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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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TSC: List of Consequences for TPD Failures; Teachers who fail in TPD Modules at least twice to face the following consequences

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TSC: List of Consequences for TPD Failures; Teachers who fail in TPD Modules at least twice to face the following consequences

Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will weed out teachers who constantly present poor performance in Teacher Professional Development (TPD) training programme.

 

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Sources say the Commission’s plan is to remain with a sophisticated pool of employees that is equipped with modern trends of education.

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A concept report shows TSC has established that most teachers are inadequately trained while some do not adhere to prescribed professional standards, which adversely affect performance.

 

 

 

The teachers’ employer says the recent trends in Primary Teacher Education (PTE) revealed teachers’ weaknesses in ineffective teaching strategies, preparation of professional records, poor classroom management, incompetency in handling learners with special needs and weak assessment and feedback skills that necessitates the training.

 

 

 

 

 

TSC says some school heads are not able to analyse books of accounts, communicate effectively with teachers and parents, build a spirit of shared goals for school improvement and also have poor resource utilisation abilities.

 

 

 

 

 

In addition to these, TSC says content knowledge among a majority of teachers does not attain the set benchmark in English, Mathematics and Science due to poor content mastery.

 

 

 

It is against this backdrop that TSC is seeking to provide teachers with professional training and support throughout their teaching career.

 

 

 

TSC launched TPD programme on 22nd September 2021 and has since escalated campaigns for teachers to register for training which starts in December 2021.

 

 

 

The Commission says it has a statutory mandate through TSC Act 2012 section 11(e) to facilitate professional development for teachers.

 

 

 

“Section 35(2)(a) and (b) of the Act and Regulations 48 & 49 of Code of Regulations for Teachers states that, all teachers are obligated to undertake professional development courses as prescribed by the Commission from time to time,” reads TPD framework.

 

 

 

Despite TPD Service Providers wooing teachers to enroll for the programme, the numbers have refused to soar with most teachers choosing to abstain.

 

 

 

 

 

However the latest revelation that teachers who will fail their TPD tests will have only one chance to re-sit has left a section of TSC teachers shaken.

 

 

 

Only successful teachers will be issued with TPD points, transcript and a certificate after completion of every module.

 

 

 

 

 

A teacher will be issued with a teaching certificate after every five years and only after successfully taking the modules.

 

 

 

Those who will not have taken the Modules or failed will not be granted teaching license and may not be authorized to teach.

 

 

 

Each Module is made up of five chapters. The contract document defines a chapter as a critical area of knowledge and skills in a module that informs the development of learning units. Each chapter will be taken every year and will cost Sh6,000.

 

 

 

“For renewal of the teaching certificate, a teacher must have completed 5 chapters of a module and provide documentary evidence of having successful 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,” reads TPD framework.

 

 

 

According to the teachers employer each of the 340,000 in its payroll must undertake the mandatory professional courses that will inform their promotion and professional growth.

 

 

 

 

 

Teachers will pay sh. 6,000 yearly for the training that takes thirty years.

 

 

 

Classroom teachers will take up modules separate from the senior teachers, mostly institutional leaders and senior staff.

 

 

 

Modules for teachers will include professionalism, pedagogy, Competency-Based Curriculum and Assessment, inclusive education practices, comprehensive school health and safety, instructional leadership, and financial literacy skills.

 

 

 

For institutional administrators, the modules will include professionalism, Competency-Based Curriculum and Assessment, leadership in high-quality instruction and assessment, professional learning environment, building a positive inclusive learning environment, comprehensive school health, and financial literacy skills.

 

 

 

TSC picked Mount Kenya University, Kenyatta University, Riara University and Kenya Education Management Institute (KEMI) to offer TPD training.

 

 

 

The programme will be offered both face to face and virtually (online). Teachers will have face to face training once a year during the December school holidays.

 

 

 

Online training will be offered twice a year during the April and August school holidays.

 

 

 

However TSC is facing opposition from different quarters with teachers unions, educationists, lawyers and Mps calling calling for the Commission to carry the cost of training teachers.

 

 

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TSC Teachers Trending News 2021-2022: All In-service TSC-Employed Teachers With The Following Qualifications Should Get Ready For These New TSC Refresher Courses

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TSC Teachers Trending News 2021-2022: All In-service TSC-Employed Teachers With The Following Qualifications Should Get Ready For These New TSC Courses

 

TSC: All In-service Teachers With The Following Grades To Be Ready For These New TSC Assignments.

