TSC’s most recent teacher assignments started placing 1,206 P1 in JSS.
Latest Teacher Deployment at TSC 1,206 primary school teachers have been assigned to junior secondary schools (JSS) around the country by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) as part of the implementation of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC).
TSC Acting Director of Human Resources Antonina Lentoijoni gave regional, district, and sub-district directors instructions in a memo dated May 23 to screen and assign qualified instructors within a 14-day window.
As stated in the circular, Ms. Lentoijoni mandated that “teacher rationalization be conducted within 14 days of deployment, and staffing positions in primary schools be updated in order to maintain the teaching-learning process.”
Teachers who are employed by TSC and hold a secondary education certification are the only ones who meet the requirements.Teachers with a bachelor’s degree in education (primary option) are not qualified to apply.
As per the circular, the teachers who are going to be deployed have to be on the list that the TSC head office has provided and they have to have expressed interest in moving to junior secondary schools.
Latest Teacher Deployment at TSC
Additionally, Ms. Lentoijoni instructed directors to ensure that teacher rationalization occurs after deployment and that staffing levels in primary schools are updated in order to maintain the teaching-learning process.
The TSC representative underlined the need of gender parity in deployments and recommended that teachers be assigned to junior secondary units at or near their current stations in order to reduce disruption. inequalities in the pairing of courses
Teacher shortages and mismatched subject combinations in junior secondary sections are the two main issues that the deployment aims to address.
Sub-county directors should not assign instructors of comparable subject combinations with those already posted to JS unless a station needs more than one teacher of that combination, the circular continues.
KUPPET Secretary’s comments
The move will help ease the acute teacher shortage in junior secondary schools, according to Henry Obwocha, secretary of the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) for secondary schools, who praised the move.
“The transfers are a huge move by TSC, even as we aim to have more teachers employed and posted to secondary schools in the country at a time we are rolling out the CBC system of education, which has a lopsided teacher-student ratio,” stated Obwocha.
The official also emphasized how many instructors with diplomas have enhanced their qualifications through school-based initiatives to earn university degrees.
Petitions urging their advancement and placement in secondary education have not stopped them from being taught in elementary schools.
He insisted that the 46,000 contract teachers be given pensions and permanent status in the budget year 2024–2025.
“We applaud TSC’s plans to hire 26,000 teachers, but as a union, we believe that all 46,000 teachers who are currently employed under contracts should be brought on board with permanent and pensionable terms.”
TSC’s most recent teacher assignments started placing 1,206 P1 in JSS.
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