Zambian Education School-based Training (ZEST)

The ZEST project will develop and roll out a high quality, school-based teacher professional development programme which will reach up to 4000 primary school teachers and leaders across Zambia’s Central Province. The aim of the project is to help teachers to develop their skills in active, learner-centred approaches to teaching. This project responds directly to the priorities of the Zambian Ministry of General Education to operationalise their current In-Service teacher development strategy. Teachers will be guided through a series of activities, which draw on existing Open Education Resources (OER), to provide teachers with meaningful and practical ideas to improve their classroom practice. Working with teachers, school leaders and education officials, the programme will then be made available online, giving it the potential to be scaled up across Zambia.