T2T Adaptive Learning Programme (ALP)

Minimising the impact of school closures

T2T believes equally passionately that every young person deserves quality training opportunities and every primary school student deserves a quality teacher. The ALP is designed to support CVTs and their students, minimising the impact of school closure and maximising on several methods of learning. CVTs provide excellent, adaptable, basic education and raise the aspirations and prospects for children in the most challenged primary schoolS. T2T recognises thats school closures impact engagement, inclusion and attainment levels among students in primary schools. The pandemic has caused a global education emergency, which is why T2T trains CVTs in adaptive teaching methods, building resilience for themselves and their students.

Promoting adaptive teaching methods

More than two-thirds of children in the Northern Region live in poverty (UNICEF, 2020) and just 54% complete primary school, compared to 94% nationally and this has worsened due to the impacts of the pandemic.

T2T CVTs are trained in adaptive teaching methods to engage girls, Persons with Disabilities and out-of-school children to enable access to inclusive, adaptive, high-quality education. Adaptive learning builds resilience and is inclusive of different ways of learning dependent on child needs. T2T’s ALP supports community education, health and well-being resilience and safeguarding in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. All this while supporting the livelihoods and increasing the employability levels of our Community Volunteer Teachers.

Training CVTs in adaptive teaching and learning strategies

T2T’s training manual trains CVTs in adaptive strategies:

• CVTs provide catch up lessons to help students transition back to school once they re-open

• CVTs have the capacity to provide home assignments for students to continue learning when schools are closed

• CVTs are trained in non-school based learning

• Accessing online open educational resources

• Small group lessons

Out-of-classroom learning and learning through play

Additional support in the areas where we work is needed both when schools are closed and when they re-open so that students do not fall behind, students re-enrol into school, classes can be taught in socially distant ways with small group learning, and if they must close again owing to spikes in infection rates T2T will ensure teaching and learning will continue.

Adaptive teaching methods make teaching creative and interactive. CVTs are trained in the best, modern, child-centred teaching practices, and wider leadership skills, focusing on numeracy, literacy, problem solving, learning through participation and, in the younger years, through play

'We are very happy that the CVTs have been posted to our school. Ibrahim Mubarik has brought life to the school again by establishing a volleyball team. We are grateful to the School for Life and T2T International' - Headteacher of a local school