116,024 Secondary School Teachers To Be Trained By The End Of 2022 On CBC

NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr, 23  -With the construction of nearly 10,000 schools nationwide complete ahead of the transition of Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) learners to junior secondary school in 2023, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Chief Executive Officer Dr. Nancy Macharia has said that the training of teachers in high school will kick off on Monday.

During the exercise which will run from April,25 to May 13, 2022, 60,000 teachers drawn from both public and private schools will be trained.

“The target is to train all 116,024 secondary school teachers by the end of this year. To date 229,292 primary school teachers and teacher training college tutors have been trained on the Competency Based Curriculum,” said Macharia.

Macharia meanwhile sought to allay fears, that teachers were not prepared for the transition to junior secondary school saying that trained teachers will also undergo a refresher course in December 2022.

The training is expected to adopt a phased model that will start at the national level to the county and sub-county levels.

Teachers will be trained in specific learning areas in languages, pure sciences, applied science, mathematics, and technical subjects.

The training will involve special needs education teachers with tutors in private schools also expected to receive training.

During the annual conference of the Kenya Secondary Schools Heads Association (Kessha) conference in Mombasa, over 900 principals from the public secondary schools held discussions on the implementation of a Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) among other pertinent topics related to the education sector.

KESSHA national Chairman Alfred Kahi Indimuli said that teachers demanded to be briefed on the readiness of CBC curriculum designs for junior secondary school.

“We also came to look at the new curriculum. We are saying children are joining the secondary sector next year. We would like to hear from the KICD are the curriculum designs ready. Are they available so that we have time to look at them? We have time to criticize them, we have time to give corrections, rather than the designs coming at the time the students are in school, then we start issuing them, criticizing them and to an observer, we are not ready. We are simply saying, let us look at these designs early enough,” added Indimuli.