By Lydia Ngoolo
Teachers in Makueni County have been called upon not to set their exam targeted mean score below the previous scores.
This was said by the Teachers service commission County director for Makueni Alex Cheruiyot who observed that schools should always aim higher to encourage hardworking and good performance.
Cheruiyot was speaking at Mumbeeni primary school during the assessment of schools which had benefited from the Kenya primary education development (PRIEDE) project.
“Kindly never set a mean score target below what you scored previously. For instance there is no way you can get English mean score of 60 and aim for the next mean score to be 50. It’s not logical at all.” Said Cheruiyot
The county boss encouraged teachers to embrace modern methodology in teaching. He added that teaching is going through a lot of reforms and that teachers had no choice rather than embracing the reforms.
“ICT is the way to go and a skill you should pick now, and integrate it well in the lessons. Change is inevitable.” The director insisted.
On the shortage of teachers, he said the commission is doing its best to see to it that the County has enough teachers in the 903 primary schools.
“We are doing our best to rationalize and balance teachers. We want every class to have a requisite number of teachers in terms of international standard of teacher-to-learner ratio to enable the head teachers do their administrative duties smoothly,” he added.
The school head teacher Peter Kathuvu said the school had gone without a deputy for eight years and in addition they were less by one teacher.
“Currently we are seven. My senior teacher doubles as the deputy. If we can at least get one more teacher we will be happy,” Kathuvu.
Others in attendance were the County director of education James Gachugi, World Bank education experts, and other education stakeholders.
