Education Prevails: Nigerian Teachers Discuss Challenges in COVID-19
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Key Information
As schools around the world remain closed amidst the coronavirus pandemic, the learning gap for students continues to grow. Throughout our series “Education Prevails,” we speak with women and men from across the sector to explore the challenges, innovations, and humanity involved in caring for children worldwide during COVID-19.
Head teachers Jamila Zakari, of the Dr. Ibrahim Tahir Primary School, and Murtala Yusuf, of Gzamo Primary School, work with USAID’s Northern Education Initiative Plus project and comment on COVID-19’s impact on their pupils and schools from firsthand experience.
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigeria
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2020 - 2020
Partner(s)
Not applicable or unknown
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownFunder(s)
Not applicable or unknown
COVID-19 Response
New for COVID-19Geographic Scope
NationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
UnknownAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Other
- Remote Learning
Quality
- School quality
- Teacher training
Skills
- Literacy
- Numeracy
Cross-cutting areas
- Community sensitization
- COVID-19 Response
- Emergencies and protracted crises
- Gender equality
Program participants
Target Audience(s)
Boys in school, Girls in school, Youth
Age
5 - 18
School Enrolment Status
All in school
School Level
- Lower primary
- Upper primary
- Lower secondary
- Upper secondary
Other populations reached
Not applicable or unknown
Participants include
Not applicable or unknown
Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
- Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
- Community mobilization
Curriculum/learning
- Gender-sensitive curricula
Educational Technology
- Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
- Digital learning materials/programs
Increased availability of learning materials
- Educational Radio or Television Programs
Life skills education
- Gender, rights and power
Mentoring/psychosocial support
- Teachers as mentors
Other
- Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)
School-related gender-based violence
- Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
Teaching
- Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)
Tutoring/strengthening academic skills
- Literacy - outside the classroom
- Numeracy - outside the classroom
Women's empowerment programs
- Advocacy/action
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
- Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
- Reduced absenteeism
- Reduced grade repetition
Cross-cutting goals
- Increased agency and empowerment
- More equitable gender attitudes and norms