The Sindh school education and literacy department (SELD), together with Unicef and Khan Academy Pakistan, had celebrated the completion of Pakistan’s first artificial intelligence powered teacher training programme.
More than 6,000 teachers were nominated for the programme, well above the original target of 3,500. Of them, 3,503 completed the training, comprising 3,436 government school teachers and 67 officials and faculty from key teacher education institutions.
A total of 3,181 participants passed the training programme with a 91 per cent passing rate. Female teachers made up 58 per cent of those trained and recorded a 92 per cent pass rate compared to 89 per cent among male teachers. The training, delivered entirely online across 88 cohorts, combined around seven hours of live interactive sessions per cohort with four weeks of self-paced learning on Khan Academy’s online learning platform supported by WhatsApp groups for peer troubleshooting.
It equipped teachers to use Khanmigo, Khan Academy’s AI teaching assistant, for lesson planning, designing questions and tests, creating classroom activities and supporting multi grade and slower learners, always under the teacher’s own judgement.
Certification required both passing the course and demonstrating continued use of Khanmigo in the classroom over the following six months. The pilot began in the Sindh Learning Programme focus districts of Dadu, Tando Allah Yar, Tharparkar and Umerkot, and was later extended to the divisional headquarters of Karachi, Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas.
Pre- and post-training surveys of 2,146 teachers found clear shifts in classroom practice. The share of teachers using AI to revise lesson content rose from zero to 79 per cent, while ease of designing student assessments rose from 51 to 92 per cent. In follow up discussions, teachers described saving several hours of lesson preparation time each week, and reported that students were staying more engaged in class as a result.
