The four universities accredited to offer refresher courses to secondary school teachers are likely to suffer a big blow after the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) hinted at discontinuing the programme. TSC chief executive Nancy Macharia told lawmakers it is considering abandoning the use of the universities to offer the short courses, known as Teacher Professional Development (TPD) training, and instead revert to the existing Teacher Training Colleges to run the programme. She said the decision aims to address costs and other logistical challenges that it faced in the rolling out of the programme.

The universities currently offering the training are Mt Kenya, Kenyatta and Riara universities as well as the Kenya Education Management Institute. “In view of the feedback from teachers and other stakeholders, the commission is in consultation with the Ministry of education to use the existing teacher training colleges as centres for capacity building and professional development programmes for teachers. This will address the issue of costs and other logistical challenges the commission has faced in rolling out the programme,” said Macharia.

While appearing before the implementation committee to give the status of TPD following the resolution of parliament to have the programme suspended, Macharia further explained that their decision also follows the high court decision to dismiss the case against the implementation of the training as well as the numerous feedback from teachers as well as stakeholders. The contract awarded to the four universities is expected to come to an end in September yet TSC has not yet begun the implementation process.

Macharia’s sentiments will be music to teachers’ ears as they have raised concerns over the programme on grounds that it is too expensive for them. She added, “Members as I said this is just the start but we learnt our lesson, we now know better. We have accredited some institutions we will accommodate even more. I want to assure you that we have learnt and things will change in the second phase.”

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She however defended the private universities saying they were accredited to offer the said programme after they applied for the tender when the commission advertised for it She said that it is unfortunate that some of the public universities did not tender for the said exercise and thus the commission’s hands were tied. “We did not lock out anyone from this tender, we advertised and institutions applied, I don’t know why some of these universities did not apply. It is regrettable that some of these institutions did not apply because it would have been very helpful to teachers as they would not have been forced to travel to get the training,” she said.

Macharia made the remarks on the day lawmakers demanded to know the criteria the commission used to accredit the four universities as well as the process it adopted to settle on the Sh 6000 that each teacher is supposed to pay annually to undergo the training.

The committee members took on the commission accusing it of overseeing an exercise that is biased, expensive and discriminatory. They argued that public universities should have been given the first priority when it comes to offering the said courses as TSC is a public institution funded by the exchequer.

The Education committee of the twelfth parliament recommended the suspension of the training on grounds that teachers were not involved and consulted in coming up with the plan. Committee chairperson and Budalangi MP Raphael Wanjala told TSC to explain whether public participation was undertaken before settling on the said programme. Marakwet West MP Timothy Toroitich who also asked TSC to explain how it arrived at the figure of Sh 6,000 claimed that private universities selected to offer the said programme will rake in more than Sh one billion which should have been channelled to public universities.

According to the commission, teachers will be required to pay Sh6,000 every year for the training sessions, assessment, reporting and other associated costs that in the end will see a teacher paying Sh30,000 to complete one module in five years and Sh180,000 for the three decades six modules. “Out of simple calculations we have seen that all teachers will be required to pay about Sh 4.5billion and private universities will get more than Sh one billon from this yet this is money that should have been given to public universities,” he said.

Teacher professional development (TPD) centers contracted by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will for the first time conduct a face-to-face TPD training.

Since its launch, the training has been online with fewer cases where teachers attend the various accredited institutions physically for their training, mostly in the evening or at night.

Already the TPD training venues were identified by the TPD service providers in each Sub County.

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TSC announced the launch of the TPD on September 22,2021, requiring all the teachers registered with the commission to undertake the six-module course that would form the basis of their promotion and employment going forward.

There are six modules in the programme. The training is conducted during holidays. At the end of each module, teachers will be given several points.

After completing all the modules, teachers will be eligible for re-certification and promotion since the modules have been anchored in the career progression guidelines.

Each teacher is to pay Sh6,000 for each module, which would be valid for five years, before taking the next module.

According to ISC only teachers with a teaching license wil be allowed to teach and only to be issued after taking the modules.

