Datos clave
- Fechas
- 19–22 abr 2027 (4 días)
- Dónde
- Dakar, Senegal
- Tarifa por participante
- 1.850 £ (GBP)
- Pago
- Mediante factura y transferencia bancaria
- Cierre de inscripciones
- 20 Mar 2027
- Certificado
- Certificado de finalización
- Opción interna
- Impártalo para su equipo, en sus fechas
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Descripción del programa
This four-day professional programme equips education leaders with technical tools to advance foundational reading outcomes in primary classrooms. Grounded in evidence-based early grade literacy practices, the curriculum addresses the transition from theoretical teacher instruction to effective classroom pedagogy. Participants analyse systemic bottlenecks in reading acquisition, focusing on phonological awareness, decoding, vocabulary acquisition, and reading comprehension. By establishing rigorous instructional standards, the course prepares educators to lead systemic pedagogical reforms across public basic education systems.
The programme provides practical frameworks for instructional coaching, classroom observation, and formative learning evaluation. Education officers will design objective monitoring instruments that guide supportive supervision rather than punitive inspection. Through structured modules, attendees evaluate decodable readers, levelled texts, and learning material distribution mechanisms to guarantee equitable resource allocation. The curriculum also details the architecture of teacher continuous professional development, ensuring school-level peer learning groups and subject-specific mentoring programmes function sustainably within existing ministerial governance structures.
Delivered in Dakar, this course facilitates regional peer review and technical exchange among education specialists addressing similar literacy challenges across West Africa. Participants work through real-world operational scenarios to formulate actionable coaching plans that improve instructional time on task and student engagement. By completing this training, education practitioners gain the competencies required to manage, execute, and monitor institutional reading interventions funded through national budgets and major international development financing mechanisms.
Basic education systems across West Africa face critical challenges in ensuring that children achieve foundational reading competencies in the early grades. Addressing learning poverty requires immediate investment in teacher coaching and pedagogical oversight, which directly supports the instructional quality objectives of initiatives such as the Togo Improving Quality and Equity of Basic Education Project. Without structured mentoring protocols, targeted formative assessments, and reliable teaching material supply lines, curricular reforms fail to translate into classroom-level gains. Strengthening the technical capacity of supervisory personnel now ensures that investments in curriculum and teacher development yield measurable learning improvements.
Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Dakar, Senegal, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.
The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability
- Core components of early literacy: phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
- Assessing language of instruction policies and early grade reading transition models
- Aligning national reading curricula with evidence-based classroom pedagogical routines
- Reviewing the architecture and metrics of Early Grade Reading Assessments (EGRA)
- Establishing baseline expectations for time on task and daily instructional reading routines
- Designing objective, criterion-referenced classroom observation rubrics for reading lessons
- Techniques for conducting non-evaluative, supportive supervisory visits in primary schools
- Developing classroom-level formative assessment checks and running records for reading teachers
- Planificación y gestión de servicios
- Mejora de la calidad y normas
- Recursos humanos y planificación de la fuerza laboral
- Financiación y presupuestación de los servicios
It is designed for pedagogical inspectors and regional education supervisors, teacher training college faculty and instructional coaches, basic education curriculum specialists and developers and others who want practical, current skills in health, education and social services.
The Growing Importance of Early Grade Literacy Teacher Mentoring and Classroom Pedagogy in Dakar
Los servicios de salud, educación y sociales llegan directamente a las personas, y su calidad depende de la planificación, la gestión y el uso de la evidencia. Los gobiernos y los socios esperan mejores resultados con presupuestos limitados.
Los líderes y directivos de estos sectores afrontan una demanda creciente, escasez de personal y nuevas tecnologías. Unas competencias de gestión sólidas ayudan a las instituciones a planificar los servicios, utilizar bien los recursos y demostrar resultados.
Las organizaciones necesitan cada vez más profesionales capaces de:
- Planificar y gestionar los servicios para responder a la demanda
- Mejorar la calidad conforme a las normas
- Gestionar el personal y los recursos con eficacia
- Utilizar los datos para orientar las decisiones
- Trabajar con comunidades y socios
Unos sistemas sólidos de salud, educación y servicios sociales ayudan a las organizaciones a:
- Prestar mejores servicios a más personas
- Utilizar los presupuestos y el personal con eficiencia
- Cumplir las normas de calidad
- Demostrar resultados al gobierno y a los socios
This Early Grade Literacy Teacher Mentoring and Classroom Pedagogy in Dakar programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.
