Introduction
Quality teachers are the
single greatest determinant of children achievement. Teacher’s education,
ability, and experience account for more variation in children achievement than
all other factors. Teacher Professional Development is a means to enhancing
educational effectiveness.
Just like practitioners in
other professions, teachers need to deepen their knowledge and improve their skills
over the course of their careers.
Unfortunately, the need for quality, professional development for those in the teaching profession all too often goes unmet.
About The Institute of
Teachers Professional Development (ITPD)
The Institute of Teachers
Professional Development, registered by the Ministry of Education, is a
teachers training college (based in Karen and established by an NGO) that is
revolutionizing pre-school teacher education across Nairobi and Kenya with a truly
unique training model and instructional program towards achievement of vision
2030.
The institute has launched
a large-scale, low-cost, Early Childhood Education courses for pre-schools and
primary school teachers in Nairobi, and will expand across Kenya.
Our institute
delivers high-quality teacher education for as low as Kshs 45,000 for a
2-year Diploma Course per teacher. Both 8-4-4 and international education
system school teachers are able to acquire their certificate and diploma while
still working in their school.
To ensure the delivery of
high quality education, The Institute of Teachers Professional Development
prepares its training notes and materials using the Kenya Institute of
Education (KIE) syllabus and prepares teachers for the Kenya National
Examination Council (KNEC) certification.
We have already launched
the program in the first 30 schools in our network in Kajiado North and Nairobi
with tremendous success, and plan to rapidly scale the program to serve more
than 2000 teachers in Nairobi.
About the ECDE Program
The Institute of Teachers
Professional Development has developed an Edition of an extremely detailed and
rigorous instructional materials to enable the teachers from local and
international schools to be extremely effective during their study, supervised
by a team of trained and highly experienced ECDE lecturers who implement a
personalized course support and supervision system, monitored and inspected by
a field-based operations team from head office.
Critical elements of the
ITPD instructional approach include:
- An
ECDE curriculum (unit by unit, research oriented) based on the national
syllabus
- a
continuous assessment activities, known as assignments embedded in the
training manuals that are obtained at the beginning of each unit.
- A
highly individualized support program to ensure that teacher trainees do
not fall behind their study schedule.
Teacher Trainers
We are seeking ECDE
trainers to work during the school holidays to enrich our teacher training
model. You will be responsible for developing and researching teachers training
materials, including teacher training, detailed lesson plans, student
exercises, and student assessments.
You will be responsible
for ensuring that the approach ITPD uses delivers a high-quality pre-school
teacher education to school teachers in Nairobi and its environs.
About the Teacher Trainer
- You
must be innovative and have the ability to create and identify relevant
teachers’ professional development courses and coordinate such training.
- You
should be an excellent writer, especially in English.
- You
are comfortable receiving feedback and making continuous revisions to
ensure the best possible training materials.
- You
should meet every deadline without fail.
- You
have a minimum of 3 years of experience as a teacher trainer.
- You
have a minimum of 3 years of experience writing training/instructional
materials. (added advantage)
- You
are ready to do field work, visit schools and hit teacher recruitment
targets.
- Have
a Bachelors or Masters degree in Early Childhood Education
ITPD team is passionate that pre-primary education is
central to the development of every child, and consequently the
nation.
We believe that it is
possible to address this critical need for schools through new and innovative
approaches influencing the education sector, and that by providing low-cost but
high-quality pre-school teacher education, we will give thousands of children
the opportunity to reach their full potential in life.
We are looking for
individuals who want to join our team in this worthwhile task.
Send your CV starting with
the position you are applying for as the subject and quote your expected salary
to itpdecd@gmail.com
