All Teachers must Undergo training.
All Teachers must Undergo Training.
If President William Ruto adopts the recommendations of the Competency-Based Curriculum task group,all teachers will be required to retake new training to match with changes in the school curriculum.
According to the report presented to the President at the State House on Tuesday, August 1, the taskforce underlined the importance of retraining teachers on curricular modifications.The training is scheduled to last a year.
“The Ministry of Education should develop guidelines on how all teachers who graduated before 2023 should go through a mandatory one year retooling and upgrading program to ensure compliance with the curriculum change,” the recommendation stated in part.
To accomplish the retooling process, a task team led by Professor Raphael Munavu directed the institution to construct comprehensive Faculty Staff programs in preparation for competency based teacher education.
To increase the number and quality of teachers joining the profession, the task group also proposed that individuals enter pre-service teacher education with a C (plain) grade.
A C (Plain) in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) or its equivalent inSS, for example, is required for the Diploma in Early Childhood TeacherEducation.
Diploma in Secondary Teacher Education, Diploma in Special Needs Education, and Diploma in Technical Teacher Education are other pre-service programmes that require a C (plain).
“Create Kenya Teacher Training College (KeTTC) to manage all pre-service teacher training colleges (TTCs) as campuses.” Develop a structure to ensure effective resource utilization and sharing,” the guidelines said.
“The Ministry of Education (MoE) will establish a Kenya School of Teacher and Education Management (KeSTEM) as a corporate body to coordinate all in-service programs for institutional leaders and education officers.”
Furthermore, KeSTEM would provide CPD for teachers by utilizing the facilities of Kenya Teacher Training Colleges (KeTTC).” Admission requirements for Bachelor of Education degree programs, on the other hand, will remain established by the Universities’ Senates.
Teachers Service Commission, on the other hand, will provide all education graduates with the chance to participate in a mandated one year internship program upon completion of pre-service training.
CBC Challenges
Since its implementation under the reign of former President Uhuru Kenyatta, CBC has faced numerous obstacles, including a teacher shortage in the Junior Secondary (JS) sector and a bad remuneration structure.
JS teachers have been working without compensation since January, only to be paidin full in June.
The press also revealed near the end of July2023 that nearly 60,000 elementary school instructors had yet to apply for a chance to teach Junior Secondary, despite the fact thatthey qualified.
TSC was able to hire 30,000 instructors, 8,000 of them were from primary schools.
