The Cabinet Secretary for Education Ezekiel Machogu has urged the Technical Vocational and Education Training (TVETs) as well as Teacher Training Institutions (TTIs) to embrace the implementation of the Competency-Based Curriculum in a bid to encourage more Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (Stem) courses, so as to have more graduates skilled according to labour market demands.
In a speech read on his behalf by the Principal Secretary for TVETs Esther Muoria on Monday during the opening of a four-day annual conference for members of the Kenya Teachers’ Colleges Principals Association in Mombasa, Machogu said the CBC is a value-based curriculum that aims at empowering learners and youth with the requisite 21st-century skills for their own development, and that of the nation.
He said with the implementation of CBC, the potential of each learner is identified at an early age. As he said teachers play a central role in these processes by guiding the learner in the identification of different pathways based on their talents and potential.
This, he said, must be the teacher trainers driving force and desire to achieve in every trainee that passes through their hands as teacher educators.
“This conference has come at an opportune time when you, as teacher educators, must chart the way forward in ensuring the teachers you produce from your colleges are of high quality. They should also be able to effectively implement the CBC in the schools,
“Your primary responsibility entails not only the development of quality teachers for our schools but also teachers with the ability to nurture the tender minds of our children from early years until they become skilled and responsible citizens of this great nation,” Machogu said.
The CS said the government will work closely with private TTCs by establishing communities of practice to complement each other’s efforts and learn from each other in order to provide quality and effective teachers for both public and private schools where Kenyan children attend.
By Vostine Ratemo
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