The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has rolled out a retooling programme for field officers ahead of a similar exercise for Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers next week.
From Wednesday this week, the commission embarked on the serious business of sensitizing and equipping the sub-county directors, curriculum support and quality assurance and standards officers (ToTs) with requisite knowledge on CBC.
The training for regular CSOs and sub-county directors is county-based while the CSO SNE training is consolidated at the regional level.
Education News has learned that two to three counties are grouped and trained at one place for the CSO SNE cohort. This has however made this category of officers to implore upon the commission to consider the cost component involved in such regional arrangements.
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Again, next week, the same CSOs will be retooling teachers at county level unlike their regular colleagues who will carry out the exercise at the zonal and sub-county levels.
The upcoming retooling of JSS teachers from next week will be quite different from the past as teachers will be taken through a rigorous process of unpacking the curriculum design.
This will encompass how specific subjects will be taught, putting into consideration the various categories of learners especially those with special needs.
CSO SNE will for this time be equipped with skills that will assist them in the implementation of the curriculum for learners with special needs. Also, teachers will be equipped with knowledge on characteristics of learners in JSS, learner-centred pedagogies for JSS, characteristics of learners in pre-vocational level (for SNE schools), and communication skills ideal for junior school learners.
As teachers will be retooled next week, it is expected that private schools will join their public counterparts in in the five-day crucial exercise.
By Makiche Lagat
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