Tfabb

Teachers for a Better Belize (TFABB) is a partnership of professional educators from North America and Belize. Since 1997 we have worked together as volunteers to improve preschool and primary (K-8) education in Belize's Toledo district. Toledo is the poorest and least developed region of Belize. Teachers there have little or no formal training in... education; indeed, nearly a quarter of the teachers have no schooling beyond high school. They face onerous conditions, including limited supplies and multigrade classrooms (several grade levels taught by one teacher in one room). Over 50 percent of Toledo's teens do not go to high school, and thus have little chance of escaping poverty. TFABB's goal is to help equip Toledo's preschool and primary-school teachers and principals with the training, supplies, and facilities they need to help their students achieve educational, and ultimately economic, success. TFABB hopes its efforts will help break the cycle of poverty and dependency that plagues Toledo's villages by empowering teachers there to increase the number of children who finish elementary school, pass the national high school entrance exam, attend high school, and achieve long-term economic success. Inherent in our process of strengthening teaching abilities is a continuing dialogue with the educators and people of the region about how our efforts can best benefit Toledo's students.Read More