Numeracy TIE Book Teachers Guide Standard I-II PDF

Education Sector Development Programme (ESDP) insists on building capacity, skills and attitudes for providing quality education service in all levels.

This plan focuses on achievements for primary education based on equity and quality of education for all children from preprimary to primary education.

Government initiatives to reach those broad objectives aim at promoting basic skills in Reading, Writing and Numeracy (named as 3Rs) for early standard pupils in primary schools.

The focus on 3Rs skills are keys in helping pupils to learn effectively. These skills can only be achieved when pupils work with teachers who are competent in the 3Rs.

Although teachers for early standards received training for some schools, the training can not be considered as a complete intervention due to the fact that achieving teacher competence is not a one shot task.

In order to achieve quality of teachers, teachers themselves are supposed to learn continuously within and outside their working schools.

The teaching of the 3Rs requires collaboration among teachers and mentorship scheme for upcoming teachers within the school as managed by the head teacher and senior early standard teachers.

The mentorship process should include monitoring and evaluation of mentees to determine if they are providing high quality instruction in 3Rs.

It is vital that schools be responsible for supporting teachers on school-based continuous professional development in numeracy if we are to achieve quality teaching and learning in classrooms.