Who Should Attend This Early Grade Literacy Teacher Mentoring and Classroom Pedagogy in Dakar Training?
Este programa está dirigido a:
- Pedagogical inspectors and regional education supervisors
- Teacher training college faculty and instructional coaches
- Basic education curriculum specialists and developers
- Ministry of Education foundational learning technical working group members
- Project Implementation Unit education specialists managing basic education portfolios
- Primary education directors and district pedagogical advisors
- Continuous professional development coordinators for basic schools
- Education quality assurance and school standards officers
- Donor-financed project officers supporting reading and pedagogy interventions
- Gestores y administradores de servicios
- Directores y altos funcionarios
- Responsables de planificación y políticas
El programa es adecuado tanto para profesionales con experiencia como para quienes asumen nuevas responsabilidades. Se fomentan los grupos que mezclan instituciones y países, porque los participantes aprenden mucho de la experiencia de los demás.
Marque lo que su equipo necesita ser capaz de hacer.
Early Grade Literacy Teacher Mentoring and Classroom Pedagogy in Dakar Training Objectives
Upon successful completion of this Early Grade Literacy Teacher Mentoring and Classroom Pedagogy in Dakar Training, participants will be able to:
- Design structured teacher mentoring frameworks tailored to early grade literacy instruction
- Develop formative classroom reading assessment tools to track foundational skill acquisition
- Construct standardised pedagogical observation instruments to evaluate reading instruction fidelity
- Formulate institutional continuous professional development plans for primary school educators
- Establish tracking and distribution strategies for decodable readers and literacy learning materials
- Apply international diagnostic metrics such as Early Grade Reading Assessment principles to routine supervisory visits
- Produce operational coaching action plans to institutionalise school-based pedagogical support
- Explicar los principales desafíos de su sector
- Planificar servicios acordes con la demanda y los recursos
- Aplicar métodos de mejora de la calidad
Cada objetivo se practica durante el programa mediante ejercicios, casos o trabajo en grupo, de modo que los participantes salgan siendo capaces de hacerlo, no solo de describirlo.
Contenido y estructura del programa
- Core components of early literacy: phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
- Assessing language of instruction policies and early grade reading transition models
- Aligning national reading curricula with evidence-based classroom pedagogical routines
- Reviewing the architecture and metrics of Early Grade Reading Assessments (EGRA)
- Establishing baseline expectations for time on task and daily instructional reading routines
- Designing objective, criterion-referenced classroom observation rubrics for reading lessons
- Techniques for conducting non-evaluative, supportive supervisory visits in primary schools
- Developing classroom-level formative assessment checks and running records for reading teachers
- Mitigating observer bias during pedagogical inspections using standard scoring guidelines
- Practical simulation: Conducting a video-based literacy lesson observation and diagnostic scoring
- Structuring reflective pre-observation and post-observation feedback conferences with teachers
- Establishing school-based professional learning communities and peer-to-peer mentoring circles
- Designing continuous professional development modules linked directly to assessed teacher needs
- Addressing remedial instruction strategies for pupils falling behind foundational reading benchmarks
- Drafting a sub-national teacher mentoring framework adapted to rural and under-resourced schools
- Selecting and evaluating decodable readers, big books, and supplementary literacy materials
- Formulating last-mile learning material distribution plans and classroom inventory systems
- Setting up supervisory data dashboards to track teacher pedagogical fidelity across districts
- Linking coaching outputs to donor-financed project indicators and ministerial monitoring frameworks
- Final presentation and peer validation of participant-developed literacy mentoring strategies
Contenido completo día a día
El programa dura 4 días. Cada jornada combina aportaciones de expertos, trabajo práctico y un taller o estudio de caso final:
- First Day: Foundations of Early Grade Reading and Instructional Core Competencies
- Second Day: Classroom Observation Instruments and Formative Reading Assessments
- Third Day: Instructional Coaching Protocols and Teacher Continuous Professional Development
- Fourth Day: Learning Material Logistics, Monitoring, and Institutional Implementation
Contenido completo día a día
First Day | Foundations of Early Grade Reading and Instructional Core Competencies
- Core components of early literacy: phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
- Assessing language of instruction policies and early grade reading transition models
- Aligning national reading curricula with evidence-based classroom pedagogical routines
- Reviewing the architecture and metrics of Early Grade Reading Assessments (EGRA)
- Establishing baseline expectations for time on task and daily instructional reading routines
Workshop: Foundations of Early Grade Reading and Instructional Core Competencies: Applying It to Your Institution
Trabajando en grupos pequeños, los participantes aplican los métodos del día a ejemplos de sus propias instituciones y acuerdan los siguientes pasos prácticos.
