By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi –
A total of 37 pupils who were out-of-school were enrolled at the Central Primary School, Misau in Misau Local Government Area of Bauchi State following the introduction of a new system called “Teaching at the Right Level”.
The Director, School Services, Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board, Korijo Umar, stated this in an interview with journalists during a media parley in Misau LGA.
Umar, who explained that the 37 children returned to school are made up of 20 males and 17 females, commended the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, for supporting the education system through innovations introduced to improve pupil enrollment.
He said that with the introduction of the TaRL approach to teaching and learning, pupils have created more interest in learning because of its simplicity.
According to him, without the political will of the Governor, the success recorded since the introduction of the approach will not have been possible.
He assured that SUBEB would intensify supervision, monitoring and evaluation to ensure that the approach achieves its objectives.
Speaking earlier during the parley, the Education Secretary of Misau LGEA, Alhaji Abdul said that the new approach to teaching and learning has positively improved the education system of the area.
While explaining the TaRL approach to learning and teaching, UNICEF Education Specialist, Abdulraham Ibrahim, said that TaRL was introduced in 2018 in Borno state to augment what is done in the schools considering the insurgency that kept children out of school.
He said that it was introduced in four LGAs of Bauchi State in order to check issues of out of school children in Alkaleri, Ningi, Zaki and Misau LGAs stressing that the essence is to give the children basic numeracy activities.
NATIONAL ACCORD reports that TaRL, introduced in May, 2023 by the United Nations Children Fund, Bauchi Field Office in conjunction with the Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board, was designed as a special education system to attract out-of-school children to the classroom.
The children, irrespective of the class from which they stopped going to school, are put together in one classroom and taught basic education.
The Teachers have been trained on how to handle the teaching methods which are basically the same, using objects that depict what they have been taught so that it will sink into their heads.
Both pupils and teachers are made to sit on the bare floor in a circle as the lesson is going on due to what is said to be the adaptation of what they do while hawking around.
One of the designated schools for the programme is the Central Primary School, Misau, where a bloc of classrooms has been set aside for the teaching and learning for out of school children who chose to return to school.
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