Overview

Teaching at Right Level (TaRL), a pioneer approach by the Indian NGO Pratham, aims to solve a learning crisis at its root. The approach divides children (generally in grades 3 to 6) based on their level of learning and skills rather than age or grade. It also focuses on basic reading and arithmetic skills rather than focusing only on the curriculum; Regularly evaluating students' performance rather than relying solely on end-of-year exams.

Through several pilots & evaluations in India, as well as a growing body of research in Africa, it has been shown that when TaRL is implemented successfully, learning outcomes improve.

From this standpoint, Educate Me, in cooperation with the Indian Pratham Organization, the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development, Maitri Trust and the Egyptian Ministry of Education, contextualized the program to the Arabic language and Egyptian context for the first time in Egypt and the MENA Region, and implemented it within Public schools and community schools in Egypt in order to test its effectiveness in the Egyptian context to contribute to solving the problem of weak reading and arithmetic skills among students in the upper elementary grades.

Program Objectives

Evidence-Based educational approach that helps children develop basic reading and mathematics skills, opening doors to a brighter future.

Evidence-backed educational approach that helps children develop basic reading and mathematics skills, opening doors to a brighter future.

“When I go to a school that wasn’t a TaRL program participant and finds that the students are facing a certain problem such as distinguishing the ones from the tens, I usually use one of the TaRL activities to help solve the problem, for an example; I draw the circle that we used in TaRL training, and it helped the students to apply different activities.”

Ms. Mona
First-grader instructor in Sohag Governorate

“When we first started to practice division, there was a girl who always say that she doesn’t like it, today as we are doing the evaluation, she was the first one to solve the sums, she also told us that she practices solving sums at home too.”

Ms. Asmaa
Atwab Common Elementary school

Program Performance

A Look at the past 2 years

58

Public and Community Schools covered

236

Educators trained

8707

Students impacted

4

Governorates impacted

Educate Me is supporting the scaling of TaRL program in Egypt through giving education practitioners and organization access to the program Arabic Material for Reading and Arithmetic. We also offer capacity building for education practitioners to be able to implement the program effectively. If you are interested to know more reach us on
tarl@educateme-foundation.org

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