The Commission picked Mt Kenya University, Kenyatta University, Riara University and the Kenya Education Management Institute to offer the professional training.

However teachers are looking forward for President William Ruto to pay for the cost of TPD training as promised.

During the campaigns and manifesto launch at the Moi Sports Centre Kasarani,Nairobi, Ruto said his government will pay for the controversial teacher training programme.

This pledge by now the fifth President of the republic is further emphasized through the Kenya Kwanza Education Charter.

“Ensure that all the government-initiated capacity building trainings including Teacher Continuous Professional Development are undertaken by trainers free of charge,” reads the document.

Most teachers are yet to join the training saying they can’t afford the cost due to their shrinked payslips.

Currently those attending are taking the introductory module which ends in December this year and will be awarded their certificates which will increase their chance for promotion.

The December training will start after schools close for third term. Schools will close on 25^th November 2022 and reopened on 23rd January 2023 according to Ministry of Education school term dates.

Recently TSC got a boost after dismissal of a petition challenging implementation of TPD programme.

The Employment and Labour Relations Court in Nakuru dismissed a petition by Joseph Ngethe Karanja who wanted the programme disbanded citing lack of public participation and violation of teachers’rights.

However Justice David Nderitu gave TSC the green light to continue with the execution of the TPD programme after finding the process to be in line with the Constitution.

Mammoth crowds were witnessed at Sheikh Zayed Children’s Welfare Centre in Mombasa yesterday and part of today as school heads were scrambling for the ‘few chances’ of getting registered with the teacher professional development (TPD) training institutes present at the conference.

This occurred after the speech by the TSC Director for Quality Assurance and Standards Dr. Reuben Ntamburi and the continuous TSC/ KESSHA organised guidance and consultation sessions at the grounds.

 TSC directors present at the conference said that all teachers must be under the Teacher Professional Development (TPD) training as a statutory requirement.

According to the Director for Quality Assurance and Standards Reuben Ntamburi, TPD is a requirement under the law and no teacher will escape it. He also said teachers will continue to pay for the programme until parliament allocates funds.

“TPD is required under the law. The elephant in the room is the Sh6,000 for training. We are making efforts to convince parliament to allocate funds for it,” he said.

Dr Ntamburi said TSC has picked four universities to undertake the training of teachers on TPD, online. This will happen over five days from May 9.

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According to a witness present at the conference, deliberations by the TSC staff could have led to this turn of events. The witness, who sought anonymity, revealed that KEMI, MKU and Kenyatta University all erected tents at the grounds from Sunday to receive and register the heads for TPD Training, in a move that seemed somehow orchestrated prior to the event. Sources revealed also that KEMI registered the highest number of heads for TPD since it’s tent had not only the longest, but also the thickest queue.

“Principals are registering for the illegal TPD in mass. Don’t be deceived that TPD stopped and that no lessons are going on. These people have betrayed teachers a great deal,” revealed a witness.

Though very contentious, issues dealing with the  teacher professional development (TPD) , which visible shocked the school heads, were brought again at the conference.

The heads were shocked that even after the national assembly order to TSC to stop TPD until it meets certain conditions, the latter still has intentions of forcing teachers to pursue TPD and pay for the training before fulfilling any condition.

The online training of teachers at the institution on the Teacher Professional Development(TPD) ended yesterday.

The introductory module entered its second session in Mount Kenya University(MKU). However the low number of teachers attending the training has forced the institution to set new dates for virtual training.

The five day training of teachers at the MKU started on 4th April. MKU is the first university to start the 2022 April training.

MKU has scheduled the new training dates to Tuesday 19th to Saturday 23rd April 2022. TSC picked Mount Kenya, Riara and Kenyatta universities together with Kenya Education Management Institute (KEMI) to offer the training.

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KEMI will start training teachers on Monday next week.The Institute has scheduled the 2nd online session from 11th-14th April 2022.

The institution management said its mandated under Legal Notice No.19/2010 to provide Education Management Training, conduct Research and offer Consultancy Services in the Education Sector which include TPD.

The low number of teachers attending the TPD training can be attributed to a number of reasons.

