The County Government of Nakuru, through the Department of Education, is partnering with EIDU to conduct a Training of Trainers (TOT) program for Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) Programme Officers and Supervisors on the EIDU Tayari program for pre-primary schools.
This program targets early grade reading, and the TOTs will subsequently cascade the training to ECDE teachers across the county.
The aim of this training is to build the capacity of teachers in using the Tayari Methodology to deliver Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) lessons and to utilize the EIDU application for delivering Tayari lessons.
This initiative will enhance the quality of education for early learners in Nakuru County.
The Tayari program focuses on improving learners’ knowledge and skills in literacy and numeracy, preparing them cognitively, physically, socially and emotionally to start and succeed in primary school.
Currently, the TOTs are undergoing training on mathematics activities. Last term, they were trained on language activities, which had a positive impact on the ECDE learners by the end of the term, as reported by the program officers.
EIDU is building a learning platform that brings world class learning content and training to local and middle income countries to improve education systems.
It can be used to deliver learning content more efficiently through detailed lesson plans, personalized digital learning that are interactive for students and conducting regular assessments.
Millicent Yugi, the County Director for Early Childhood Development Education, expressed her appreciation to EIDU for supporting the Tayari program and for its contribution to digital learning for ECDE learners across the county.
She noted that Tayari had already been integrated into a structured programme for pre-primary schools, and combined with a digital personalized learning curriculum consisting of scores of learning activities.
EIDU was founded in 2015, by Bernd Roggendorf, who was greatly concerned about the inequalities in accessing quality education.
He therefore developed an innovative open-source digital platform that delivers personalized learning content and assessments to students in low and middle-income countries.
“We want to empower the world to solve the UN’s “Sustainable Development Goal 4” – inclusive and equitable quality education for all,” Roggendorf noted in a previous interview. “The scale of the global learning crisis is staggering, but we believe technology can be the great equalizer if implemented thoughtfully.”
EIDU starts by training all teacher supervisors, who in turn train school teachers.
Subsequently, supervisors visit schools to coach teachers in improving their teaching with support from EIDU staff and the digital platform.
EIDU has distributed a number of smartphones to be used by teachers (access to daily lesson plans) and students (access to interactive exercises).
By Jane Ngugi
