Welcome to
TEACH Rwanda

TEACH Rwanda has high standards for its schools, including:

 

- 20 children per pre-primary classroom

- 2 Rwandan teachers in each preschool classroom

- up to 24 children with one Rwandan teacher in each primary classroom

- abundant hands-on learning materials including fiction and nonfiction books for children

- evidence-based, respectful teaching practices

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Only those schools that have a TEACH Rwanda record of continuous quality improvements can become sites for teachers from around the country—and around the world—to discover how evidence-based practices can be implemented in ways that demonstrate respect for Rwanda's CBC, culture, AND reflect current child development research about the values of learning through play and projects.

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Our teachers are dedicated, enthusiastic professionals who continue to learn as TEACH Rwanda staff and volunteers mentor them. Many arrived at early childhood education through other fields, found their work rewarding, and are becoming TEACH Rwanda leaders themselves!

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What about the children? They are thriving! They rush into school each day and are filled with joy! Their elaborate block constructions, intricate drawings, detailed stories, delightful pretend play scenarios, compelling projects, and engagement in reenacting children's literature reveal how a Rwandan, integrated, enriched, competency-based curriculum is succeeding!

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And the families? They are thrilled! And recognize what a difference TEACH Rwanda has made in their children's lives. Families frequently tell us that neighbors' children who are far older do not have the skills that children in TEACH Rwanda schools have: cognitive, language/literacy, math, physical, social, and personal.

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"What are you doing to my daughter?" asked the father of a girl then in P1. "At home every day she is writing, organizing things, doing calculation in math: addition, subtraction. She's independent." The journals he got for her to write in are full. "She is like a genius!"