Proposal content:
In a remote part of Malawi children in a school are seated under a tree. The teachers are facing with lack of teaching resources; hence they are being innovative and using locally available materials to bridge the gap. For instance, a teacher utilizes a used carton, and creates a look-alike TV set with it. Colorful illustration on the front side of the box is shown as if it is on a TV screen. Children here have never been even close to a real TV set. This kind of innovative method of teaching is known as Talular (Teaching and Learning Using locally Available Resources.) Other materials can be bottle tops, cardboards, matchboxes, roots, leafs and whatever you can think of. This program is to motivate teachers to be more interesting in their instructional methods. Through interviews of four model teachers, we learn of their frustrations at having no teaching and learning resources. The program also uses vivid facial expressions of the children being benefited by the innovative teachers.