About the Case Study

OLE Ghana has identified teacher supply and teacher quality as a critical area that needs to be addressed to compliment other efforts by other organizations and the government in the country's bid to achieve QUBE and EFA by 2015, hence its Learning Innovation Teams (LIT) Project.

 The LIT Project involves Mentors going to schools and working with teachers and students in their classrooms. Activity-oriented early primary level educational resources will be distributed and discussed.  This will be followed by teachers and students viewing videos of these resources in practice.  Teachers and students will then use the resources themselves to practice this approach.  This practice will be videoed and shown to the classes for comparison with the models.  Teachers and students will then agree upon goals for the next round of mentoring which will occur one or two months later.  The LIT project will determine the cost-effectiveness of this innovative approach and the feasibility of scaling this approach to thousands of untrained and minimally-trained teachers.

About the Presenter

Kofi Essien

Mr. Kofi Essien has served as a senior school administrator and a classroom practitioner for seventeen years. For two years he worked with the Global eSchools and Community Initiative (GeSCI), a UNICT Taskforce founded organization, as Ghana Country Programme analyst. The programme was based in the Ministry of Education and provided strategic advice on the government's ICT in education policies and deployment plans. He has worked with and trained teachers in 21st century teaching through the World Links project, the Fiankoma project and the INTEL Teach programme.

 He holds a BA degree from the University of Ghana, Legon, a post graduate diploma in Education from the University of Cape Coast, a post graduate certificate in Project Management, Comparative Education and Education Research from University of Copenhagen Denmark.  He is currently completing his Masters in Information and Communication Technology in Education at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.