TSC announces mandatory teacher retraining
TSC announces mandatory teacher retraining to help in the implementation of CBC
TSC announces mandatory teacher retraining to help in the implementation of CBC
Teachers must undergo rigorous retraining and training in order to successfully administer the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), according to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
TSC CEO Nancy Macharia announced that the commission would use monies provided to it by the previous administration to facilitate the exercise in a statement on Friday, December 2.
“They are already teachers but need to be inducted into what is expected of them,” she stated.
“We can use these funds to train the teachers on working with Grade Seven learners. Of course, some have gone through training therefore, retraining will be enough,” she announced.
However, due to the short amount of time until the upcoming term, which is scheduled to start in January 2023, the training will be phased.T
TSC applauded the government’s decision to hire 30,000 teachers in 2023, pointing out that secondary schools across the nation had a shortage of 68,000 instructors.
She also mentioned that some teachers just needed refresher courses because they had already received training.
“30,000 teachers will go a long way to reduce this deficit. We shall distribute them across all the learning stages from lower primary, junior secondary schools, upper primary, and secondary schools,” Macharia noted.
Notably, the new administration had initially promised to recruit 116,000 teachers within the first two financial years by employing 58,000 teachers annually.
In September 2022, the Employment and Labour Relations Court allowed TSC to roll out the teachers’ training program.
This was after a protracted court battle between the teachers’ commission and a petitioner who argued that TSC failed to involve relevant education stakeholders during the launch.
According to Justice David Nderitu, the petitioner failed to produce evidence indicating the violation of the Constitution.
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