The TRCs are open to all teachers within the LGAs, and the teachers are guided by the TRC assistants who are staff of SUBEB.  So far, a total of 11,026 (5,064 males: 5,962 females) teachers have paid an unscheduled visit to the TRCs to produce interactive TLMs.

In this reporting year, excluding the boot camps organized by SENSE, a total of 84,054 sets of flashcards and 48,658 posters were made by teachers during their unscheduled visits to the TRCs.  The TRCs have become popular and are in high demand for use by teachers from all schools within the target LGAs. Due to the popularity of the TRCs, other implementing partners have started using them to conduct teacher professional development (TPDs), and the state is benefiting greatly from them as locations for site-based TPDs.

SUBEB from both states has started supporting the TRCs through the provision of consumables initially solely covered by SENSE. Gombe state SUBEB has committed a monthly operational cost of N20,000 per TRC. Adamawa SUBEB gave generators to five centers and promised to give the remaining six generators to the centers. SBMC in these LGAs carried out resource mobilization activities, resulting in community members donating funds for the purchase of consumables, and some philanthropies have made monthly commitments to the TRCs. Rose Russha, a teacher at Central Primary School, Guyuk, one of the beneficiaries of the resource center from Guyuk local government area of Adamawa state, said she used to have to source materials that she could improvise as teaching aids from a dumpster, but since the center was created she no longer had to do that. She said that she now visits the center weekly to get materials like cardboard paper, markers, etc., to help her in class.

Peace Luka, a teacher from a non-intervention school in Ganye local government area, said, “The center has helped me to be able to teach my pupils better because of the teaching aids I make from the TRC when I teach with teaching aids; the pupils capture and understand immediately.”

A primary school teacher at central primary school in Akko local government area, said, “I enjoy teaching now because of the new teaching methods I have learned from the SENSE team, such as making demonstrations and adding songs to my lessons.” Whenever I teach using songs, my pupils learn very fast, they are not scared, the class is lively, and they are interested in coming to school every day; even during break time, they keep singing the songs and demonstrating what they have learned in class. I am happy that I have learned this simple method of teaching because the teaching aids I placed in the class for the pupils to see, touch, and read also help them learn.