De reis – World Teacher 2025
Content is in English regarding the international character of this program.
Edukans Kenya will host the World Teacher Program in July 2025 in Kajiado County, home to 568 primary schools. In 2024, Edukans worked with 42 schools and 2 Teacher Training Colleges, namely Machakos and Eregi TTCs, training 126 key teachers (84 teachers and 42 head teachers).
The region is geographically vast and faces a complex set of challenges, including access issues, gender disparity, early marriages, high poverty, high rates of school dropouts and teacher shortages. Teachers, in particular, must deal with poor infrastructure, lack of learning materials, overcrowded classrooms and have limited access to professional development opportunities. These and other challenges are gradually being addressed through community and parental engagement forums that campaign for education, supported by coordinated efforts from the government, NGOs, and education stakeholders.
Building on the 2024 World Teacher program, the 2025 edition will focus on Teacher Professional Development and School Leadership (head teachers). A total of 6 schools that were visited in the 2024 edition will participate in the program. As a follow-up to previous year’s interventions, teachers from the schools that participated in 2024, will be invited to one general workshop for experience-sharing and learning opportunities. The Dutch World Teacher participants will also visit selected schools for one day lesson observation and school workshops.
Linking of World Teacher with Teaching with Impact
Edukans Kenya seeks to link World Teacher 2025 with the Teaching with Impact program in twofold:
- Active Teaching and Learning Methods
This year’s World Teacher program will continue focusing on building capacity of teachers and education officers in Active Teaching and Learning methods, which remains a strong component of the Teaching with Impact program. These methods will include concept development, use of locally available resources, learning assessmentss, and giving feedback after lesson observation. This will be done at school level.
- Teaching with Impact Training Workshop
In this year’s edition, Edukans Kenya will conduct a Teaching with Impact training workshop for 12 schools in Kajiado, whereby 48 teachers will attend. This will give an opportunity for teachers in these schools to benefit from the practical way of carrying out active lessons. The focus of the training will be on other Active Teaching and Learning methods among them Think, pair, share, Placemat, Four corners, Inner, outer circle and Brainstorm. These workshops will be supported by master trainers. The content and approach of these workshops will be discussed further with the Basic Education technical team.
Competences and Skills Required of World Teachers
- Cross cultural Communication: Be fluent in English, both written and spoken and willing to understand and appreciate cultural differences;
- Pedagogical Experience: At least 3 years of teaching either at primary or secondary school and proficient in Active Teaching and Learning methods;
- Expert skills in Active Teaching and Learning: Know-how and skills in planning and carrying out interactive lessons with learning activities that are well aligned with objectives (formative) assessment methods
- Facilitation skills: Ability to train and share knowledge and experience with colleague teachers using active and all-inclusive participatory workshop training methods;
- Skills in providing coaching, observation and feedback
- Basic filming: Can film and edit basic (not professional) short videos of 3-5 minutes;
- Flexibility and Adaptability: Ready and willing to work in schools in Africa that are very different from Dutch schools in terms of facilities, terrain, high number of learners in classes and also ready to work for long hours;
- Teamwork and Collaboration: Working collaboratively with Kenyan teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders is essential for a successful program. The Dutch teacher should be able to contribute to a team-oriented approach;
- Open-mindedness and willingness to learn: Be open to different perspectives, teaching methods and approaches.
Key Outcomes:
1. Motivated and well equipped teachers in Active Teaching and Learning methods
Teachers participating in the World Teacher program are motivated and willing to practice Active Teaching and Learning methods in their lessons.
2. Community of Practice/Experts
All teachers who will participate in World Teacher 2024 will form a community of practice to continue sharing knowledge and videos of classroom practices and training on an Interactive SkillEd Platform. The experts (trainers) from Kenya and the Netherlands will have a Community of Experts that will work together to continuously review and improve training materials and approaches that will support teacher professional development in Kenya. Guidelines for both the Community of Practice and Community of Experts will be developed by the team at Edukans.
3. ATL Training Videos:
The world Teachers will help develop training materials especially filming videos of best practices. For instance, one teacher can be tracked (baseline video at start of WT and endline Video at end of WT) to show professional development. Filming will also be done to show good practices in Active Teaching and Learning methods.
