Tanzanian students learn in classrooms where the teacher-to-pupil ratio can reach 1 to 150. The students have almost no visual aids and no books. Teaching and Learning through Photography has developed a methodology using affordable but effective visual tools that are linked to the national curriculum. The colorful posters, made with students and teachers and designed with Katy Homans, have been of tremendous benefit to teachers and students in these tough environments.
Teaching and Learning through Photography will become an integral part of the curriculum in education for student teachers at the University of Dodoma, one of the largest public universities in Tanzania. The plan is to train all 10,000 education students who attend UDOM in TLTP methodology and equip them with their own sets of posters and materials.
The TLTP methods and visual aids are now being developed and adapted for use in secondary school classrooms around Tanzania. Administrators and professors at the University of Dodoma in Dodoma, Tanzania, are developing a mandatory course on the use of TLTP methods and visual aids so that graduating education students will be equipped with the materials and methods when they arrive at their teaching posts in schools around the country.
Student teachers majoring in education at the University are already using the TLTP visual aids in secondary school classrooms. They are being trained, supervised and evaluated by project co-founder Dr. Frowin Nyoni, Dean of Humanities at UDOM, among other education professionals.
