This archive report was first published on 20 August 2020.
On August 20, 2020, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) announced the registration of 224,494 teachers for the community learning programme, which accounts for 67% of the 337,432 teachers employed by the commission.
The TSC aims to register the remaining 112,938 teachers by Friday, requiring them to register with education officials within their locality to facilitate planning of face-to-face lessons.
The community learning programme targets over 10 million learners in public schools that are not offering virtual lessons, with the children having been home since March when schools were shut to contain the spread of Covid-19.
The programme has drawn support from the two main teachers' unions, Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) and the Kenya National Union of Teachers, with KUPPET opposing the provision of risk allowance pitched by KNUT.
During the face-to-face lessons, teachers will engage learners on life skills and values such as weeding, cultivating, grazing animals, storytelling, planting, debating life issues, and hygiene, among others.