1.Parliamentary recommendation

Last month the Members of Parliament(MPs) called for an immediate stop to the TPD courses until proper stakeholders’ consultations are undertaken.

The legislatures also asked for government to payt the sh.6,000 training fee and the list of institutions offering the refresher coursese xpanded.

“If the Commission is not restrained from implementing the TPD programme, the rights of teachers and stakeholders under Article 232(1)(d) of the constitution stand the risk of being prejudiced,” said National Assembly Education

Committee chairperson Florence Mutua in a report she signed on March 1,2022.

Following the directive teachers thought the programme has been halted till further notice. Most of them were not prepared for the training.

However TPD service providers on TSC blessings went ahead and planned for the April training. Some teachers have interpreted this as greed by the institutions to earn from their hard earned cash.

2.The national KCSE marking exercise

Some teachers are not available for the ongoing trainings because they are occupied else where with official issues like marking of the KCSE exams.

3.Cash Crunch

Teachers especially those in lower cadre, grades B5,C1 and C2,are hard hit with inflation and are struggling to feed their families and to finance their loans.

The economy is not good right now with some places experiencing severe drought, TPD isn’t good news for teachers in this condition.

Teachers are still required to pay sh.6,000 as capacity building fee.

According to TSC teachers who will attend the training will be issued with a teaching certificate which is a license for them to teach.

The Commission said the certificate will be issued after a teacher has successfully completed a TPD module.

One TPD module contains five chapters.Each chapter takes five years. In total there are six TPD modules.These will take 30 years for one complete.

The institutions that were contracted by the teachers service commission to offer teacher professional development have gone against the parliaments’ order that stopped the program until TSC abides by some conditions.

Parliament this month gave TSC a raft of conditions to fulfill before even dreaming of ever taking teachers for any refresher course.

However, Mount Kenya university, among other universities have already launched an advert with application in progress, wooing teachers through dailies and TV adverts to register for the TPD April intake. Additionally, mount Kenya is receiving assignment submissions for the teachers who registered for the program in December.

One of the conditions Mps wanted in conduction of Teacher Professional Development (TPD) courses yet has not been met was stakeholders’ consultations.

They also want the training fees of Sh6,000 paid by the government and the list of institutions offering the refresher courses expanded.

The details are contained in a report of the National Assembly Education Committee tabled in the House on March 3, just before legislators went for a two weeks’ recess.

“If the Commission is not restrained from implementing the TPD programme, the rights of teachers and stakeholders under Article 232(1)(d) of the constitution stand the risk of being prejudiced,” said Committee chairperson Florence Mutua, who signed the report on March 1, 2022.

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The report follows a petition tabled on October 5, 2021, by Emuhaya MP Omboko Milemba on behalf of representatives of Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet).

In the petition, Milemba raised issues on cost of the programme, selection of institutions to offer the course and whether public participation was done before roll-out.

Kuppet and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) have argued that even though continuous training sharpens skills, the cost should be carried by the employer.

Proposing suspension of the programme, MPs said: “That the TSC should conduct extensive public participation as required and take to account the views of teachers, trade unions and other stakeholders with a view of building consensus on the programme.”

The proposal is a major setback for the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) that has been trying to professionalise the teaching service.

In their findings, MPs said that teachers are required to pay Sh6, 000 for each module of the TPD.

This means that in an entire teaching career, each teacher will be required to take five modules within 30 years, translating to fees of about Sh180,000.

“This is despite low salary increments for teachers, stagnation in the same job group and the rising inflation rate which has reduced the disposal income of teachers,” reads report.

Mutua argued that TSC has not made public to the teachers and other stakeholders in the education sector, the considerations it based on in arriving at cost per module.

“TSC committed teachers to personally meet the burden of Sh6,000 for each module of the TPD programme without any consultations with teachers,” said Mutua.

The PTD programme targets to benefit all registered teachers in public and private primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in the country.

There are about 750, 446 registered teachers in the country. Of these, 341, 760 are under TSC payroll. Another 170,000 are registered and teaching in private schools. Another 238, 686 teachers are registered but not yet employed.

