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 Improving Teacher Professional Skills
The trained trainers have conducted school-based trainings for teachers. The course content centers on classroom management, continuous assessment, and teaching and learning using locally available resources (TALULAR) among other topics. For the older teachers the sessions refresh them on what they studied several years ago and for the untrained teachers the sessions are an eye opener. "The sessions have indeed made me understand the concept of teaching. I now realize that there is a lot professional knowledge which I lacked, but now I see the way" commented Yohani Kumwenda, one of the untrained teachers, in Mzimba South. The intervention targets an estimated total of 6,300 teachers, including the untrained teachers, in the four districts.
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As making schools more effective is the cornerstone to achieving MESA's objectives, one of its major activities is to enhance teacher professional development. There are deliberate interventions that targeting trained as well as untrained teacher. MESA trained a core group of "trainers of trainers" and an extended district based support group of "trainers of trainers." The core group comprised MESA staff and teacher trainers while the support group comprised of Primary Education Advisors, Headteacher and 
Prior to the trainings, baseline data was collected using a 15% sample providing the basis for a needs assessment and focus the training content. The baseline data collection used the following tools: lesson observation, head teacher interview, Primary Education Advisor interview, untrained teacher interview, trained teacher interview, and community interview. The tools were designed to capture the strengths and shortcomings of practicing teachers in the four impact districts. Teachers were observed teaching English, Mathematics and the vernacular Chichewa in standards 3 and 6 and were rated on specific pedagogical competencies. Pupils were assessed in math and English.