INSTEP Teacher Training Magazine

INSTEP is a professional development magazine for private schools and teachers. With contributors and an editorial team based in the United States, the magazine offers schools and teachers professional development workshops designed for in-service teacher training sessions. This magazine is part of Intergraid’s mandate to help raise the quality of teaching and learning in developing countries as well as ensure that all students, regardless of socio-economic status, are given the tools to thrive anywhere in the world. It also affords teachers access to affordable professional development and training opportunities. Each edition focuses on a particular theme and provides a 10-12 workshops on different aspects of that theme. The resource is subscription based and head of schools or the trainers have access to special training ‘train the trainer’ workshops.

INSTEP was developed as a long-term solution to teacher development. It combines both service, (the approach of EEP Assists) and product to create a powerful model that will enable professional development reach every single private and public school in the nation for years to come. The best features of this model is that it:

Makes teacher training affordable

Provides the resources for continuous training and development

Trains individuals to become trainers themselves

Increases the knowledge of trainers and teachers

Provides the resources to retrain teachers or train new teachers

Provides a system that enables monitoring and evaluation

Requires no financial expenditure from teachers

Provides teacher development that meets global standards

Is guaranteed to translate to the classroom thus raising the quality of learning for students across the country

Is the first model of its kind and can pave the way for Nigeria as the pioneer for other developing countries