LGLP
The Leading Girls’ Learning Programme (LGLP) is about sustainably changing the pattern of underperformance and underrepresentation associated with girls and women in secondary education in Ghana.
Background to LGLP
The Leading Girls’ Learning Programme (LGLP) is about sustainably changing the pattern of underperformance and underrepresentation associated with girls and women in secondary education in Ghana. Despite the overall low pass rates across board on the West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate of Examination (WASSCE), girls have historically underperformed relative to boys, thereby giving them lower chances of entering tertiary institutions; and all students underperform on core subjects compared to their elective subjects.
On the teaching side, only one (1) out of four (4) teachers in Ghanaian secondary schools are female, with even fewer in leadership positions. It is in this gender light that the “Leading Girls’ Learning Programme” (LGLP) is being proposed as an intervention.
With support from the Ghana Education Service and co-sponsorship support by the US Embassy in Ghana, the LGLP is designed to highlight the issues faced by girl students and female teachers at the senior high school level, and to build capacity of teacher leaders as one of the solutions to address the gender gap.
Using a combination of pedagogy and leadership training, mentorship, and role modelling, LGLP will begin with building the capacity of selected teacher leaders (majority females), to improve the achievement of identified underperforming students, with a strong bias for positively impacting girls.
Programme Partners
Objectives of LGLP
- Change the attitudes against girls and women in secondary education in Ghana to contribute to lasting improvement in girls’ learning and the conscious support for females in the teaching profession
- Build local capacity to deliver improved teaching in general and for female teachers in particular
- Improve the classroom learning and achievements of all students, with a particular focus on girls, and
- Promote leadership roles and the teaching profession, respectively to high performing female teachers and aspiring girl students.
Benefits for Participating Schools
- Partner with us to address gender disparities in your school and sensitize the broader community
- Empower your top performing female staff to impact their peers with our intensive, practical teaching and leadership workshops
- Track the improvement of your underperforming girl students, with at least 25 students supported by each participant teacher
- Participant teachers will join a professional network of INTED teachers who support each other’s development, growth, and student impact
- One year INTED support for LGLP participants as they train colleague teachers back at school
- Get discounts for other INTED’s programmes (e.g. School Specific Programme, for entire staff training, etc.)
Programme Overview 2020/21 Pilot
With lessons from our 10-year capacity building and advocacy work impacting at least 2,000 teachers in over 50 schools in Ghana, INTED is proposing “Leading Girls’ Learning Programme” (LGLP) as an intervention designed to highlight the issues associated with girls learning at the senior high school level and to build capacity of teacher leaders as one of the solutions to address the gender achievement gaps. Using a combination of pedagogy and leadership training, mentorship, and role modelling, LGLP will build the capacity of a majority of female teachers, who are underrepresented at the secondary level.
This year’s pilot is targeted at developing the capacity of up to 24 local trainers to deliver the programme to 20 teachers each selected from 12 poorly resourced schools in the Central and Eastern Regions. As part of the pilot, each of the 240 participants will identify and support up to 25 underperforming students, with a bias for girls. The training content will cover general pedagogy, CORE subject training, and seminars on “Female Leadership” and “Girls’ Learning,” and will be held throughout the academic year