MPs also revealed that the cost of rolling out the TPD programme is Sh4.5 billion. It, however, emerged that some Sh2 billion had been set aside for the TPD programme.

On institutions offering the courses, MPs said that it was not clear why top universities and institutions did not bid despite having adequate infrastructure network, human resource capacity and experience to successfully run the programme.

TSC, through a competitive process, picked Kenyatta University, Riara University, Mount Kenya University, and the Kenya Education Management Institute to train the teachers.

Mutua said the TPD ought to have been integrated in the ongoing capacity strengthening programmes for teachers on the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).

“… to avoid duplication of government effort, waste of public resources and subjecting teachers to bearing the burden of a mandatory programme to achieve a well-coordinated and holistic approach,” said Mutua.

MPs also recommend the enactment of a new law and proposed changes to Article 237 of the constitution and the TSC Act to solve the conflict of interest of the commission being a regulator and an employer.

The committee observed that TSC holds the constitutional and statutory mandate of the employer and regulator with powers conferred by Article 237 of the constitution and TSC Act.

“There is need to establish a separate regulatory agency to remedy conflict of interest,” reads the report.

On public participation, MPs say that they could not ascertain whether public participation was done before roll-out.

“Diverse views and public debate on the programme would have made teachers more aware and prepared for the implementation of the TPD programme as well as improvement of the programme by employer,” reads report.

MPs argue that before the roll out, TSC ought to have conducted extensive public participation on the programme.

“TSC did not involve teachers in the preparation of the policy framework for TPD and its subsequent roll-out, contrary to the mandatory requirements of Article 232(1)(d) of the constitution, despite the fact that teachers are directly affected by the policy,” said Mutua.

TSC argued that TPD is anchored in law under Section 35(2) (a) of the TSC Act that says the Commission shall require every registered teacher to undertake career progression and professional development programmes as may be prescribed by regulations made under this Act.

The teacher professional development training which started this week has not been doing well, with majority of teachers who enrolled caught denied access to the training links despite paying for the programme.

Mount Kenya University started the online training on December 27 while Kenya Education Management Institute (KEMI) started theirs on December 28.

Arguing from the post training reactions of the few teachers who attended the training, the training has somehow been rough with some teachers who paid for the training but have been struggling to get the links that would direct them to the training site.

“Am so frustrated. Cannot login I feel like quitting MKU I have tried to reset password with no response via email. Sms says reset successfully yet can’t login,” recounts one of the teachers who enrolled.

Rejoining the class after accidentally quitting has also not been a ride, with the system demanding for a reset of their passwords.

“Hello, anyone who got the link to TPD class to share please,”

“Share the link for login in. I have same login problem on my side,”

“I am not getting on the track. Help.”

“This is a Very frustrating programme. I am unable to reset password to rejoin class,” complained another teacher. These sentiments have been echoed by another teachers, who describes the entire process as frustrations in the chat section of one of the zoom lessons. “Frustrations tupu,” quipped the teacher through a chat.

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“Is the TPD training on? and if it is so, where is the link?” asked another teacher in a Whatsapp group created by one of the contracted institutions.

“What will I do to recover yesterday’s lessons woye,” cried another teacher who had struggled the previous day to access the training but failed.

The trainees have also complained of redundancy, arguing that the lessons could not take off from the introduction and that the trainers kept revolving around the introduction.

“Has anyone received any other lesson apart from the introduction these guys have been repeating since morning? I feel MKU is taking us for a ride,” complained a deputy principal in another WhatsApp group.

“I paid Kenyatta university sh. 3,000 but now I don’t know where to start. No link and no communication. am confused,” complained another teacher.

Some teachers have protested the move by Mount Kenya which initially allowed sh. 1,000 for registration and the rest payable in installments for twelve months.

The registration fee has since been revised upward. Teachers now pay sh. 2,000 as registration fee.

However, Riara university allows teachers to pay sh. 500 for registration and the rest spread for twelve months.

