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Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, TESSA, is a collaborative network to help you improve your practice as a teacher or teacher educator. We provide free, quality resources that support your national curriculum and can help you plan lessons that engage, involve and inspire.

Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA)

Resources

You can filter the TESSA resources by language and country to access the library most appropriate for you. We provide free, open educational resources (OER) that support national curricula and provide examples of participatory pedagogy. Resources are available in 4 language and multiple country versions.

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Curriculum Frameworks
Key Resources: Effective teaching approaches
Introducing the TESSA Key Resources
Key resource: Assessing learning
Key Resource: Using mind maps and brainstorming to explore ideas
Key Resource: Being a resourceful teacher in challenging circumstances
Key Resource: Using explaining and demonstrating to assist learning
Key Resource: Using group work in your classroom
Key Resource: Using investigations in the classroom
Key Resource: Tools for planning and carrying out investigations in Science
Key Resource: Working with large classes
Key Resource: Using the local community/environment as a resource
Key Resource: Planning and preparing your lessons
Key Resource: Using questioning to promote thinking
Key Resource: Researching in the classroom
Key Resource: Using role play/dialogue/drama in the classroom
Key Resource: Using storytelling in the classroom
Key Resource: Using new technologies
Key Resource: Working with multigrade classes
Primary: Life skills
Primary: Numeracy
Primary: Literacy
Primary: Social studies and the arts
Primary: Science
Secondary: Science
Handbooks and toolkits
Additional resources: Posters
Additional resources: Teaching packs
Additional resources: Audio
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