Teachers4Teachers – Education is Future

TO MEET, TO CONNECT, TO LEARN

The reason for starting T4T was that the founders genuinely wanted to improve education, by closely connecting people involved in education with the willingness to improve education by learning mutually. Nowadays our motto describes exactly what we achieve: to meet, to connect, to learn. We exchange knowledge, experience and share our conviction that education is future.

Teachers4Teachers is a volunteer organization where Dutch and Kenyan teachers work together and learn from each other. The main goal of the T4T Foundation is to improve the development of education in Kenya. We achieve this by organising exchange-programmes involving Dutch and Kenyan teachers and head teachers of the primary education systems. We work together with approximately 320 schools in county Kwale.

Currently, we work with approximately 450 schools in Kenya in the coastal province south of Mombasa. Intensive brainstorming sessions occur twice a year (in spring and autumn) at the Kenyan schools, where ideas and experiences are exchanged between the Dutch and Kenyan teachers.

The Dutch participants and their Kenyan colleagues discuss possible solutions for the current educational problems and they agree on tangible learning activities. Based on the outcomes of these discussions, development plans are made and the Kenyan participants put the methods into practice. At the next exchange, progress is evaluated and follow-up steps are decided upon.

Succes of the T4T approach has been recognized since it has been added to the annual programme of the local Kenyan government. One important guideline is that the head teachers and teachers in Kenya are to decide which themes are discussed in the exchange-programme. The encounter between the (head) teachers from two different cultures is beneficial for all involved and provides insight into the importance of exchange and support.

In addition to this exchange programme, we have started a school leaders course and we support women who want to follow the kindergarten teachers’ training programme.

In the Netherlands we work with a number of school boards that support our work in Kenya financially and physically by sending staff.

Let’s meet, connect and learn!

Latest news

T4T-workshops in January/February lead by Kenyan teachers
15 January 2021
It was to be expected, that no Dutch teachers would be able to come to Kwale in January and February to enjoy workshops with their Kenyan colleagues. Despite the lack of Dutch teachers workshops will be organized. Already in December 2020 Francis Nzai organized meetings with the team leaders of
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Djengue withholds Jan Uitdehaag working in Kenya again
24 October 2020
Unfortunately T4T trainer at the school leaders course of T4T, Jan Uitdehaag, is not going to continue his work in Kwale. In a letter below he explains the reason and reflects on the development of education in Kwale. Since 2007 Jan was one of the 3 creators of the school
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Longing for education
9 September 2020
It would have been so nice to continue the T4T programs with Dutch head teachers, HoD’s and specialists SNE and ECDE next week. I remember the wonderful CBC lesson about plants last March and the powerful cooperation between Kenyan and Dutch teachers in the workshops. How new ideas about active
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