Archive for February, 2008

IHEDS Trains Secondary School Teachers in Leadership
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Kenyan teachers at Strathmore IHEDS Leadership Colloquium
Kenyan teachers attend Strathmore leadership colloquium

 

Strathmore’s Institute of Humanities and Education Studies (IHEDS) has launched its Teacher Education Program (TEP), a three-year initiative to enhance leadership skills for head teachers countrywide. The Kshs 26 million program was funded by Project Harambee, which promotes educational programs in Africa.

 Institute of Humanities and Education Studies (IHEDS) has launched its Teacher Education Program (TEP), a three-year initiative to enhance leadership skills for head teachers countrywide. The Kshs 26 million program was funded by Project Harambee, which promotes educational programs in Africa.

 Titled the “Art of Leadership,” the program will address leadership styles and team building skills, the revitalization of virtues, contemporary challenges facing head teachers, hygiene and its impact on the school and its environs, drugs, dropouts, HIV and AIDS, and working with parents and financial management.

Head teachers will attend 5-day seminars at the university’s Madaraka campus in Nairobi. Strathmore is liaising with District Education Officers to identify and invite attendees. Teachers from Nairobi were invited through the City’s Director of Education, said Mr. Patrick Kibui, former Principal of Kenya Science Teachers’ College and the co-coordinator of the program.

Margaret Roche, Director of IHEDS, reports that 1349 teachers have already been trained under TEP. Thanks to Project Harambee, this number will rise significantly. TEP aims at building Kenyan teacher capacity with skills in effective management while boosting morale to train and prepare young people for citizenship through good character, morals, and self-discipline.