Teachers Recruitment to be Supervised by MoE
Teachers Recruitment to be Supervised by MoE. A one-year retraining program is required of teachers who want to stay in the classrooms of primary and secondary schools in order to adapt to the demands of the new curriculum.
One of the concepts in the report under consideration by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER) is this.
Task force members’ new proposals call for teacher retraining to be in line with the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC).
The team claims that teachers will benefit from retraining by learning how to use the CBC, which has been in place for seven years.
As opposed to the former structure, when CBC trainings were offered by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), the task force advises that the training be carried out by the Ministry of Education.
It shouldn’t take more than a year from the time the plans are authorized for the task force sources to transfer the ministry’s responsibility for training from TSC.
The committee additionally suggests that the Ministry of Education develop standards for how all instructors who received their degrees prior to 2023 must complete the appropriate retraining in order to adhere to curriculum changes.
The group advises against allowing a teacher to teach if they don’t finish the necessary retooling. This effectively indicates that those who do not complete the retraining may lose their jobs.
The draft report, however, makes no mention of whether instructors will be required to cover their own retraining expenses or if the government will cover them.
On this issue, teachers’ unions have pushed for government funding.
The task force members claimed that inadequate teacher capacity and readiness were the main obstacles to the CBC’s implementation.
Teachers Recruitment to be Supervised by MoE
The members claim that certain interested parties have criticized TSC’s CBC trainings as being “superficial, hurried, and conducted by unqualified trainers.”
Stakeholders also criticized TSC trainers for interpreting curriculum designs inconsistently and for failing to provide thorough answers to questions.
The group promoted the creation of a single teaching college called as the Kenya Teachers Training College; all other TTCs will be campuses as part of the strategy to change instruction in Kenyan schools.
Although the details are unclear, the research also recommends decreasing the entry grade for institutions that train teachers in underdeveloped regions.
There henceforth Ministry of Education will oversee the recruitment of teachers as proposed by Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms.