Supporting teachers through targeted in-person visits and remote mentoring: evidence from TaRL in Cote d'Ivoire

Over the last three decades, many developing countries have made tremendous progress in school enrollment. However, students in those countries sometimes very low learning outcomes. Solutions to address this learning crisis, such as remedial programs with targeted instructions, exist, but support to teachers beyond their initial training to these programs is often neglected. The present research project aims to test, in the context of Cote d’Ivoire, innovative ways that government-appointed mentors can support teachers when implementing the Teaching at the Right Level approach, one such solution.
Informed by previous qualitative studies that the team conducted in areas where the approach was piloted, they are now testing a novel mentoring approach based on targeting schools for mentor in-person visits with data and on remote mentoring. Baseline data have been collected and mentors have been trained.