An investigation of effective teaching of life skill education in primary school curriculum in Kenya-a case of Kericho central sub-county

Abstract

Life Skills Education (LSE) is expected to equip the learners with psycho-social competences and interpersonal skills to enable individual make informed decisions, solve problems, think, critically and creatively, communicate effectively and relate with other people. The main objective of this study was to investigate teacher preparedness in teaching of LSE. Purposive sampling, simple random sampling technique and stratified sampling techniques were used to select the study sample of 30 head teachers and 68 LSE teachers. Questionnaires, interview schedules, checklist and observation schedule were used to collect data. Descriptive statistics with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) package was used to analyze data from questionnaires while qualitative data from interview schedule and classroom observation schedule were analyzed by thematic analysis. The main findings were that most teachers had not been trained on LSE hence indicating low level of preparedness. The study recommends that teachers need to be trained on the LSE through workshops, seminars and in-service training.