Energising Learning
Providing learning solutions to individuals, schools, communities and organisations
Energising Learning
Providing learning solutions to individuals, schools, communities and organisations
Imagining empowered individuals and communities
Working with people through communities of learning to make a difference in performance and impact.
We support individuals, schools and communities accelerate performance and optimise their impact.
Creating networks with a focus on learning
Transforming Lives through Learning Communities
Teach Connect
EXCEL Programme
Excel originates from our TC Community Support Programme, a specialized project-based learning programme that provides learning opportunities to encourage children and young people in community homes to develop functional and life skills that can help them succeed in life. With an interdisciplinary approach to learning, the idea behind Excel is to build on the interests, gifts, and talents of young people, using project-based learning and self-directed learning principles. The programme led to our interdisciplinary teaching and learning approach - known as the EXCEL Teaching Framework which is a pedagogical approach with a purpose of inspiring authentic learning.
The EXCEL Pedagogical Framework
The EXCEL framework is Teach Connect’s flagship pedagogical guide. The development of the approach started in 2008 through our Community Support Programme in community homes (orphanages) in Buea and Yaounde as an experiential approach to teaching and learning. The EXCEL pedagogical framework was based on four pillars- Confidence, Resourcefulness, Creativity, and Resilience (CRCR), which are also key indicators of the programmer's success.
Given that this programme targeted children in community homes, the choice and design of the five fundamental phases were grounded in a learning philosophy that perceives learning as a cognitive, social, and integrative experience where a change in belief, behaviour, knowledge, and understanding are incorporated into the person’s existing repertoire of behaviour and schema (values, attitudes, and beliefs).
