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TSC: Guidelines for the official roll out of structured TPD Modules for all Teachers 2021/2022

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TSC: Guidelines for the official roll out of structured TPD Modules for all Teachers 2021/2022

 

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TSC Releases official framework and roll out of structured TPD Modules 2021-2022

TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (TPD) FRAMEWORK AND ROLL OUT OF STRUCTURED TPD IN KENYA

BACKGROUND

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● Teacher Professional development are either formal or informal activities that registered teachers undertake in order to continuously improve their pedagogical skills, management skills and learner outcomes.

● Teachers in Kenya have been involved in TPD for many years. But the TPD programmes had some shortcomings.

Common shortcomings with existing TPD Programmes (2016)

✔ The programs do not address individual teacher’s performance gaps.

✔ The programs do not provide equal opportunity to all teachers

✔ The programs are not compulsory nor continuous

✔ The programs do not offer any motivation for continuous learning.

Why the shift

21st century demand: Learners in the 21st century are confronted with increasingly complex social cultural, economic, technological, and global challenges; teachers therefore must prepare learners who possess sophisticated, diversified, and complementary competencies that will enable them to navigate through these challenges.

Global trend: Most European countries, America, Australia and some African countries have developed comprehensive TPD programme.

What is the shift

✔ Development of a Teachers Professional Development policy Framework

✔ Making TPD compulsory to all teachers

✔ Making TPD activities a life long learning programs carried out in 6 levels

Introduction of Kenya Professional Teaching Standards

Use of accredited TPD Service Providers

Conceptualization of TPD in Kenya

Teachers just like with other professionals, participate in professional development to learn and apply new knowledge and skills that will improve their competence and leadership capacity through structured programmes developed by a regulator.

TPD in Kenya is established as a coordinated and structured professional development by TSC.

All TPD programmes organized by the Commission or by accredited service providers will be based on the Kenya Professional Teaching Standards (KePTS), a set of competency standards that describe what a Kenyan teacher should know and be able to do for improved learning outcomes.

Learning activities in TPD will be delivered through prescribed modules developed by the commission.

Kenya Professional Teaching Standards

• Standard 1: Teacher Promotes Professionalism throughout their Career

• Standard 2: Teacher has Pedagogical Content Knowledge and understanding of competency based Curriculum and how to implement it.

• Standard 3: Teacher has knowledge on assessment and reporting

• Standard 4: Teacher Knows how to Create and Support Inclusive Education Practices

• Standard 5: Teacher knows and promotes comprehensive school health and safety

• Standard 6: Teacher has knowledge of financial literacy skills

• Standard 7: Teacher knows and practices instructional leadership.

DESIGN AND STRUCTURE OF TPD

The TPD program is structured into six (6) sequential levels corresponding to competency level of the teachers. Each level has a corresponding TPD Module.

It will take a teacher 5 years to complete one module for a particular level.

A module is organized in 5 chapters and covers all the the seven KePTS standards.

TPD Service providers will deliver each module on behalf of TSC.

Teachers are expected to enroll and undertake a TPD programme on face to face session once a year during a school holiday.

During the other two school holidays, teachers will undertake TPD through online.

TPD Competence levels (6)

Level Competence
1 Knowledge level on the standards
2 Application level
3 Mastery level
4 Mentorship and coaching
5 Instructional leadership
6 Mastery in Instructional leadership
Assessment of TPD

TPD activities will be evaluated based on authentic assessment which will include :

• Reflective journal

• Participant led final synthesis

• Individual Professional Portfolio development and Presentation.

Incentives for TPD

• Earning of TPD points

• Renewal of Teaching Certificate.

RENEWAL OF TEACHING CERTIFICATE

For renewal of the teaching certificate, a teacher must have completed 5 chapters of a module and provide documentary evidence of having successfully completion.

Upon commencement of the TPD Programme, all serving teachers will be required to acquire Teaching Certificate renewable every 5 years, while the subsequent applicants for Certificate of Registration will be issued with both certificates.

Accreditation of TPD Service Providers

TPD service providers must be recognized and registered with the Commission to offer services which must address the 7 KePTS

The Commission will accredit various categories of TPD service providers as follows:

Category 1: Government institutions mandated to capacity teachers: Will align to at least one of the seven KePTS

Category 2: Non government organizations in partnership with the Commission. Will align to at least one of the seven KePTS

Category 3: Organizations selected through competitive tendering system. Will use the Commission’s prescribed modules with all the seven standards.

Funding of TPD programmes based on the prescribed modules

Direct costs: Individual teachers will pay the service providers a capacity building fee.

Indirect costs: The Commission will meet the indirect costs like monitoring of the programme.