Second Day | Classroom Observation Instruments and Formative Reading Assessments
- Designing objective, criterion-referenced classroom observation rubrics for reading lessons
- Techniques for conducting non-evaluative, supportive supervisory visits in primary schools
- Developing classroom-level formative assessment checks and running records for reading teachers
- Mitigating observer bias during pedagogical inspections using standard scoring guidelines
- Practical simulation: Conducting a video-based literacy lesson observation and diagnostic scoring
Workshop: Classroom Observation Instruments and Formative Reading Assessments: Applying It to Your Institution
Trabajando en grupos pequeños, los participantes aplican los métodos del día a ejemplos de sus propias instituciones y acuerdan los siguientes pasos prácticos.
Third Day | Instructional Coaching Protocols and Teacher Continuous Professional Development
- Structuring reflective pre-observation and post-observation feedback conferences with teachers
- Establishing school-based professional learning communities and peer-to-peer mentoring circles
- Designing continuous professional development modules linked directly to assessed teacher needs
- Addressing remedial instruction strategies for pupils falling behind foundational reading benchmarks
- Drafting a sub-national teacher mentoring framework adapted to rural and under-resourced schools
Case Study: Instructional Coaching Protocols and Teacher Continuous Professional Development in Practice
Los participantes analizan un caso realista, comparan las decisiones tomadas con las buenas prácticas y extraen lecciones que pueden aplicar en su propio contexto.
Fourth Day | Learning Material Logistics, Monitoring, and Institutional Implementation
- Selecting and evaluating decodable readers, big books, and supplementary literacy materials
- Formulating last-mile learning material distribution plans and classroom inventory systems
- Setting up supervisory data dashboards to track teacher pedagogical fidelity across districts
- Linking coaching outputs to donor-financed project indicators and ministerial monitoring frameworks
- Final presentation and peer validation of participant-developed literacy mentoring strategies
Capstone Exercise: Early Grade Literacy Teacher Mentoring and Classroom Pedagogy in Dakar Action Plan for Your Institution
Los participantes integran lo aprendido durante la semana en un plan de acción para su propia institución, con prioridades, responsables y primeros pasos, y lo presentan para recibir comentarios de sus pares y de los facilitadores.
- Recopilar
- Depurar
- Almacenar
- Analizar
- Decidir
Early Grade Literacy Teacher Mentoring and Classroom Pedagogy in Dakar Training Methodology
The training employs a participatory, practitioner-centred methodology using operational simulations, collaborative instrument design, and diagnostic case studies. Participants review real-world classroom lesson recordings, evaluate sample curricula against international reading standards, and practice structured coaching conversations. Daily working groups construct actionable supervisory tools tailored to national educational contexts. Facilitators guide practical critique sessions to ensure that observation forms, continuous professional development plans, and monitoring protocols can be immediately deployed within public inspection systems and donor-assisted education programmes.
El programa combina:
- Sesiones dirigidas por expertos sobre la práctica actual
- Estudios de caso regionales e internacionales
- Trabajo en grupo y ejercicios prácticos
- Simulaciones y juegos de rol cuando proceda
- Análisis de los desafíos propios de los participantes
- Aprendizaje entre pares de distintas instituciones y países
- Herramientas y plantillas prácticas para llevar al trabajo
- Reflexión diaria y planificación de acciones
Antes del programa, una breve evaluación previa ayuda a los facilitadores a comprender la función y las prioridades de cada participante, para adaptar los ejemplos y ejercicios al grupo. Cada jornada termina con una breve reflexión en la que los participantes anotan lo que aplicarán en su trabajo.
