100,000 teachers set to undergo CBC training

100,000 teachers set to undergo CBC training

From the training, the trainers will train another 1,200 education officers from the Ministry of Education headquarters, county and sub-county offices.

“TSC will be heading the capacity building programme in collaboration with KICD to train teachers interpret the curriculum design and also in collaboration with KNEC on assessment,” Macharia said.

She further pointed out that capacity building is a continuous process which continues as long as a teacher is still in service.

Kenya rolled CBC this year as a means of addressing challenges of a fact evolving world that could not be solved by the 8-4-4 system which has been in use since its introduction in 1985 by former President Daniel arap Moi.

Calls for suspension

The new system will include two years of pre-primary, three years of lower primary, three years of upper primary, three years of lower secondary, three years of senior school and at least three years of higher education.

Last month, the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) called for suspension on rollout of the new curriculum after it released a report stating that teachers are not well prepared to handle it.  

The report came after the union carried out a study involving 1,455 teachers and 304 school heads spread across 37 counties.Training of teachers has been ongoing. In January, the Oxford University Press (OUP) offred to train 7,500 teachers in lower primary on the new curriculum.

The trainings were carried out in a series of 50 workshops co-sponsored by partners including Alternative Provision of Basic Education and Training (ApBET), Kenya Private Schools Association (KPSA) and the ministry.

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