Professional Development Centre
Our teachers are committed to continuing professional development to give students an educational experience based on current best practice. We also offer training for educators and school leaders around the country, sharing knowledge to benefit other schools.
Our teachers are dedicated to developing themselves as well as our students. Teachers have timetable collaboration time every week and have a weekly professional development session. Each session has a specific focus where teachers have input from an expert or share good practice between and across teams. Each teacher has personal development goals and reflects on their own practice. AKA Mombasa teachers also collaborate with and learn from colleagues around the Academies Network to share their experience. The Academy hosts IB workshops led by external facilitators annually. In addition, many of our teachers are IB examiners and IB workshops leaders themselves and share their expertise with their colleagues.
“The biggest strength of the TPP is the clear development of solid professional identities guided by a well thought out personal philosophy of education. The newly graduated teachers have developed into life-long learners committed to applying responsive teaching practices to impact the world.” Dr. Tom Abuto, Teacher Preparation Programme Coordinator
Educational instructors at the Professional Development Centre work with local NGOs and government education bodies to support government teachers and national education priorities, and have developed outreach programmes for government, private and not-for-profit schools.
Training topics include:
With post-course support for participants and a community feel throughout, we are creating a network of collaborative teachers and school leaders, ready to help each other raise the next generation.
Training topics include:
With post-course support for participants and a community feel throughout, we are creating a network of collaborative teachers and school leaders, ready to help each other raise the next generation.
have participated in A Balanced Reading Approach for Children Always Designed to Achieve Best Results for All (ABRACADABRA), benefiting over 27,000 learners in the last 4 years.
have graduated from the Teacher Training Programme in the last 5 years.
have been promoted to higher levers which included Chief Education Officers in the Counties Nationals.
Teachers preparing for A Balanced Reading Approach for Children Always Designed to Achieve Best Results for All (ABRACADABRA).
The 2020 cohort of the Teacher Training Programme was a combination of four Kenyans and four Mozambicans. Pictured are students from the Kenyan cohort with Dr. Tom Abuto (center). |
The Professional Development Centre aims to strengthen the profession of teaching in the region by investing substantially in teachers’ professional development.