Resultados esperados
Upon completion of this Early Grade Literacy Teacher Mentoring and Classroom Pedagogy in Dakar Training, participants will be able to:
- Proficiency in constructing reliable classroom observation rubrics for early grade reading lessons
- Capability to institute structured post-observation coaching cycles that enhance teacher pedagogical practice
- Mastery in designing low-cost, teacher-administered formative assessments for reading fluency and comprehension
- Capacity to operationalise school-based continuous professional development networks and peer learning groups
- Competency in drafting equitable distribution and tracking systems for early grade literacy textbooks and decodable readers
- Validated operational plans to support the pedagogical and supervisory goals of national basic education projects
- Planificar los servicios para responder a la demanda
- Mejorar la calidad conforme a las normas
Los participantes se marchan con un plan de acción personal y herramientas prácticas que pueden utilizar en su institución desde la primera semana de regreso. Las instituciones que envían a varios participantes pueden aprovechar el programa para acordar métodos y plantillas comunes entre equipos, lo que facilita mantener las mejoras.
1.850 £ por participante · factura y transferencia bancaria · descuento para grupos de 5 o más personas
Cinco o más personas de una misma organización: solicite la tarifa de grupo al pedir la factura.
Diez o más: una versión interna para su institución puede costar menos por persona. Solicite un presupuesto para una formación interna.
Registration closes in 127 days (20 Mar 2027)
Institutional Application of Early Grade Literacy Teacher Mentoring and Classroom Pedagogy in Dakar Training
Este programa ayuda a las organizaciones a fortalecer:
- Planificación de servicios
- Gestión de la calidad
- Gestión de la fuerza laboral
- Uso de los datos
- Alianzas
Los participantes regresan con herramientas prácticas para mejorar:
- Planes de servicio
- Revisiones de calidad
- Planes de personal
- Informes de desempeño
- Planificación del abastecimiento
El programa está concebido para que el aprendizaje pase del aula a la institución. Siempre que es posible, los participantes trabajan con sus propios procesos y documentos, y se marchan con un plan de acción que sus responsables pueden revisar y respaldar.
Pertinencia y aplicación regionales
Europa
Las instituciones europeas aplican la salud, la educación y los servicios sociales dentro de marcos normativos detallados y agendas de reforma. Los participantes de Europa pueden comparar su práctica con la de colegas de otras regiones y comprobar cómo funcionan los métodos consolidados en condiciones diferentes.
África
En toda África, los ministerios, organismos y equipos de proyecto que trabajan en salud, educación y servicios sociales operan cada vez más junto a programas financiados por donantes que exigen sistemas y evidencias claros. El programa ayuda a los participantes a adaptar las buenas prácticas a las instituciones y los recursos con los que trabajan.
Oriente Medio
En Oriente Medio, las estrategias nacionales de desarrollo y los planes de diversificación imponen exigencias crecientes a la salud, la educación y los servicios sociales. Los participantes estudian cómo desarrollar dentro de los organismos públicos y las empresas las capacidades que estos planes requieren.
Asia
Las instituciones de toda Asia combinan un rápido crecimiento con ambiciosos programas de modernización. Los participantes de Asia pueden compartir su experiencia en el escalamiento rápido de sistemas y conocer los enfoques utilizados en otros lugares.
Pacífico
Los pequeños Estados insulares y del Pacífico afrontan limitaciones particulares de tamaño, distancia y capacidad. El programa destaca enfoques prácticos y proporcionados en materia de salud, educación y servicios sociales, adecuados para instituciones más pequeñas.
Holding the programme in Dakar, Senegal brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how health, education and social services is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.
Host Country Profile – Senegal
Training programmes and study tours in Dakar suit professionals, project teams, and civil servants seeking exposure to West African governance, regional trade, and infrastructure development.
Estudiar fuera de su país ofrece a los participantes tiempo para concentrarse, una mirada nueva sobre su propia institución y la oportunidad de crear una red con colegas de otros países.
Early Grade Literacy Teacher Mentoring and Classroom Pedagogy in Dakar Training Deliverables
Los participantes reciben apoyo antes, durante y después del programa, de modo que la preparación, el aprendizaje y el seguimiento formen una experiencia continua.