According to the document titled Teacher Professional Development Framework and Roll Out of Structured TPD in Kenya prepared the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), teachers currently employed or serving under the commission and who will not have renewed their teaching certificates by 2027 will automatically be deregistered by TSC.

The implication is that teachers who will not have completed their first module of TPD risk being deregistered and losing their teaching jobs since TSC dictated that teachers should renew their certificates after every five years.

Teachers who want their certificates renewed will have to complete 5 chapters of a module and provided documentary evidence of successful completion.

The teachers’ employer rolled out TPD in September 2021 and the pioneer classes are expected to begin on December 27. One module takes five years to complete hence the implication that by 2027, all currently serving primary and secondary teachers should have completed the first module and renewed their teaching certificates.

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After the completion of the five chapters of module one and certification, a teacher will proceed to level two.  “Upon commencement of the TPD Programme, all serving teachers will be required to acquire teaching certificates renewable every 5 years while the subsequent applicants for Certificate of Registration will be issued with both certificates,” reads a section of the document.

The TPD framework outlines that the TPD programme will adopt two dimensions; the Teacher Performance Appraisal and Development (TPAD) and Modules prescribed by the commission. Each module will contain five chapters which include professionalism, pedagogy and Competency-based Curriculum (CBC) and inclusive Education practices, Assessment and reporting, comprehensive school health safety and financial literacy skills and instructional leadership for teachers. The teachers will earn 40 marks by fully participating in TPAD and 60 marks from the TPD modules.

While TPD programmes are practised globally and believed to instil continuous skills, the recently launched programme by the Commission has attracted mixed reactions. Some teachers have called for the suspension of the programme, others want the employer to provide funding, while another group is pushing the period of the in-service training to be reduced.

The new roll out of the TPD programme was necessitated by the 21st Century demands for the 21st Century learners who are confronted with increasingly complex social, cultural, economic, technological and global challenges. It was argued that teachers must prepare learners who possess sophisticated, diversified and complementary competencies that will enable them to navigate through these challenges. “Teachers just like 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,” reads the document.

Following the shift in the teaching profession, the Commission maintains that they had to develop a TPD Policy Framework which made TPD compulsory to all teachers, made TPD activities a lifelong learning programme carried out in 6 levels and introduced the Kenya Professional Teaching Standards (KePTS) and the use of accredited TPD Service Providers to deliver the programme.

“All TPD programmes organised by the Commission or by accredited service providers will be based on   KePTS , a set of competency standards that describe what a Kenyan teacher should know and be able to do for improved learning outcomes,” adds the document.

TPD programme is structured into six sequential levels corresponding to the competency level of the teachers with   each level having a corresponding TPD Module. The six levels are Knowledge level on the standards (level 1), application level (level 2), mastery level (level 3), mentorship and coaching (level 4), institutional leadership (level 5) and mastery in instructional leadership (level 6).

The Commission states that Level 1 will apply to teachers who have only served for 5 years while Level 6 teachers are the most experienced teachers with competencies to guide young teachers to be instructional leaders.

“Each level will be offered as per the specific module of the level. Each module is designed to add value and improve teachers’ competencies and learner outcomes. TPD Service providers will deliver each module on behalf of TSC,” reads the document.

The Commission notes that TPD activities will be evaluated based on authentic assessment which will include reflective journal, participant led final synthesis and individual Professional Portfolio Development and Presentation. Teachers are expected to enrol and undertake a face-to-face TPD programme session once a year during the school holiday and online TPD sessions during the other two school holidays. The face-to-face sessions will be for a minimum of 40 hours per week and will be undertaken at all sub-county training centres across the country.

Mount kenya University, MKU, is one of the four institutions approved by the teachers’ service commission to be service providers for the teacher professional development modules. Other institutions are Kenyatta university, Riara university and KEMI, with TSC committing to contract more institutions after one year.

Each institution has its own procedure for enrolment.

For mount kenya university, to enroll for Teachers Professional development, one should click on https://tpd.mku.ac.ke or download MKU TPD app from play store and click enrol.

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Online Induction and pre training activities are going on every Saturday at 2.30 – 4 pm.

To join, download Microsoft teams and click on the link https://bit.ly/3GU6MRv.

