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Most Lamu ECDE teachers are not familiar with the Competency-Based Curriculum and mass free training has started.
Lamu has about 370 teachers, 276 in public Early Childhood Development Education centres and 94 in private pre-primary centres.
Ninety have been trained so far in four out of 10 wards: Mkomani, Shela, Hindi, and Faza.
The training aims to equip teachers with knowledge of CBC and how to implement it at the lowest level so children's experience meshes with CBC in primary school.
Lamu Education chief officer Abdalla Ahmed on Thursday said training was necessary because many ECDE teachers are not conversant with the new curriculum.
“The Education department studied the quality of Lamu's early childhood education, which identified the gap. This prompted us to increase teachers' capacity to fully support the ECDE growth strategy,” Ahmed said.
He said all ECDE teachers, both public and private, will be reached.
Other wards in the programme are Mpeketoni, Kiunga, Witu, Mkunumbi, Basuba and Hongwe.
The programme is expected to be concluded by June.
By the end of this training, teachers will be able to design and interpret the CBC framework and curriculum, observation schedules, written examinations, journals, rating scales, learner profiles and projects, Ahmed said.
He said the county is committed to raising education standards, providing infrastructure support and learning and teaching materials.
"Plans are underway to employ more teachers and ECDE supervisors for coordination and quality assurance,” Ahmed said.
Lamu ECDE coordinator Athman Kheir encouraged teachers across Lamu to take advantage of free training and improve the quality of ECDE.
The training comes days after the county deployed five new ECDE supervisors in Lamu.
