TTISSA

Teachers Training Initiative for Sub Saharan Africa (TTISSA)

TTISSA’s main objective is to support countries in sub-Saharan Africa to develop teacher policies in the context of Education for All. The unprecedented growth of enrollment in Africa since 2000 poses huge challenges to teacher policies: recruitment, training, pay, status, management, social dialogue, etc. Lack of holistic and shared vision of the teaching issue is an obstacle to the emergence of new teacher policies to respond to the multiple challenges posed by EFA. This is both the result of fragmented approaches of the teaching issue, which artificially separates dimensions that should be tackled simultaneously (and teachers need training, training and careers, etc.), and also the lack of knowledge on a number of key dimensions (training, attrition, absenteeism, etc.).

UNESCO Africa work :

- Expand the area of diagnosis of the teaching issue. TTISSA has developed a methodology to analyze the issue in its entirety. This methodology is formalized in a country guide. The objective is to allow national teams to perform complete diagnostics of the issue in their country. The work uses a participatory approach in which different departments (education, government, finance) and partners (unions, NGOs) are associated. Using a rigorous analysis, it identifies ways of improving teaching and policies lays the foundations for a dialogue based on a shared analysis. This dialogue is essential to develop a consensus conducive to the emergence of new teacher policies;

- Organize regional training workshops allowing the sharing of experiences. The results and the methodology of diagnosis can serve as a basis for sharing workshops and training providers for both executive departments of education that teachers' unions;

- Encourage research on teaching and related issues;

- Improve project designs focused on teachers based on the methodology and results of the teacher policy diagnostics.

UNESCO Africa results:

First meeting of the TTISSA Steering Committtee

Development of a diagnostic tool for the analysis of teachers policies and the development of action plan

- Sub-regional Workshop of sharing experience on Teacher Education: Lessons from CapEFA Project in Guinea

- 10 countries of West Africa analyzed their Teacher Education Policy, Model of training and Evaluation System

Training of Schools directors and schools inspectors in school management and pedagogic leadership

- 6 countries (French-speaking) in West and Central Africa: 350 schools directors and schools inspectors

Training of Normal Schools Directors and dean of science education faculty in management:

- Pilot on Guinea & Niger and 1 regional workshop for PALOP countries and Equatorial Guinea

- Training on institutional management, financial management, human resources management, etc.