A step closer to bridging systemic inequity

Project Classroom Volta

Unequal educational opportunities between the privileged and underprivileged.

Empirical evidence has demonstrated that the use of teaching and learning materials significantly improves the academic performance of students (Adalikwa and Iorkpilgh, 2013; Yara, 2010). Hands-on experience proves to be a catalyst for growing students’ interest in academic work (Holstermann, 2010).

However, students in underserved schools like Avenorfeme, Sremanu, Metrikasa, Posmonou, Afiadanyigbe, Afatsagleve, Abordahe, Atanve, Akpokope, Takuve, Yevi and Berekuso JHS do not have access to these teaching and learning materials hence they are unable to compete globally even with children in well-resourced schools in Ghana.

 

Project Classroom seeks to bridge such educational inequity by sourcing for curriculum-based teaching and learning materials (CBTLMs) beginning with materials for Teach For Ghana

We seek to do this by:

1. Sourcing for CBTLMs from well-endowed schools who may have excess or recycled supplies of these TLM’s
2. Apply for funds and or grants to construct and or purchase CBTLMs.
3. Participate in Project Based Learning Training and Limited Resource Setting Teacher training.

A Teach for Ghana fellow teaching at one of our model schools in the Volta region, challenges notwithstanding.

Goal

By September 2018, we look to source for curriculum-based teaching and learning materials for Science classrooms in Avernofeme Zion J.H.S. in the Volta region supporting 70 students in quality academic work.

Vision

One day all children in Teach for Ghana classrooms will have access to curriculum-based science teaching and learning materials.

Mission

To make curriculum-based science teaching and learning materials available to all science classrooms in underserved communities in Ghana where Teach for Ghana impacts.

Educational equity should be the focus of well-meaning individuals, governmental and non-governmental organizations, philanthropists, institutions, and governing bodies on the international front if we are to empower the young generation for the future. Kindly Join us in this drive of ensuring that Children in Ghana are not disqualified on the basis of unequal opportunities which they are not responsible for creating but poor leadership before them.

Some students captured in the joy of being in a Teach for Ghana classroom, their challenges notwithstanding.

Life is twist and turns, today we might be on the privileged divide of educational inequity, tomorrow we might find ourselves somewhere else, Giftivism employs us to reach out to the next Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Kwame Despite, Jacob Francis Allotey, Prof Frimpong Manso, Daniel Dotse, Carolina Ramirez, Nour Ghaddar, Pierina Ladzekpo, Michael Sample, Meredith Ross and Kendall Davis who finds him or herself in an underserved school in Ghana.