Achieving Teaching Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa Empirical Results f
Sarah Lange examines the effectiveness of cascade training, which constitutes a cost-effective training model in teacher training. In development cooperation countries, teaching quality is expected to improve with teacher professional development; for thi
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Achieving Teaching Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa Empirical Results from Cascade Training
Achieving Teaching Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sarah Lange
Achieving Teaching Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa Empirical Results from Cascade Training With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Aaron Benavot
Sarah Lange Bamberg, Deutschland Dissertation Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 2015
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Foreword from Aaron Benavot
A sufficient supply of teachers and educators who are “empowered, well-trained, professionally qualified, motivated and supported” has been agreed upon by the international education community as a key target in the post-2015 development agenda. African leaders have also committed their countries to this critical policy objective so as to ensure good quality education for all African children. However, it is one thing to put pen to paper and commit to this laudable aim, it is quite another for governments to take effective action to ensure that those teachers who enter school classrooms are knowledgeable and skillful in their teaching practices, resulting in significant learning for all. Pre-service and in-service training programs are critical if African classrooms are to be populated with effective teachers. Sarah Lange’s dissertation, Achieving Teaching Quality in sub-Saharan Africa: Empirical findings from Cascade Training, is a well-argued and rigorously designed study of a promising professional development program in Cameroon in which trained teachers teach other teachers, who then use their new skills to teach more teachers and so on. This study shows that such ‘cascade training’ can have multiplier e
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