“PTP IMPROVE QUALITY OF PR SCHOOLS IN TZ”

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Judith Mhina - MAELEZO

Education Quality Improvement Program (EQUIP) -TZ,  has donated Tshs. 421,300.000 for Parents Teachers Participation (PTP) activities in Tabora Region.

EQUIP- T has provided Tshs. 550,000 for improving pupils’ activities in each Primary School whereby in the region there 767 government primary schools.  

PTP, in Tabora Region has been established in every Primary School for linking the school and the community surrounding the school.

A coordinator of EQUIP –TZ, Ms Oliver Kapaya said the goal of this cooperation is to solve and overcome challenges in the school and society. The values underpinning the PTP include maintaining respect, to provide joint ethics in schools and society, to give advice and counselling to pupils and to improve pupil educational standards.

It also aims at following-up teachers and pupil attendance at school, to notice, identify and act on child abuse issues, to promote School Clubs and to sensitize the formation of lessons camps. This participatory cooperation strengthens the welfare of pupils in schools and encourages them to attend school.

The PTP also provides a forum for exchange of information, discussion of issues related to school matters, society and the nation at large.

Ms Oliver Kapaya was speaking at a two day workshop run by EQUIP Tanzania, at Urambo District Council hall on recently. The aim of the workshop was to empower District Education Officers to collect and disseminate best practices. Similarly Ward Education Officers reviewed interventions from the EQUIP TZ programme in Tabora Region and shared success stories as well as sought advice on further actions. 

The Parents and Teachers Participation – PTP is made up of two parents and one teacher in each class ensuring gender balance. In total one school will have 14 parents and 7 teachers.

Through this cooperation parents have come to realise the importance of their responsibility for their child’s attendance at school. Parents are now part and parcel of school, involved in decisions for improvement and welfare at the school. The most important outcome is that relationship has improved between the school and society, said Kapaya.

She added that there has been significant academic improvement with a massive increase of passes at standard 7 this year from last year. School children’s welfare especially health has improved.

Furthermore, these improvements have had an impact on the well being of the surrounding community, she said.

“I am sure you will agree with me, that this cooperation between Parents and Teachers is a useful model for our government schools, all over the country, for overcoming challenges facing our schools today,” she said.

Ms Kapaya said that she believed the PTP is one of the foremost successful activities for enabling change in the school. It generates self-reliance activities, social, health, business, environments, sports and ethical standards in schools.

Education Quality Improvement Programme - Tanzania is engaged in seven Regions: Dodoma, Kigoma, Lindi, Mara, Shinyanga, Simiyu and Tabora.