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The Latest TSC Trending Teachers’ News Today 2021-2022

Teachers currently teaching in secondary schools in Kenya will henceforth be compelled to teach a third subject on top of the two subjects that each teacher is currently teaching .

This follows the publicizing of a proposal  drafted and suggested by the teachers service commission in the year 2021.

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The commission also suggests that the current education degree programs that are offered in various universities are supposed to be scrapped.

This happens to be among the reasons as to why tsc is seriously pushing for clearly contentious teachers upgrading Program dubbed TPD Modules, Teacher Professional Development.

It means that all highschool teachers employed and those who are yet to be employed by the teachers service commission will have to enroll for a mandatory post training course which is expected to last for 9 months.

TSC Teachers’ Upgrading Program 2021-2022 Updates

In the upgrading exercise , it will be required that the teachers are taken through pedagogical approaches alongside other course units.

This therefore means that teachers should be ready to get the third subject which they will use to train inorder to teach together with the current two subjects in the competency based curriculum that is highly taking roots in Kenya.

New Qualifications for TPD TSC Teachers’ Training 2021-2022

Teachers with ALL the following Highlighted qualifications will be teaching in senior secondary school according to the proposal in the policy document:

1. minimum KCSE mean grade score of C+ or its equivalent.

2. minimum of B- (minus) in the tree teaching subjects.

3. A three year bachelor of arts /science degree followed by a post graduate diploma.

However, the commission is soon expected to clarify on whether the employed teachers more especially those who scored below a B- (minus) in any of the teaching subjects will be allowed to teach in senior secondary schools .

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The newly rolled out TSC Teacher Professional Development, TPD Modules’ history date back to the wilson Sossion era. However, most teachers are still in shock trying to fathom how and why their employer would incessantly fight for the roll out of a refresher program in spite of having been trained for up to four academic years and garnering the prerequisite knowledge and skills before being finally registered and employed on either Internship or Permanent and Pensionable terms.

The Teachers Service Commission, TSC, has now launched in service training programmes for all practicing teachers. The Commission has already contracted institutions that will be offering the refresher training programme christened Teacher Professional Development (TPD) modules.

The first intake will be in December, 2021.

The teachers will be expected to meet the training costs for the modules that will be offered during school holidays. Of importance to note is the fact that the training will be mandatory for all practicing teachers.

A teacher who will fail to undertake the short courses would be deemed to have violated the TSC code of regulation and may face disciplinary action from the employer.

Kenyatta University, Mount Kenya University, Riara University and Kenya Education Management Institute (KEMI) have been identified to offer the Teacher Professional Development modules. A teacher will be at liberty to choose an institution of his/ her choice where to take the TPD modules.

According to TSC, the starting date will be announced once all logistics are addressed. Teacher Professional Development will continuously update teacher knowledge, skills, attitude and values encourage teachers’ learning communities.

The good news for teachers is that most of the TPD modules will be available online. “Many components of the TSC Teacher Professional Development programme will be available to teachers online and will be accessed through mobile phones,” says the Commission.

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FULL DETAILS ON THE TPD MODULES
All teachers will now be required to undergo professional development training six times in their career with each module taking a period of five (5) years. This means training will be done after every five years for a maximum of thirty years.

The number of modules to be undertaken will, though, depend on the number of years that a teacher still has in service.

Consequently, the type of module to be taken will largely depend on the number of years that a teacher still has in service; before attaining retirement age.

A teacher beginning the training will be required to complete seven sections of module one in order to be re-certified.

According to a policy statement paper prepared by TSC in 2018, Teachers will be trained for about five (5) days during school holidays.

Upon commencement of the programme, a teacher will be required to acquire a certificate, which is renewable every five years while subsequent applicants for certificate of registration will be issued with both certificates.

After completing all Teacher Professional Development modules, teachers will be eligible for re-certification and promotion; as the TPD modules have been anchored in the Career Progression Guidelines, CPG.

The training will also enhance the teacher’s knowledge and skills in order to address gaps in the Teacher Performance and Appraisal Development, TPAD. They will also keep teachers informed, enable them improve their pedagogical skills and acquire new, relevant, knowledge in their teaching areas.

On the flip side, teachers who would fail after the TPD assessment will have their teaching certificates withdrawn.