Description: For several years Building Tomorrow has been recruiting talented young adults to take part in a two-year Fellowship Program. During the Fellowship, they provide support to Building Tomorrow’s primary schools in rural, hard-to-reach communities by serving as a champion and coach for school actors to improve education service delivery, quality and access. Their mandate is to assist in boosting student and teacher attendance, student learning outcomes and the school’s management and administration while also engaging with parents to foster a supportive, involved and informed school community.

The baseline evaluation Ichuli conducted of Building Tomorrow’s program in 2017 showed that the training Fellows received lacked information critical for helping them to properly execute their expected tasks, especially around supporting a quality education environment at the school. Ichuli engaged with Building Tomorrow to plan and develop a standardized and updated training guide to better induct and support Fellows throughout the program. Modules within the training guide include, among others:

1. School leadership, management and development
2. Creating a safe, non-violent school environment
3. Inclusive education, with a particular focus on including children with intellectual disabilities
4. Enrolling out-of-school-children
5. Early Childhood Education
6. Teaching at the Right Level remedial literacy and numeracy instruction
7. Financial literacy and social entrepreneurship
8. Classroom management and culture

All modules were written using interactive and participant-centered methodologies, including role plays, case studies, discussions, presentations, debates and games. The curriculum also included monitoring and evaluation activities for measuring the knowledge and skills Fellows took from each phase of training, as well as follow-up actions to track and assess their implementation of key behaviors and activities in schools.