Mwangaza's Five Programs
                Teaching and Learning for Living
                Mwangaza's Five Education Programs

Characteristics Common to All Five Mwangaza Programs:
  • Program designs reflect constituencies' needs;
  • Participants from at least three dioceses attend all training seminars;
  • Trainees return to their dioceses to teach other leaders;
  • Programs include critical thinking, group work, opportunities for dialogue
    and questions, and reflection on problem-posing pictures; and
  • Through Mwangaza programs, all are empowered.

1. Secondary School Teacher/Skill Development Program:
  • Teacher exchanges are scheduled every three years for ELCT/ELCA teachers for collaborative development of teaching
    guides, team taught seminars, and provision of material resources.
  • Mwangaza professional development seminars respond to requests for teacher-training from 51 schools within the ELCT
    nationwide.
  • Seminars focus upon teaching strategies, problem-posing pictures, interpreting visuals, and HIV/AIDS.
  • Mwangaza teacher-training seminars develop classrooms that respect the learner and create a non-threatening learning
    environment.
  • Typically, ten Tanzanian students use a single text. Through book purchases, Mwangaza seeks to reduce the 10:1 ratio.

2. Binti-Mama / Daughter-Mother Program
 Instruction covers life-skills: communication, family health, nutrition, and also:
  • Issues of violence, HIV/AIDS prevention, gender relationships
  • Women's life cycle, abortion, family planning
  • Relationships and responsibility in family, community, church
  • Issues of power and authority
  • Leadership models for women identified in selected Bible stories
  • Importance of formal and informal education for girls

3. Mwana-Baba / Son-Father Program
 Instruction covers communication and responsibilities of power and authority; and also:
  • Stewardship of time and money in home, community, and church
  • Marriage relationship and responsibilities for children, wife, and extended family
  • HIV/AIDS prevention, gender responsibilities
  • Children's rights: equality in education, safety, home sustenance
  • Servant-leader Bible study

4. Integrated HIV/AIDS and Covenant Circle Program
 Seminar instruction is provided for community leaders followed by evaluation seminars:
  • Information regarding contraction of disease and prevention
  • Information regarding process of behavior change
  • Establishment of peer support and guardian programs
Emphasis on responsibilities of all members of a community; issues of stigma and gender
  • Covenant Circle - commitment to behavioral change
  • A code of behavior design for each community that places responsibility on everyone

5. Computer skills
 Computer instruction for teachers from focus schools in seven dioceses and for seminar participants
Members of a Binti Mama course enact a
skit they wrote that reflects new insights
into women's issues