategies which will be implemented in the next one year also include conducting research which will inform on progress and emerging challenges. Depending on quality assurance officers alone was not enough, and the research will add value in identifying more areas to improve or put emphasis.
“During the next year, we will closely supervise the teachers to see if they teach according to the syllabi, because sometimes teachers do not use the proposed guides,” she said.
Pre-education quality control officer Hawa Selemani noted that although many challenges contributed to learning challenges teachers made matters worse by refusing to use proposed teaching guides.
