By Hilton Mwabili
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has trained 60,000 secondary school teachers in Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) to handle the first cohort of Junior Secondary School (JSS) learners.
According to TSC Chairman Jamleck Muturi, about 229,000 primary teachers have been trained on CBC.
“As we prepare for the rollout of CBC grade 7, 8 and 9, Head teachers will no doubt bear the greatest responsibility to these learners. When history is written, your contributions will have an indelible mark on the first and subsequent cohorts of these learners. Let us do a good job for the posterity of this nation,” the chairman stated in a speech read on his behalf by TSC Director of Human Resource Dr. Julius Olayo in the just concluded Kenya Primary School Heads Association (KEPSHA) annual conference at the Sheikh Zayed Children Welfare Centre in Mombasa.
The TSC boss hailed CBC saying the curriculum in its depth and scope, is equipping our children to cope with a world that is facing complex business, political, scientific, technological, health and environmental challenges.
“While I am not preempting the recommendations of the The Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms, I wish to say that innovation and knowledge will drive the world economy. As Head teachers, you are therefore the change agents who will implement the necessary educational reforms of the 21st Century,” Muturi said.
He added: “We urge teachers to be competent and ensure seamless implementation of Junior secondary. We have already trained curriculum support officers who will also impact the implementation process.”
While advising teachers to familiarize with technology advancements so that they can be able to deliver quality learning, he said TSC will support about 63,396 more teachers on online learning and ensure they are technology savvy.
Just like other countries across the world, he said Kenya is recovering her education service from the ravages of Covid-19 pandemic adding that the commission will continue supporting teachers post Covid-19.
“It’s worth noting that we lost teachers, principals and Secretariat Staff to Covid 19 in the course of their work. But against this backdrop, we have triumphed and brought the education sector back to full recovery. As a Commission we will continue supporting you to recover from the impact of the pandemic in order to enable every learner access to quality education,” he said.
He acknowledged the hectic two years for learners, teachers and Head teachers who were put through condensed school terms to recover time lost when schools closed for nearly one year in 2020 due to the pandemic.
