Time to Teach

Publication series:
Innocenti Research Report
No. of pages: 86
Download the report
Related Project(s):
Abstract
Teacher absenteeism
constitutes a significant barrier to achieving quality education in many low-
and middle-income countries globally, where teachers’ school absence rates
range from 3 per cent to 27 per cent. Over the past few decades, Zanzibar has
implemented a number of policy reforms and made tremendous progress in
expanding access to primary education. Yet, the quality of learning outcomes
remains weak. One of the major factors hindering the provision of quality
education is teacher absenteeism, which is a prevalent phenomenon across
primary schools.
Time to Teach (TTT) targets this
knowledge gap. Its primary objective is to identify factors affecting the
various forms of primary school teacher attendance and to use this evidence to
inform the design and implementation of teacher-related policies. Specifically,
the study looks at four distinct forms of teacher attendance: being in
school; being punctual; being in the classroom; and spending sufficient time on
task while in the classroom.