Antes del programa
- Evaluación previa del participante
- Early Grade Literacy Teacher Mentoring and Classroom Pedagogy in Dakar Readiness Assessment
- Early Grade Literacy Teacher Mentoring and Classroom Pedagogy in Dakar Resource Pack
- Materiales de lectura preparatoria
- Apoyo y asesoramiento gratuitos para el visado
Durante el programa
- Recogida en el aeropuerto y asistencia de bienvenida
- Alojamiento con desayuno
- Cena de bienvenida y networking
- Kit de formación de Risalat (bolsa, botella, taza, camiseta, gorra, funda de pasaporte, bolígrafos, cuaderno, imán y llavero)
- Comprehensive Early Grade Literacy Teacher Mentoring and Classroom Pedagogy in Dakar Training Manual
- Plantilla de planificación de servicios
- Plantilla de plan de mejora de la calidad
- Plantilla de planificación de personal
- Plantilla de panel de desempeño
- Talleres prácticos y simulaciones
- Debates en grupo y aprendizaje entre pares
- Almuerzo y refrigerios diarios
- Acceso completo a las instalaciones de la sede de formación
- Mini Pad / tableta con materiales didácticos digitales
- Visita de campo (cuando proceda)
- Recorrido turístico por la ciudad
Después del programa
- Certificado de finalización
- Reconocimiento a la participación en programas de Risalat
- Materiales de consulta posteriores a la formación
- Lista de verificación para la revisión de servicios
- Hoja de seguimiento de mejoras
- Apoyo posterior a la formación y orientación de seguimiento
- Informe del programa
Las instituciones también pueden solicitar una versión interna de este programa adaptada a sus necesidades, impartida en sus instalaciones o en línea. Solicitar una propuesta.
Common Challenges in Early Grade Literacy Teacher Mentoring and Classroom Pedagogy in Dakar, And How This Training Helps
¿Cómo pueden las instituciones planificar y gestionar los servicios para atender la demanda?
The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Foundations of Early Grade Reading and Instructional Core Competencies), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.
¿Cómo pueden las instituciones mejorar la calidad con respecto a las normas?
The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Classroom Observation Instruments and Formative Reading Assessments), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.
¿Cómo pueden las instituciones gestionar el personal y los recursos de forma eficaz?
The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Instructional Coaching Protocols and Teacher Continuous Professional Development), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.
¿Cómo pueden las instituciones utilizar los datos para orientar sus decisiones?
The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Learning Material Logistics, Monitoring, and Institutional Implementation), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.
¿Cómo pueden las instituciones trabajar con las comunidades y los socios?
The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Foundations of Early Grade Reading and Instructional Core Competencies), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.
Preguntas frecuentes
When and where does the Early Grade Literacy Teacher Mentoring and Classroom Pedagogy in Dakar programme take place?
It runs from 19 Apr 2027 to 22 Apr 2027, in Dakar, Senegal. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.
¿Quién debería asistir?
The programme is designed for pedagogical inspectors and regional education supervisors, teacher training college faculty and instructional coaches, basic education curriculum specialists and developers, ministry of Education foundational learning technical working group members, and others who want practical skills in health, education and social services.
¿Recibiré un certificado?
Sí. Los participantes que completan el programa reciben un Certificado de finalización de Risalat Consultants International.
¿Puede impartirse este programa solo para nuestra institución?
Sí. Podemos impartir una versión interna a medida en sus instalaciones, en otra ciudad o en línea, construida en torno a sus propios casos. Utilice la solicitud de propuesta de esta página.
¿Necesito experiencia previa en salud, educación y servicios sociales?
No se requiere formación especializada más allá de la experiencia en un puesto afín. Una breve evaluación previa ayuda a los facilitadores a adaptar las sesiones al grupo.
Who Will Deliver This Programme
Each date is delivered by a team assigned from Risalat's expert network for this subject. For this programme we assign:
How we choose them: Experience in the region of the participants or comparable settings; Command of the financier rules that apply (World Bank, ADB, AfDB, EU, UN) where relevant; Delivery in English; other languages on request for in-house groups; No conflict of interest with participants' institutions.
Names and short CVs of the assigned experts are shared with registered participants and sponsoring organisations before the programme, on request. Are you an expert in this subject? Join our expert network.
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Why Dakar for this programme
Dakar serves as a major diplomatic and administrative hub in West Africa, hosting regional bodies such as the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) and various United Nations agencies. Participants can observe major infrastructure projects, including the Port of Dakar and the Regional Express Train (TER). The city is accessible via direct international flights from across Africa, Europe, and North America.
The Early Grade Literacy Teacher Mentoring and Classroom Pedagogy in Dakar programme in April 2027 brings together officials and professionals from across the Africa region and beyond. Sessions combine short inputs, case studies and group work on participants' own files, and the city's institutions can be added as a study visit on request.
Getting there: Blaise Diagne International (DSS).
Compruebe si necesita visado con el Verificador de visados gratuito y solicite una carta de invitación una vez inscrito.
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