Education is the top priority of nations across the world. Initiatives to help children attend school and improve the quality of education in Kenya can change the scenario of growth and prosperity.
How To Improve Quality Of Education In Kenya
Education has degraded due to multiple reasons:
- Lack of proper infrastructure
- Poor pedagogy skills
- Lack of trained teachers
- Using theoretical approaches in imparting knowledge
- Poor assessment/evaluation of the child’s learning
- High competition among the schools
To overcome these challenges and improve the quality of education in Kenya, schools in Kenya can evaluate the following factors:
1. Maintained infrastructure
A School should motivate the students to come to school by providing the basic amenities required as per norms. It should have a spacious classroom with furniture, board, electrical fittings, clean and hygienic toilets, an activity and play area, laboratories, and a computer lab. But having all those amenities without their proper utilization and maintenance may demotivate a child from going to school. Well-maintained infrastructure creates an environment to learn.
2. Quality of teachers
Most schools compromise on quality by hiring teachers at less pay. Teachers are the key elements in the classroom that ignite the minds of children for seeking knowledge. We need to improve teacher quality by providing training and equipping them with modern teaching aids, tools, and methodologies such as smart classrooms and digital course content.
Taking proper and summative assessments will provide a better understanding of the child. Individual differences should be kept in mind while preparing the evaluation tools which should also include critical/higher-order thinking skills.
3. Extra-curricular activities
Pressurizing students will deviate their minds from their studies and which may hamper their interest in continuing their education further. A school should be involved in various co-curricular activities that serve as a key component in sustaining students’ interest in school. It should have proper sports facilities and avenues for cultural events that help in building the life skills and personality of the students. Inter-school competitions should be organized.
4. Community building
Peer learning is vital at every level. To improve the quality of education in Kenya we can build a school community where all the stakeholders along with the community can come together to share their ideas, challenges, and solutions with others as cross-functional learning. Thus, it will enhance the connectivity and productivity of the school.
Improving the quality of education in the school will create an enabling environment that will embed the concept of lifelong learning. The students will remain enrolled in the school and learn and become enablers and productive whereby they can participate in nation-building.