Training Trainers for Teacher Education and Management in Kenya

The TOTEMK project was implemented between the years 2020 and 2024. It was a collaborative effort between the University of Helsinki, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, the University of Nairobi, Strathmore University, and Pwani University, aimed to enhance teacher education and institutional management in Kenya. Funded by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 2020 to 2024, with additional support from the Kenyan government and other educational partners, the project sought to equip teachers with the skills necessary to deliver the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) in Kenyan higher education.

The aim of the TOTEMK project was to strengthen the capacity of teacher education and institutional management in Kenya and get more teachers for the labour market that is competent to deliver Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) in the Kenyan schools. The TOTEMK project strongly contributed to well-functioning, relevant and accessible higher education to the students by modernizing partner country’s higher education institutions’ (HEIs) teacher education, responding to the learning and teaching crisis and developing students’ learning to correspond current education needs. This was done with the help of new pedagogical tools, application of modern pedagogical technology and by empowering lecturers and their students on socio-cultural issues to respond effectively to Kenyan CBC under The Basic Education Curriculum Framework (BECF). In the short term, the project contributed to improving institutional management and teaching capacity in partner country HEIs. The learning/teaching crisis was jointly addressed among Kenyan and Finnish partners in socially and culturally sensitive ways. The TOTEMK succeeded in its aim to provide the labor market with more teachers that are competent in applying CBC at different levels of the educational sector in Kenya.

Watch a video from the TOTEMK project's closing seminar.

Please note that the project has ended and the website is no longer updated.

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