Primary Purpose: Young 1ove is committed to ensuring that youth in Botswana are equipped with proven life-saving information. We believe that the ability to count and grasp basic numerical concepts is an essential skillset that has ramifications on health, poverty and well-being. We are looking to engage facilitators to teach basic numeracy skills to school students in Standards 4 & 5 in South East, Kgatleng and Chobe. Facilitators will be trained on the program assessment tools, curriculum, and operations and will implement the program over the course of seven months.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
Facilitators will be responsible for implementing Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) at quality:
· Attend 10-day training prior to implementation
· Assess student numeracy skills with TaRL levelling tool at baseline, midline, and endline.
· Develop detailed daily lesson plans with targeted objectives and activities.
· Facilitate high-energy 1-hour curriculum on basic numeracy to Standards 4 & 5 students for over the course of 7-9 weeks.
· Target and advance student learning with learner-centered activities and teaching techniques.
· Engage in daily and weekly reflections with fellow facilitators and mentors.
Qualifications and characteristics:
· Youth between age 20 and 35 years with minimum of a Junior Certificate qualification, up to Diploma and Degree qualification.
· Preferred experience in educational environments facilitating, teaching, lesson planning, tutoring numeracy.
· Facilitators will be selected from implementing regions. Applicants must have accommodation in the selected school districts.
· Familiarity and ease working with children.
· Strong verbal and written communication skills in English and Setswana.
· Ability to develop strong and cooperative working relationships with students, teachers, local community-based stakeholders and members of the community.
· Demonstrate a proactive approach to self-development as well as strive to link theory with practice.
· In accordance with the Young 1ove Child Protection Policy, a police background check is compulsory.
We deliver programs by youth for youth. It is not enough for proven messages to exist and be delivered. They have be delivered right. To this end, Young 1ove deploys an army of youthful, energetic local facilitators. This approach ensures that when our messages are delivered, they are heard, credible, listened to, intenalized and remembered. Our target audience is youth, the future. We believe when it comes to sexual health, youth need to be reached out to by youth. Our delivery approach ensures that our proven messages have maximum traction and impact.
Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL), an approach pioneered by Indian NGO Pratham, targets the root of the learning crisis by transforming the structures that lead to it. The approach works by dividing children (generally in Grades 3 to 5) into groups based on learning needs rather than age or grade; dedicating time to basic skills rather than focusing solely on the curriculum; and regularly assessing student performance, rather than relying only on end-of-year examinations.