The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is currently training teachers to handle grades 7, 8 and 9 from both public and primary schools, including Special Needs Education (SNE) institutions in preparation of Competency Based Assessment (CBA) slated to begin in November 2022.
Below is the programme of activities during the training.
PROGRAMME FOR TRAINING TEACHERS ON COMPETENCY BASED CURRICULUM FOR JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KENYA
VENUE: SUB COUNTIES
DAY 1 –MONDAY, 9th MAY, 2022
TIME ACTIVITY FACILITATOR
8.00 – 8.10 am Arrival and Registration
8.10– 8.30a.m.
Preliminaries
- Opening Prayers
- Levelling Expectations and Introductions
- Ground Rules
- Opening remarks
8.30-9.00am
- Workshop objectives
- Feed-back
- Pre-evaluation and KWL
- Use of ICT in training
9:00-10:00 am
- Overview of CBC and Basic Education Curriculum Framework (BECF)
10:00-10:30 am
- Overview of Competency –Based Assessment Framework(CBAF)
10:30-11:00am
- HEALTH BREAK
11:00- 11:30am
Overview of Competency –Based Assessment Framework (CBAF) (Essence statement, Strands, Sub-strands,)
- Inter-relationships of National Goals of Education to learning outcomes
- Developing Specific Learning Outcomes
12:30-1:00 pm
- Core Values
1:00– 2.00 pm
- LUNCH BREAK
2.00-2:30pm
- Assessment of Values
2.30-3:00pm
- Core Competences
3:00-3:30pm
- Assessment of Core Competencies
3:30-4.00pm
- Learning Experiences
4:00-5:00 pm
- Key Inquiry Questions
5.00 PM
TEA BREAK
DAY 2-TUESDAY, 10TH MAY, 2022
TIME ACTIVITY
8.00 – 8.10 am
- Arrival and Registration
8.10-8.30 am
- RE-CAP/KAHOOT
8:30-9:30am
- Learning Resources
9:30-10:30 am
- Pertinent and Contemporary Issues (PCI’s)
- Community Service Learning (CSL)
10.30-11.00 am
- HEALTH BREAK
11:00–12:00pm ·
- ICT Integration in Learning
12:00-1:00pm
- Junior Secondary school Subjects
- Languages (English, Kiswahili and Indigenous languages)
- Foreign Languages (French, German, Arabic and Mandarin)
- Mathematics and Integrated Science
- LUNCH BREAK
200– 5:00pm
- Junior Secondary school Subjects
- Applied sciences (Agriculture, computer science, home science and Health Education)
- Humanities (CRE/IRE/HRE/social studies, business studies and life skills)
- Creative arts (Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Sports and Physical Education)
- Pre-Technical Studies
5:00-5:15 pm
- Wrap-up
- Announcements
- Daily Evaluation
5:00-5:15pm
- TEA BREAK
DAY 3-Wednesday 11TH MAY, 2022
TIME ACTIVITY
8.00-8.10 am
- Arrival and Registration
8.10-8.30am
- RE-CAP/KAHOOT
8:30–10:30 am
- Professional Documents
- Schemes of work
- CBC Lesson Plans
- IEPs
- Record of work
10:30-11:00 am
- TEA BREAK
11:00-12:00pm
- ·Authentic Tasks
- Development of Authentic Tasks
12:00-1:00pm ·
- Assessment Tools
1.00 – 2.00 pm
- LUNCH BREAK
2.00-3:00 pm
- Assessment Tools
3:00-4:00 pm
- Portfolio assessment
- School based assessment
4:00-5:00 pm
- Assessment Reporting and Feedback
- Progress records
5:00-5:15 pm
- TEA BREAK
DAY 4 –THURSDAY, 12TH -MAY, 2022
TIME ACTIVITY
8.00 – 8.10 am
- Arrival and Registration
8.10-8.20 am
- Arrival and Registration
8.10-8.20 am
- RE-CAP/KAHOOT
8.30 – 10:30 am
- Integrated lesson and pedagogy
- Lesson Presentation during plenary
10.30-11.00 am
- TEA BREAK
11.00 – 12.00 pm
- Action Research
12.00- 1.00 pm
- Teacher Professional Development (TPD)
- PSS (Pension Presentation)
1.00 – 2.00 pm
- LUNCH BREAK
2.00 – 3:00 pm
- Any other Pending presentations and Questions on JSS
3:00-4:.00 pm
- Way Forward &Closing
- Sub County Training
- Closing Ceremony
- Group Photograph
4.30 – 5.00 pm
- TEA BREAK
