PRACTICUM OFFICE

DIRECTOR: EDWIN NYAGA NJIRU

At the core of teacher training is the cardinal and mandatory teaching practicum exercise. This is expected to give the teacher trainees an opportunity to put into practice the theory learnt in class. In class, they learn to be teachers and its during teaching practicum, they get to practice to be teachers.

Under both the regular and the upgrade to diploma courses, teaching practicum is going to be conducted differently from how it has been run at the certificate level for both DPTE and DECTE levels, in that it is going to be preceded by micro-teaching and coaching and mentorship.

Micro teaching at the college level is going to be a very important for the student teacher to get to build his/her confidence before getting to a real   interaction with learners in class. Later, the student teachers will be posted to the field where they will be placed under teacher-mentors. Teacher-mentors and institutional heads will complement the college supervisors by walking our teacher trainees when they are learning the ropes from the day they report to school through to the day the teaching practicum ends. They will monitor, mentor and counsel our teacher trainees on a daily basis thereby providing them with a living mirror of the kind of teacher that is expected of them. With this training and practice, we hope to have CBC compliant teachers who are well equipped at dealing with any of the challenges that they may encounter out there in the field.