Implementation of Cooperative Teaching and Learning Methodology in Day Secondary Schools in Nyeri County- Kenya

Abstract

Education is a very important tool in economic growth of any county. That is the reason as to why the government has placed measures to ensure both boys and girls in the country get equal chances of quality education without discrimination, for instance the government introduced free primary education in January 2003 and in 2008 a policy was made to introduce free secondary education by the parents are only required to pay for only meals. The government in conjunction with the teacher service commission (TSC) has also ensured that teachers get adequate training so that they are able to deliver the knowledge to the students. Teaching methodology is one of the units that any student teachers undertakes during his/her training at both university and college level. The student teacher later goes for teaching practice. This research was carried out to find out the factors that influence the implementation of cooperative teaching methodology in day secondary schools in Nyeri County. The factors studied were, teacher based, student based and school based.The research was conducted using descriptive survey research design The target population was made up of 25 day secondary schools in Nyeri County, 5 principals each from either day schools, 5 HODs from each school to represent five departments and 1000 form four students; considering there were minimum of 40 student in form four class per school. A total 1130 respondents from 25 day secondary schools were used i.e.1000 students, 125 HODs and 5 principals. Questionnaire and interviews will be the main tools of data collection