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RAIET Trainer-of-Trainers — Zimbabwe's Cascade Model for National Robotics and AI Teacher Training

Zimbabwe · Zvishavane · See the Zimbabwe profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 70% 40/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Zimbabwe's Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and Qurious Mind ran three-day 'RAIET' Trainer-of-Trainers workshops in all 10 provinces in June 2026, training 605+ teachers, inspectors and officials on Qurio robotics kits and Arduino/mBlock programming under a cascade mod

605+
Trainees reached (June 2026)
RAIET Trainer-of-Trainers — Zimbabwe's Cascade Model for National Robotics and AI Teacher Training

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE) with Qurious Mind Zimbabwe
Period
June 2026
Keywords
teacher training, robotics, AI, STEM curriculum implementation

Context

Zimbabwe's Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education partnered with Qurious Mind Zimbabwe to run three-day 'RAIET' Trainer-of-Trainers workshops in all 10 provinces in June 2026, building teacher capacity for the country's new compulsory AI, coding and robotics curriculum requirement.

Results

The rollout reached 605+ teachers, ministry officials, district inspectors and administrators across all 10 provinces, using a cascade design in which trained teachers return to train colleagues and students, working with Qurio Robotics Kits, Arduino and mBlock programming.

Conclusions

The stated ambition to extend to 72 districts and roughly 11,700 schools nationwide is a forward-looking plan rather than a demonstrated outcome; no independent data on classroom implementation or student learning results was available at publication.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)
Staffing & skills
Qurious Mind Zimbabwe trainers

Conditions for success

  • cascade model where trained teachers train colleagues and students
  • alignment with the Heritage-Based Curriculum's compulsory AI/robotics requirement

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