Teaching in Kenya

Here are some of the academic realities of teaching at these schools in Kenya:

• Teachers must have a degree at least one level higher than the level at which they teach. In other, words, with a Masters I can only teach diploma and bachelor level students.
  
• Bishop Hannington’s in Mombasa and St. Andrew’s in Kabare are diploma level schools, and their diplomas are monitored and awarded by St. Paul’s Limuru. In other words, Limuru provides a detailed syllabus of what the students are to learn for each class, and they are the ones who mark the exams at the end of the semester.
  
• All three schools follow a semester format, with 17 weeks per semester. (St. Paul’s actually has 16 weeks.) St. Paul’s and St. Andrew’s average about 40-50 students per class, which means a heckuva lot of preparation and marking. The former has a little over 200 students enrolled, and the latter has about 130. Bishop Hannington’s is smaller, but I forget how many students they have.
  
• Students normally only have 1 to 2 assignments per class per semester, which I understand take the form of fairly extensive research papers. They have intense final exams in the form of essay questions, exams which are given and marked by Limuru.
  
• Instructors are expected to provide fairly detailed notes/outlines for the students. When the resources aren’t easily available to the students, the instructor reads the books, then outlines them and gives the notes to the students.
  
• Instructors at all three schools carry heavy loads, a minimum of three courses per semester. There is also the expectation to participate in daily life at the school, as well as moderate small groups.Because of my strengths, I would most likely be teaching New Testament courses, with the possibility in some places of teaching or assisting in Biblical Greek. I should be prepared to teach just about anything, however.