Teacher Training Program

If Africa is to gain its rightful place in the global knowledge economy and secure its economic future, significant focus must be put on increasing the quality of math and science teaching. Essential to this focus is a holistic and comprehensive approach that takes into account service delivery, partnerships with existing educational systems and the strengthening of the policy environment that supports teachers and STEM education. An effective teacher training initiative is one of the best ways to effect positive and lasting behavioural change that will contribute to an increased uptake in mathematics and sciences at a national level. The AIMS Teacher Training Program aims at raising the quality of mathematics and science education at the secondary level in Cameroon by providing teacher training and professional development courses, promoting best practices and distributing high-quality classroom resources to in-service and pre-service teachers. These efforts to improve STEM teaching will increase the transition of students to tertiary STEM education.

How does TTP train?

The Master Trainers training workshop:

Based on a cascade training model, we reinforce the pedagogic expertise of all mathematics lecturers in the 3 Higher Teacher Training Colleges (HTTC) (Yaoundé, Bambili and Maroua), the Higher Technical Teacher Training College (HTTTC) of Kumba, and of Pedagogic Inspectors for Mathematics. Those trained constitute the group of master trainers, who will in turn train the in-service mathematics. Till date,  89 Master trainers have been trained.

The In-service teacher training workshop: 

The pre-service teacher training workshop

This seminar is designed to complement the knowledge and skills of pre-service teachers so that they go to the field with their mind set for change, and be agents of change in the philosophy of TTP which is summarized as “Learning and Teaching Mathematics Differently”.

The seminar spans over a 3-day workshop co-organized by AIMS TTP, the Ministry of Secondary Education (MINESEC) and the concerned HTTCs, for all the final year Pre-service teachers at each of the three HTTCs (Bamenda, Maroua and Yaoundé).

Workshop Content

• This workshop is facilitated by assigned Master Trainers and TTP staff on nine (09) training units
  extracted from four (4) training modules of the TTP curriculum:
  Module 2: Planning of pedagogical activities
  Training Units:
  – Exploitation of pedagogic documents
  – Qualities of a good mathematics lesson
  Module 3: Teaching and learning of Mathematics,
  Training units:
  – Lesson Preparation and Delivery,
  – Conception and use of activities in the Mathematics lesson,
  – Gender Responsive Pedagogy and inclusive education in the mathematics classroom.
  Module 5: Professional insertion
  Training Units:
  – The management of mathematics as a subject
  – Community of Teachers
  – Different school councils
  Module 4: Mathematical thinking and problem solving
  Training Unit:

– Mathematical thinking and problem solving

Principal Sensitization workshop

The purpose of this workshop is to educate the Principals and delegates on the necessary support to be given to mathematics teachers.

This  workshop  is a one  day face-to-face practical workshop with practical activities designed to bridge theory with reality, facilitated by assigned Facilitators and TTP staff.

Workshop Content

The workshop sessions are facilitated by selected Facilitators and are organized, moderated, and supervised by TTP staff. The seminar focused on the following four (4) Modules:

1. AIMS in brief.
2. Pedagogic and administrative duties of teachers, principals and inspectors.
3. Exploitations des documents pedagogiques
4. Interet des mathematiques / why mathematics will always be relevant.