MONITORING, EVALUATION AND REPORTING OF TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Commission shall undertake continuous monitoring and evaluation of TPD programme to quality assure, offer professional support and give feedback on the training programmes.

READINESS FOR THE ROLL OUT OF TPD

The following activities have been carried out in preparation for the national rollout

• Four TPD service providers have been identified and accredited

• At least 30 facilitators from each of the TPD service providers have been trained on how to facilitate sessions based on prescribed modules

• Online delivery of TPD introductory module was piloted in June, 2020

• The Commission has signed contracts with the TPD service providers.

WHAT NEXT

• Offer refresher capacity building of the TPD service providers facilitators (scheduled for Monday, 20th September, 2021)

• Publicity of TPD programme

• Enrollment for TPD

• Monitoring the implementation once rolled out.

 

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Teachers Express Anger, Frustration and even Disillusionment Following TSC’s Official Announcement of Compulsory Refresher Courses!

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TSC Teachers’ News Today 2021-2022:Teachers Express Anger, Frustration and even Disillusionment Following TSC’s Official Announcement of Compulsory Refresher Courses!

TSC Teachers across the country have reacted with anger, frustration and even disillusionment following the official announcement by the Teachers’ Commission of rolling out refresher courses for the Tutors. This happened today at CEMASTEA, Karen,Nairobi. The TSC CEO(Nancy Macharia) talked of professionalizing the teaching fraternity  in order to match it with other professions like law and engineering

 

Most Tutors went on rampage on social media visibly angered by the commission’s decision to make them pay for the courses from their already cash strapped pockets. 
The commission announced that every tutor was to part with 6000 Ksh for the training having picked Kenyatta University, Riara and Mount Kenya Universities for the upcoming training. 
This follows the Commission’s and the teachers Unions’ agreement of signing a non monetary CBA. 
The following are some of the reactions from teachers :

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TSC Training for all Teachers 2021-2022; TSC primes itself to roll out refresher courses for over 340,000; Latest TSC Teachers’ News 2021-2022

Latest TSC News on Teachers’ Training 2021/2022: The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is priming itself to roll out refresher courses for over 340,000 teachers across the 47 counties in readiness for the full implementation of the new Competence-Based Curriculum,CBC in the country.

This is after details emerged indicating that the Commission has been holding meetings this week with teachers’ unions with an aim of paving way for the new courses introduced in 2017, but are yet to see the light of the day owing to vehement opposition emanating from the unions.

Yesterday,  however, senior TSC officials met representatives of the Kenya Primary School Head teachers Association, KEPSHA at the TSC headquarters in Nairobi to explain the modalities of the mandatory programmes.

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The meeting was convened by the TSC Director for Quality Assurance and Standards, Dr Mugwuku Nthamburi.

Fresh Guidelines for Registration of TSC Teachers 2021/2022

On Thursday, the commission met officials of the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) to demonstrate how the Teacher Professional Development Programmes will be taught and examined and how completion certificates will be used to register all teachers afresh and determine promotions. More meetings are planned for next week.

 

TSC Refresher Courses Training fee 2021/2022

All Teachers will be required to meet the cost of training, a fee amounting to KSh 6,000 each year for five years to complete the course.

The programmes were introduced in 2018 to replace the schemes of service, which guided promotions, but they immediately ran into stiff opposition from the Kenya National Union of Teachers, which insisted that it was TSC’s duty to boost the capacity of its staff at its own cost. It demanded that the schemes of service that allowed automatic promotions be retained and went to court to block the programmes.

The stalemate was, however, resolved under the new five-year Collective Bargaining Agreement signed in July.

Universities Offering TSC Refresher Courses for Teachers in Kenya 2021/2022

The training, which will be carried out during school holidays, will be offered by Kenyatta, Mount Kenya and Riara universities in addition to the Kenya Education Management Institute (Kemi).

“Professional development is critical in that teachers keep abreast with contemporary teaching methods, what is happening in the sector, and in the rest of the world. Now more than ever, current day instructional practices must have components of technology, global learning and the potential to impact a diverse range of learning styles, areas that were not key in the earlier years of the profession,” says TSC Chief Executive Nancy Macharia in an official document.

She says the modules will be an avenue for growth of ethical aspects of teaching and that they will also “grant teachers an opportunity for networking and testing new methods of curriculum delivery.”

“Professional development of teachers is more than retooling as the modules will also be useful in promotions. A teacher’s growth in skills and competence will see them grow in their careers,” she says in the document.

It says training centres will be as close to the work stations as possible, the training will not exceed five working days though online lessons can exceed the period as long as they do not interfere with teachers’ core duties.

Still, performance reports should be submitted to TSC in soft copy on or before the 15th day of the subsequent month after the school holiday.