Contribute to Upskill 500 Teachers in Juba in 2025

These in-service teachers' skill boost workshops in Juba were facilitated based on needs assessment and formal requests from beneficiary schools spread across Luri, Rejaf, and Munuki Payams of Juba County in Central Equatoria State. Through the Program and Communications Manager of the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan, the schools discuss and agree on a suitable date for each workshop to ensure the availability of all teaching staff.

Between January and March 2025, we conducted a mix of fourteen 1 -3 day workshops reaching two hundred ninety (295) teaching staff, including administrators, one hundred sixty-nine (169) of whom were male, while seventy-six (76) were female. These participants were from both nursery, primary and secondary school sections. The primary goal of these full-day workshops, which ran from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM, was to enhance the skills of the teachers, equipping them with effective strategies to improve learning outcomes in their classrooms.

All fourteen workshops were facilitated by more than ten (10) expert facilitators internally from within the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) staff, board, and others sourced externally from our professional network.

The major topics discussed during the engagement included:

• The South Sudan Teachers’ Code of Conduct 2012.
• Developing the CBC Scheme of Work and Lesson Plan.
• Counselling and Guidance for Educators.
• Mental Health and Psychological Well-being
• Classroom Management Strategies.
• Administrative-Teacher-Parent Relationships
• Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (GEDI) in Education

The objectives of each workshop were to:

• Help teachers understand and implement the South Sudan teachers’ code of conduct 2012.
• Assist teachers in receiving proper guidance on counselling so that they are better equipped to identify signs of mental health issues in learners.
• Promote child safeguarding mechanisms in schools.
• Assist participants on how to prepare schemes of work and lesson plans.
• Promote good classroom management strategies.

The workshops employed a mix of instructional methods by the facilitators, participant-led discussions, group exercises, individual exercises, illustrations, quizzes and brain teasers to ensure that every teacher gained maximum knowledge and skills. The participants were given chances to ask questions for clarity, share their experiences and give feedback to the facilitators at the end of each session. Experienced teachers were allowed to give their inputs based on their teaching career journeys.  

The workshop used flipcharts pinned on the board using masking tape to illustrate key points using markers, while participants had notebooks, rulers and pens provided by their school administrators to record down important points. 

A fifteen-minute morning health break and a one-hour lunch break were given to all the participants for refreshments and to reflect on the workshop content.

Links:

• Smooth Star Academy: Nursery, Primary and Secondary Workshop
• Alekma Academy + Starlite Schools Workshop Photos
• Diplomatic Nursery and Primary School Teachers' Workshop Report

• Baraka Central School Administrators Workshop (PDF)
  
• New Africa International School Workshop Report (PDF)