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<h1><strong>TSC Training for Over 60,000 Teachers on Junior Secondary School</strong></h1>
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<p><strong>Teachers Service Commission TSC is set to train over 60,000 secondary school teachers to prepare them for Junior Secondary School.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Classes are slated to take place in March and April 2022.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Commission has so far trained 120,000 primary school teachers to handle grade six learners next term.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The four-day-training which was organized by both TSC and the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) took place in December.</strong></p>
<p><strong>In 2023 the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) will spill over to junior secondary. Junior secondary school will comprise of Grades 7, 8 and 9.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Pioneer learners under the new 2-6-3-3-3 CBC system will transition to junior secondary school after sitting the Grade Six national examinations.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) said curriculum designs from Grade One to Ten are ready.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Already the construction of the classes to accommodate the Grade 7, 8 and 9 is ongoing. Interior’s CS Fred Matiang’i said Chiefs will supervise the construction of 11,600 new classrooms in schools countrywide.</strong></p>
<p><strong>During the Mashujaa day celebrations in Kirinyaga, President Uhuru made the announcement that the government will set aside sh. 8 billion for constructing 10,000 junior secondary classes.</strong></p>
<p><strong>According to Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha and Interior’s Fred Matiang’i, the classes to be constructed in the first phase will accommodate learners transiting from primary to junior secondary schools.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Dr Matiang’i said the classrooms will be ready to accommodate learners by 2023.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The government also allowed private schools to set up more classes to ease the transition of learners to junior secondary school.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Education CS George Magoha said the government does not have enough land, especially in the cities, to set up all the requisite facilities ahead of the transition.</strong></p>
<p><strong>He asked private schools to start establishing additional structures to aid in the transition.</strong></p>
<p><strong>“Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu do not have enough secondary schools. We encourage private schools with the capacity to set up more facilities,” he said.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The CS said the initial directive was that junior secondary schools are domiciled in secondary school compounds but lack of land appears to be preventing the transition efforts.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Over 8,000 school headteachers, resolved to push to have grades 7, 8, and 9 domiciled in primary schools, saying they had the capacity to oversee junior secondary.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The headteachers spoke during their Kepsha conference in Mombasa in December.</strong></p>
<p><strong>They said this would enable parents to participate in raising their children to tame cases of arson in secondary schools and improve education standards.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Last week, TSC dashed hope for thousands of primary school teachers who graduated with degree secondary option but with a C (plain) in KCSE.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Commission said only teachers who scored a mean grade of C+ in the Kenya Certificate for Secondary Examination (KCSE) would be promoted to teach in secondary schools, even if they were degree holders.</strong></p>
<p><strong>This means it would not be possible for graduate P1 teachers with C (plain) in KCSE to be deployed to teach in junior secondary.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Addressing headteachers in Mombasa, TSC Deputy Director of Staffing Antonia Lentoijoni said although the qualification requirements were not popular with teachers, they would improve standards.</strong></p>
<p><strong>She said the bar was raised by the Commission to improve the quality of education, following new challenges emerging in society.</strong></p>
<p><strong>“The Teachers Service Commission has raised the entry point of teaching in the country to have the right kind of people to offer quality education to our children,” said Lentoijoni.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The decision now locks out teachers who scored C- or C and have degrees from going to teach in secondary school, despite a suggestion by Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary-General Collins Oyuu that teachers in primary school be allowed to teach Grade 7 and 8 in junior secondary school because several of them have masters degrees.</strong></p>
<p><strong>But the TSC insisted any teacher who wants to teach in secondary school must now have C+ and above, leaving those who got their degrees using diploma certificates in a dilemma.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Lentoijoni said teachers with the qualification that TSC had approved were the right kind of people who will ensure quality education to the children.</strong></p>
<p><strong>“These are the people with the ability to offer quality education for our children,” she said.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Recently Knec also issued a condition blocking parents from transferring learners once in Grade six.</strong></p>
<p><strong>According to Knec learners under the Competency-Based Curriculum will not be allowed to transfer schools upon reaching Grade 6.</strong></p>
<p><strong>A document by the Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) spells that under the CBC school transfers will only be admissible to learners in between Grade 1 and 5.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Upon reaching Grade 4 and 5, learners will be required to go to the sub-county director of education should they seek a transfer.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Learners will also need a special assessment number issued by KNEC when they finish Grade 3.</strong></p>
<p><strong>This number will be used to facilitate the assessment of the learners that begins in Grade 4.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The assessment number will be consistent throughout their education and will be used by KNEC in recording the learners’ assessment progress.</strong></p>
<p><strong>This means that should a learner opts to transfer from one school to the other, they will have to retain the assessment number.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Those seeking transfers under CBC at that level—Grade 4 and 5—assessment number will be used to facilitate the transfer process.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The school where the learner was, will receive the transfer request online and click Accept/decline button.</strong></p>
<p><strong>A learner will be transferred to the new school upon acceptance by the headteacher.</strong></p>
<p><strong>“Learners not in the KNEC system at Grade 4 and 5 can be registered by both the sub-county director of education and the headteacher,” the document reads.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Under CBC assessment will be in Grade 4, 5 and 6.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Under the new curriculum, transition from Grade 6 to junior high school will be based on a hybrid model involving a combination of CATs (Classroom Assessment Techniques) and KNEC tests.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Learners in the Competency-Based Curriculum will sit a final examination at the end of primary school, just like KCPE, but the test will not entirely decide their secondary school.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Learners will be required to take CATs at the end of Grades 4, 5 and 6 that will be part of the final mark the learners get at the end of primary school.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Each CAT will carry 20 per cent of the final mark. This means the three CATs will cumulatively account for 60 per cent of the final score.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The remaining 40 per cent will be from the Kenya National Examination Council exam to be issued administered the end of Grade 6.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Head teachers shall access the Competency Based Assessment through a KNEC portal: cba.knec.ac.ke using the school’s username and password.</strong></p>
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