Level 4: Teacher Application – Classroom Observation, Lesson Plans

The fourth level of monitoring and evaluation focuses on how teachers are applying the knowledge and skills that they are acquiring in workshop programmes in their professional practice. Are teachers using the new knowledge and skills acquired in the capacity building workshops in their classroom practice? The purpose is to understand how teachers are using ICT to support content and pedagogy in Science, Mathematics and English teaching and learning. The focus is to document the impact of the teacher development programme at classroom level and to improve training content continually based on field visit feedback from all regions.

The TPACK classroom observation protocol is a tool to assess teacher application of their technology, pedagogy and content knowledge in classroom practice. The observation tool has three parts.

Part 1: The first part consists of an observation checklist to assess the teachers’ content, pedagogy and technology knowledge and subsequently the teachers’ capacity in the application of TPCK in different formats (technology and pedagogy knowledge; content and pedagogy knowledge, technology and content knowledge; technology, pedagogy and content knowledge.

Part 2: The second part consists of short descriptive summaries of the teaching and learning activities observed during the classroom visit.

Part 3: The third part consists of a lesson plan review framework.


The following section presents general questions about the region, district, school, class, teacher and lesson details