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TOTE

MK

Training Trainers for Teacher Education and Management in Kenya

HEI ICI 2020 – 2024

Project supported by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Seija Karppinen 10.9.2020

PARTNERS

– University of Helsinki, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Helsinki, Finland (Coordinator) –Responsible Coordinator and Contact Details: Seija Karppinen, seija.karppinen(et)helsinki.fi

– Laurea - University of Applied Sciences, Vantaa, Finland

– University of Nairobi, School of Education, Nairobi, Kenya

– Strathmore University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nairobi, Kenya

– Pwani University, School of Education, Kilifi, Kenya

Sub-contractive stakeholders and associate partners:

– xEdu, Finnish business accelerator, for activating a dialogue between Kenyan universities and edtech companies and to boost the local startup ecosystem in the education sector.

– In addition collaboration among others with Kenyan Ministry of Education, Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development, Kenya Teacher Service Commission, Kenya Commission of University Education, Finn Church Aid, and other local educational authorities and stakeholders


AIMS of the TOTEMK project

Quality in-service training

Scalable model

Blended learning

Training trainers


Training packages, MOOC,

and seminars

– 21st century teaching and learning skills

– Strengthening technology enhanced learning

– Pedagogical leadership and management in school related to CBC

– Socio-cultural issues to empower teacher’s work

– Further Trainings at 20 PC HEIs supported by mobile mentoring

– A jointly built MOOC based on the Training packages

– Multi-stakeholder Seminars/workshops for dissemination, exploitation of good practices, and institutional development.

– staff capacity building through exchange visits (Ken->Fin, Fin->Ken)

– Closing seminar with education stakeholders

Participants from20 Kenyan HEIsdelivering teacher education


The long-run impact

- Teachers’ better employment rate in the labor market and more teachers that are competent to deliver tuition in line with CBC.

- More teachers able to use blended learning methods

- Better learning outcomes of students in varied educational levels – Significant number of trained teachers to be good instructors and facilitators for better student learning outcomes with up-to-date learning methods

- More non-academic students/teachers have access to higher education via MOOC

- HEIs and teachers collaborating with edTech solution


Thank you !


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