{"id":14689,"date":"2022-06-01T08:13:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T07:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/?p=14689"},"modified":"2022-06-01T08:13:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T07:13:58","slug":"helping-to-improve-life-outcomes-in-nairobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/helping-to-improve-life-outcomes-in-nairobi\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping to improve life outcomes in Nairobi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Maisha Mema (www.maishamema.org<\/a>) \u00a0is a charitable children\u2019s institution in Kenya. In Tigoni, the charity runs a Children\u2019s Home, and there is a community outreach program known as \u2018Clubhouse\u2019, where children in Soweto slums are supported in Nairobi, Kenya.\u00a0 Forty-five children live together with the Maisha Mema staff as a big family in Tigoni, and almost 300 children are participating in the program at the Clubhouse in Soweto at any given time.<\/p>\n

Maisha Mema\u2019s vision is \u201cto create a conducive environment for the children in the program through learning and activities so that they will be brought up to be useful citizens of Kenya in terms of getting an education and a job.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Michael Kyavoa, Teacher, Maisha Mema, explains: \u201cWe have worked with Whizz Education since 2016 for our children to access the award-winning virtual tutor Maths-Whizz.\u00a0 Currently, we have 113 licences, so children, mainly from Play Group to Grade 5 (6-14 years), use Maths-Whizz on a regular basis, funded by St. Olav VGS in Stavanger, Norway, whose generous contribution also covers our WiFi.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll beneficiaries of Maisha Mema attend public school during the day. When they return in the afternoons, we then work with them to ensure they understood their lessons and anywhere where they found challenges, can be set on Maths-Whizz.\u00a0 This reinforces learning and really helps build confidence when they are in school.\u201d<\/p>\n

90% of <\/em><\/strong>Maisha Mema\u2019s students who made 2.5 progressions or more, since the beginning of the academic year, have achieved accelerated progress.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOur Whizz Education Success Partner, Matt Jones has been incredible.\u00a0 He has provided several meeting and training sessions with all of our staff over zoom. He is always available to help and answer any questions.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cOne area we have found most helpful is that Maths-Whizz enables us to monitor the progress of each child and groups of learners too.\u00a0 This is a good point of reference for our teachers.\u00a0 Every teacher has their own password and log in to access detailed information.\u00a0 This enables us to drill down into subtopics so we can clearly assess strengths and weaknesses.\u00a0 The data empowers us as teachers to step in and support individuals, groups of learners or a whole class on a particular topic.\u00a0 In this way it helps guide our lesson planning on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Teachers Resource aspect of the solution is also very helpful.\u00a0 This is a library and tool containing lesson plans and guides which we can use to plan lessons on specific topics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe virtual tutor itself is really well received by the children.\u00a0 They love the games, animals and animation, and genuinely enjoy working through the programme.\u00a0 It means there is not a \u2018formal\u2019 classroom feeling and learners are active in making progress by themselves.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the best aspects of Maths-Whizz is that it pitches the learning at the level of the individual child.\u00a0 It automatically assesses and tailors online lessons to match knowledge and ability.\u00a0 We often use it to recap on our normal lessons and yet, everyone is working at their own level and pace.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we use an English version of Maths-Whizz, incidentally, we have found this helps children with their English too!\u00a0\u00a0 As well as reading, the sounds help them with their pronunciation.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing the COVID lockdown, we were allowed to let five children at a time access our Maths-Whizz room although we still couldn\u2019t teach.\u00a0\u00a0 This helped them keep up to date with their maths learning as much as they possibly could given the circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaths-Whizz is now helping us prepare students\u2019 learning for the new CBC curriculum which has been introduced, as they eventually work towards a new national exam when they reach Grade 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, working with Whizz Education and being able to access the virtual tutor Maths-Whizz has helped our learners so much.\u00a0 Ultimately, the knowledge they have acquired will help our children get jobs in the future and improve their life outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you would like to sponsor or donate to Maisha Mema please visit: www.maishamema.org<\/a><\/p>\n

For further information about Whizz Education please see:\u00a0 www.whizz.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maisha Mema (www.maishamema.org) \u00a0is a charitable children\u2019s institution in Kenya. In Tigoni, the charity runs a Children\u2019s Home, and there is a community outreach program known as \u2018Clubhouse\u2019, where children in Soweto slums are supported in Nairobi, Kenya.\u00a0 Forty-five children live together with the Maisha Mema staff as a big family in Tigoni, and almost …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,144,67,4,164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-case-study","category-international","category-maths","category-news","category-partner-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14692,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689\/revisions\/14692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}