All TSC Teachers To Apply For Teaching Licenses. Teachers will now lose their jobs if they refuse to participate in the contentious Teacher Professional Development (TPD) program.
The Competency Based Curriculum (CBC)-aligned training is required for instructors working in public and private schools who are registered with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
Teachers who successfully complete TPD training will receive a teaching certificate, which is a license to teach.
This license is renewable after every five years and only issued after taking the TPD modules.
Each TPD module takes five years. There are six modules meaning a teacher will take thirty years to complete all the modules.
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Similar to engineers, physicians, and nurses, teachers will now need to obtain a license in order to practice.
In order to make TPD training mandatory, the Commission has already begun the process of amending the Teachers Service Commission Act.
In order to make the TSC one of the most powerful constitutional entities, the commission has solicited for public input on the TSC Act Amendment Bill, 2024.
This Tuesday, the TSC issued a call for bids, asking educational institutions to submit applications if they wanted to train instructors in TPD by February 14th, 2024.
Teachers who have been granted authority by the Kenya Kwanza government to resume TPD training will do so starting in December 2024.
TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia stated that professional teacher development is a requirement for effective teaching and learning in the classroom because of the dynamic learning environment when she spoke before the Parliamentary Education Committee in May.
All TSC Teachers To Apply For Teaching Licenses
TPD involves the career-long processes and related systems and policies designed to enable educators (teachers, administrators, and supervisors) to acquire, broaden, and deepen their knowledge, skills, and competencies in order to effectively perform their work
“Professional Development is the continuous updating of professional knowledge and improvement of personal competence throughout one’s teaching life,” she said.
Macharia had requested a total of sh 4.2 billion for teacher promotion and TPD program to be allocated in July 2023-2024 budget.
In May when she appeared before the Parliamentary Education Committee, TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia explained that due to the dynamic teaching environment, professional teacher development is a prerequisite for effective teaching and learning in the classroom.
TPD involves the career-long processes and related systems and policies designed to enable educators (teachers, administrators, and supervisors) to acquire, broaden, and deepen their knowledge, skills, and competencies in order to effectively perform their work.
“Professional Development is the continuous updating of professional knowledge and improvement of personal competence throughout one’s teaching life,” she said.
Macharia had requested a total of sh 4.2 billion for teacher promotion and TPD program to be allocated in July 2023-2024 budget.
Below is what the section of the new TSC Act says regarding teacher training and licensing.
Teaching standards and professional development” 35.
(1) The Commission shall take all necessary steps to ensure that persons in the teaching service comply with the teaching standards;
(2) For purposes of subsection (1), the Commission shall;
(a) require every registered teacher to undertake continuous professional development programmes
(b) require every registered teacher to take out a practicing certificate;
(3) A teacher who fails to;
(a) undertake prescribed continuous professional development programmes; or
(b) take out a practicing certificate under section 35(2)(b) of this Act, is prohibited from teaching.
All TSC Teachers To Apply For Teaching Licenses
(4) the Commission may;
(a) enter into agreements with any institution, body, department or agency of the Government pursuant to its functions and powers prescribed under this section; and
(b) appoint an agent or designate a member or staff of the Commission who may enter any educational institution and make an enquiry in that regard.
(5) The Commission shall develop Regulations for the better carrying into effect the provisions of this section
All TSC Teachers To Apply For Teaching Licenses