 |
| ToT training session at Migori Teachers
Training College in Nyanza Province |
As part of our evolving strategy in ICT in Education for
teachers, ACWICT has scaled up the ToT training at designated
training institutions in three provinces in Kenya. This
is in readiness for The Innovative Women Teachers Program
countrywide roll out in April 2009. The training Centers
are:
1. Machakos Teachers Training College in Eastern Province
2. Migori Teachers Training College in Nyanza Province
3. Wajir Girls High School (a NEPAD e-school) in North Eastern
Province
The training kicked off on 1st Dec and will end on 13th
December2008. It targets 100 trainees, all of whom are women
teachers employed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
The women are drawn from various Primary schools, Secondary
schools and Teacher Training Colleges in Kenya. This group
will join the 60 Trainers of Trainees (ToTs) who were earlier
trained at the Kenya Institute of Education in the last
quarter of 2008, raising the number to 160 trained so far.
After this training, the ToTs will be deployed in groups
of threes to various training centers.
The trainees will be familiarized with the Innovative Women
Teachers (IWT) curriculum which is a localized Microsoft
Digital Training-teacher Literacy Curriculum (DLC). The
trained teachers are given take away assignments with a
set of Activities and Resources.
The IWT course supports the work of teachers by helping
them:
1. Examine the policy context for ICT integration in education
in Kenya
2. Appreciate the rationale for ICT integration in subject
teaching
3. Audit their current teaching practices against the emerging
pedagogies
4. Embrace the technology and skills for the workplace of
the future
5. Plan and prepare for ICT integration in the classroom
6. Identify opportunities for innovative practice in their
school environment
7. Undertake basic hands-on ICT skills training based on
localised self instruction Microsoft’s Digital Literacy
Curriculum.
8. Use ICT to document and share experiences and outcomes
9. Examine the policy context for ICT intervention in the
empowerment of women and the girl child in Kenya.
10. Use ICTs for personal and professional advancement.
The Trainees are also introduced to the Teachers without
Borders Certificate of Teaching Mastery (CTM) which is made
up of 5 distinct online courses that are practical, interactive,
and oriented for educators who teach children ages 5 to
18.
Starting January 2009, the trained teachers who enroll
for the CTM will have access to the online resources TWB
Learning Café Cafe - an interactive cyberspace where
teachers can meet; gain practical tips for their classrooms;
discuss ideas; share assignments; and see examples of "what
works" from colleagues around the world. Hence the
program will equip teachers with the cognitive diversity
needed to formulate innovative solutions to complex problems,
essentially making them Partners in Learning.
This program is ACWICT’s commitment to Public and
Private sector Partnership aimed at Teacher professional
and personal development. It is also aimed at creating a
proactive teacher participation in the ownership of the
Millennium development goals.
The IWT program intends to take advantage of the time and
distance annihilating characteristic of ICT to promote an
education system that stresses interdisciplinary topics
that would better prepare teachers and students for the
demands of adult life. This will focus on four themes with
special relevance to modern life:
1. Global Awareness.
2. Civic Literacy.
3. Health Literacy.
4. Entrepreneurial Literacy.
Core to this will be the establishment of ICT clubs in
all public schools in Kenya. The ICT clubs will be a hub
of collaboration on access, dissemination of information
given the ubiquity of communication technologies in all
spheres of life, and an avenue towards the adoption of the
21st century skills by Teachers and their students. |
