UG Teacher and School Effectiveness Project

  • P Project/Program

I Inactive

Key Information

The objective of the Teacher and School Effectiveness Project for Uganda is to support the government in improving teacher and school effectiveness in the public primary education system. There are three components to the project, the first component being effective teachers. Under the project, teacher effectiveness will be promoted through implementing a program of actions designed to strengthen effectiveness of early grade literacy instruction at the classroom levels, including: improving teacher and instructor competitiveness (content, knowledge, skills and pedagogy) and practices for the delivery of the early grade numeracy and literacy primary school curriculum, targeting: primary teachers and instructors, through interalia: scaling up the early grade reading program for primary grades 1-3. It will benefit approximately 1,000, 000 pupils and 12,100 teachers and tutors. The second component is the effective schools. The component are designed to directly improve teacher performance. Finally, the third component is the implementation support and capacity building. This component will finance advisory, technical, and capacity-building activities, including: strengthening management of the teacher payroll system, implementation of the scheme of service and teacher management, all through the provision of technical advisory services, training, operating costs and acquisition of goods for the purpose.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Uganda

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Uganda

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2015 - 2020

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education and Sports

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Not changed

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion

Quality

  • School facilities
  • School quality
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Population of interest is not school-aged

School Level

  • Vocational

Other populations reached

  • School administrators
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Teachers as mentors

School-related gender-based violence

  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • Pre-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • Teacher incentives
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Literacy - outside the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - outside the classroom

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Increased agency and empowerment