(For the enrolled use email and password sent to you to login). STOP *456*9*5#

The teachers service commission, TSC, has maintained that upon successful completion of every module, teachers will be given TPD points, transcripts and a level certificate.

Based on the total number of modules, teachers will earn a maximum of 60 TPD points at the end of each module. Teachers will also earn 40 TPD points based on professional learning captured under TPAD like CEMASTEA INSETS and others.

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According to TSC, the accumulated TPD points will be used to Renew Teaching Certificate of successful participants every 5 years that the accredited Service Providers will deliver TPD through:

Physical Face to Face learning

These will occur through workshops at Sub County level. The workshops will take 5 days during one school holiday in a year.

Online webinar

During the other two school holidays in a year, professional learning will be through an online platform for 5 days. Currently only four institutions have been accredited to offer TPD training. These are Mount Kenya University, Kenyatta University, Riara University and Kenya Education Management Institute (KEMI).

TPD service providers must be recognized and registered with the Commission to offer services which must address the 7 KePTS

The Commission will’ accredited various categories of TPD service providers as follows:

Category 1: Government institutions mandated to capacity teachers e.g CEMASTEA, KICD KISE, KNEC: Their TPD learning outcomes must be aligned to at least one of the seven KePTS

Category 2: Non State actors who are in partnership with the Commission e.g Edu Trust,UNICEF.

Category 3: Organizations selected through competitive tendering system. Will use the Commission’s prescribed modules with all the seven standards

Category 3 TPD Service providers will charge a fee for the services they will offer. Currently, teachers will be charged KSH 6000 per year payable directly to the TPD service provider.

More category 3 service providers will be selected competitively through a procurement process in 2023.

The Commission shall undertake continuous monitoring and evaluation of TPD programme to quality assure, offer professional support and give feedback on the training programmes.

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC)Chief Executive Officer, Nancy Macharia, has issued the date when teachers will start their Teacher Professional Development (TPD) program.

Macharia said the training will start in five days’ time as she warned teachers who have not registered for the program.

She was talking in during a press briefing where she maintained that teachers who will attend the training will be issued with teaching certificates (licence) that will authorize them to teach.

However, those who will fail to attend the training, she said, will be dealt with according to the TSC Code of Regulations for Teachers (CORT).

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“A teacher who fails to undertake a prescribed TPD or take a teaching certificate shall be dealt with according to the code of regulations for teachers,” said Macharia.

According to Macharia, the training is aimed to enhance previous teachers training and asked both public and private school teachers to register for the training. She said the training will be purely online.

Her sentiments come few days after the official TPD training centres for teachers were released.

The teacher training programme is scheduled to start next week Monday 13th December 2021 and will be purely online (virtual).

TSC picked four institutions to offer teacher training. These are Mount Kenya University,Riara University, Kenyatta University and Kenya Education Management Institute (KEMI).

The training which takes 30 years will cost a teacher sh. 6,000 yearly. However, most TPD Service Providers have spread the fee for a period of 12 months to ease payment for teachers.

During the December training teachers will be introduced to the first module, Introductory

module.

This program will introduce teachers to Teacher Professional Development and to the Seven Kenya Professional Teaching Standards (KePIS).

The introductory module has five chapters, which are expected to be completed within one year.

The content of each chapter is based on current knowledge and research applicable to the practical needs of a Kenyan classroom teacher.

After the introductory module, the teachers and the instructing leaders will then proceed to the level one module.

There will be two different modules: One for the Teachers and the one for Instructional Leaders.

Level One module will have 5 chapters. A teacher or an instructional leader will take one chapter per year for a period of 5 years but to a maximum of 7 years. Level two to Level six modules will each take 5 years.

Despite some teachers opposing the programme, the Commission has vowed to proceed with its plans to train its teachers.

“It is the question of what do we want best for our teachers, the future of a teacher in the country. the 21st century teacher. We would like to get a professionalized teacher, and that one we are not relenting on it,” said TSC Director of Quality Assurance and Standards, Dr. Reuben Nthamburi.