From Umar Dankano, Yola
The TaRL Africa (Teaching at the right level)Organization in conjunction with Oando Foundation and the Adamawa state Universal Basic Education Board, ADSUBEB have organized a one baseline assessment lower level capacity building training for head teachers, supervisors and Education secretaries in Adamawa state.
Addressing participants from three pilot local government areas including ; Girei, Demsa and Yola North local councils, the Program and partnership Associate,TaRL Africa, Joel Jutum said that, the initiative was floated in an effort to improve the low level learning challenge bedeviling basic school pupils in the state.
Jutum explained that, the 2024/2025 baseline assessment overview conducted by the partners through data collation from the teachers, supervisors and Education secretaries have revealed disturbing picture exposing low learning capacity of the pupils in most of the public schools.
Jutum lamented that, the situation need new and urgent approaches to tackle the ugly trend, noting that, in some schools, pupils can’t identify one digit number or a letter sound word which to him is a great negative result for the system.
He stated that, the survey by the head teachers and supervisors provide a template for testing new minimum variable product and the quantity of materials being used in teaching appealing to the participants to ensure full implementation of what they learned from the training.
