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The Borno State Government with support from the Department for International Development (DFID) through UNICEF, Plan International, and TaRL Africa recently concluded a small Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) pilot reaching over 9000 children in twelve schools. The pilot provided the opportunity to mould and trial the TaRL approach in Nigeria, revealing critical insights into operations, model modifications, …

TaRL Borno Pilot Wraps Up Read More »

Cross–posted from the J-PAL blog. The application of the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach in Zambia, through the Ministry of General Education’s Catch Up program, provides an opportunity to capture key aspects of TaRL in an African context. TaRL pioneer Pratham, together with J-PAL Africa, worked closely with the Ministry of General Education to produce a set of videos that transport the …

Teaching at the Right Level: Inside the classroom Read More »

Cross–posted from the J-PAL blog. Building on over a decade of rigorous research around the world and two years of iterative learning in Zambia, the Ministry of General Education will scale up a program called Catch Up to approximately 1,800 schools in Zambia over the next three years. Based on the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach pioneered …

Zambia to scale Teaching at the Right Level programme to 1,800 schools Read More »

“Once you stop learning, you start dying” – Albert Einstein. I wanted to keep learning so, in February 2020, I set out on a two week learning journey to India – the home of the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach developed by Pratham. To make the most out of this learning journey, I had to …

The domicile of TaRL—a personal reflection Read More »