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CAROLINE Otieno Post 1

19 July 2020, 2:26 PM

Teacher Education

Greetings.Teacher education in Kenya has no curriculum that prepares teacher trainers on how to train teachers to be.What happens is that anybody trained as a teacher is posted to a teacher training institution.What such a teacher will do is to teach content and not how that content can be taught at all levels.This therefore has made skills like listening,speaking,reading and writing not being taught at all.A trained teacher cannot handle such skills thus contributing to many learners performing poorly especially in upper primary and beyond.Learners who attend good early grade [nursery and pre-primary]are likely to do better since their teachers underwent ECD curriculum as opposed to those from Teacher Training colleges and from the university.The four skills is the foundation to other subjects.

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Kris Stutchbury Post 2 in reply to 1

19 July 2020, 10:13 PM

Caroline - I think you have identified a serious problem that is not limited to Kenya! being a teacher educator is different from being a teachers - you have to be able to enact the pedagogy you are teaching, and be able to explain what you are doing and why. What sort of training do you think should be available to teacher educators?

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Felix Olakulehin Post 3 in reply to 2

8 August 2020, 12:41 AM

Teachers need to be skilled in a variety of teaching approaches. This is not something that can be acquired in a single course of study. Skilled teaching is something that develops over time through reflection on professional practice. Its a craft that needs to be horned through practice. Perhaps this is why there is hardly a set of texts that contain all that teacher educators would ever need to know. Yet, it is important to designa training scheme for them. If I have to guess, I would suggest that some of the themes already identified in this course making teacher education relevant in the 21st century are adequate components of what teacher educators should have in their skills portfolio - along with knowledge of the foundations of education. 

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Michele Deane Post 4 in reply to 3

9 August 2020, 1:23 PM
Yes, Felix, giving our student teachers tools and strategies to help them teach the subjects and subject content they need to teach is crucial. "Pedagogical content knowledge" must be a key component of our teacher education programmes.
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Chimdiebere Joseph Post 5 in reply to 1

8 September 2020, 6:57 AM

This implies that teacher educators should be properly trained , to fit in all situations, and give in their best, in their work.

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