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    "id": 1120313,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, the Chairperson of Committee on Education and the Senator who sought the Statement are the ones consulting loudly. There is merit in continuous professional development. We should not sound like we are discouraging that from the teachers. It must continue. It is encouraged in all fields. All of our professions, it should keep going on for professional development. However, it is not this kind of professional development. I doubt if much has changed in terms of the core content of what you are teaching. When the Senator for Turkana was at the Kenya Science Teachers College, the Periodic Table has not changed. It is still Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Sodium and Magnesium – I can go on. Mountains’ formations in Geography are the same. The Newton’s Law in Physics, Law of Inertia and electronics are the same. What has changed is the method of doing it; the softer issues, Information Technology (IT) where the world is. The kind of training we expect is not the core, but the different methods as how the world is moving. This is not something that would cost Kshs150,000 and for teachers to move all the way from Wajir or Turkana to come to Nairobi for that training. The Committee should look at three things. One, the training must be paid for by the TSC. It should be done in the regions where the teachers are because there is an institution. In fact, capacity must be developed through the education departments in the districts to facilitate the continuance of this learning. Additionally, because of where the world is going - as Sen. Nyamunga has said and I am grateful - this training should be online. We are trying to teach them the ways of today, how things are going, how to login to the Zoom software and help their children. When we were in school, our limits were based on the imagination of our teachers. For students today, their outlook is unlimited because of the internet and the World Wide Web (WWW). This is the kind of training we expect teachers to undergo. People were celebrating when hon. Wilson Sossion left the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT). They say you never miss the water till the well runs dry. Hon. Sossion would never have let this go on. He was a great union leader. We are not hearing KNUT coming out strongly. Sen. Mwaruma is not in KNUT. They should have come out strongly themselves in Parliament to raise this issue. Let us encourage our teachers."
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