Teaching Practice Made Simple: A Manual for Teachers in Kenya

This book examines teaching practicum (teaching practice), a major component in the preparation of teachers. The purpose is to promote understanding of teaching as a profession and, consequently, the need to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes. The authors discuss the concept of teaching as a profession. Other issues discussed include the objectives of teaching practice, institutional activities that precede teaching practice, actual teaching practice, preparation of teaching documents, assessment of student teachers, assessment of preschool teachers and management of teaching practice. Further, the authors explain how a student teacher should graduate from a teaching practice school, and take the reader through project work and project writing before venturing into a discussion on the concept of Competency Based Curriculum and pre-service teacher education.