Teachers Guide Book (TIE Books) For Primary School Standard III - VII All Subjects

Tanzania Institute of Education has prepared this guide to enable a teacher to use the current TIE Syllabus.

This teacher’s guide book aims to enable the teacher to implement changes to the syllabus of a particular subject that emphasizes building competences in teaching and learning so that the student can effectively deal with the life challenges in a surrounding environment .

Teacher, when using this guide you are advised to consider all the outlined elements in order to translate the syllabus requirements in teaching and learning activities within the classroom and outside the classroom.

Therefore, the teacher is encouraged to use this guide as a precious treasure for teaching subject effectively.

This guide is designed to be used together with the curriculum and syllabus to prepare schemes of work, lesson plans and teaching materials.

In order to have a common understanding and interpretation of the syllabus, teacher's guide book has been prepared for the teachers to use during the implementation of this syllabus.

This guide is also crucial for covering the knowledge gap in teaching among those with limited knowledge on the particular subject. So with this regard, this guide will assist the teacher in interpreting competences, activities and thus enables the teacher to plan a lesson and teach accordingly.

This guide also intends to strengthen teacher’s competence in teaching the subject as to reduce or eliminate the mass failure to pupils.

Tanzania Institute of Education will appreciate to receive any relevant suggestions and opinion from teachers and other education stakeholders for improvement of the guide.

The Importance of the Guide

This guide is developed for subject teacher in primary schools in order to improve competences in teaching and to facilitate pupils to acquire the intended competences in a particular subject.

This guide is therefore important since it intends to enable you:

a) Implement the syllabus. The syllabus emphasizes learning through practical in order to acquire the skills of investigation, inquiry, record keeping and usage of information in solving various problems.

b) Emphasizes the development of pupils’ competence during teaching and learning.

c) Recognize some of the teaching and learning materials and tools.

d) Get an overview of examples on teaching and learning to some chosen activities for each specific competence in a subject.

e) Use different techniques of the continuous assessment in developing pupil competence.

f) Solve various challenges in the teaching and learning process.

g) Make follow up and monitoring of implementation of curriculum.