When you help train a teacher, and that teacher goes on to train even more teachers, you set off a ripple effect that lasts for years to come. We celebrated this recently in Liberia, where 71 teachers’ college instructors were formally recognized for strengthening teacher training as part of the Teaching and Learning in Fragile Contexts (TLFC) project.
These are the educators who train Liberia’s future teachers. At six institutions across the country, including Bomi Community College, Margibi University, Kakata Rural Teacher Training Institute, United Methodist University, David A. Straz-Sinje Technical and Vocational College, and Carver Christian University, they taught pre-service teachers, then mentored and coached as those students stepped into real classrooms for the first time. Their ideas and feedback also helped shape and improve the project along the way.
A special group of six teachers were honored further as TLFC Network Leaders, educators who went a step beyond their own classrooms to build bridges between institutions, helping trainers learn from one another instead of working in isolation.
This recognition marked the closing of the TLFC project, a four-year initiative supported by Global Affairs Canada and driven by donors like you, built to strengthen literacy and how it is taught. Independent evaluations are currently underway, and we can’t wait to share more about the life-changing impact of the project on student learning in the coming months.
One trained teacher educator can shape hundreds of future teachers. Those teachers go on to shape thousands of children learning to read for the first time.
When you support CODE, you’re investing in the people who train the trainers, strengthening a system that will keep paying forward long after this project has ended. It’s easy to picture education funding reaching a single classroom. This is a reminder that your support reaches much further than that.
Thank you for making moments like this one in Monrovia possible.