TSC Latest Update On Deployment Of P1 Teachers To Junior High

By Getrude Mathayo / Published January 26, 2023 | 1:59 pm

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It is estimated that around 17,000 primary school teachers have qualifications to teach in secondary school. Though some teachers submitted their Diplomas and Degree certificates to the Commission and received acknowledgment letters, TSC still ordered the fresh listing of the teachers.

Schools have reopened and questions have risen over among other details, the guidelines, infrastructure, and teachers’ utilization. It is now evident that the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will deploy practicing P1 teachers to teach in the junior secondary in February 2023.

The TSC had ordered to be furnished with details of primary school teachers with qualifications to teach in junior secondary schools. According to TSC, only classroom teachers will be posted to teach in the junior secondary section starting at Grade 7 later next month.

The TSC is hatching a plan to vet all primary school teachers with Degree and Diploma certificates in secondary options with a view to deploying them to Grade 7 classes.

The teachers with the right subject combination will be deployed within the same primary school if there exists a junior secondary section. The vetting of the teachers is still not yet clear whether it will happen at the County or Sub County level.

Details that TSC wanted the school heads to provide urgently through an excel template included; TSC number, Name, and Gender of the teacher, School/Institution, Sub County, KCSE Mean Grade, Qualification i.e. DIP, BED, Subject Combination, KCSE Subject Grade e.g MAT C+ & PHY B-, Year of Graduation, Year of Birth and Mobile Number.

TSC chief executive officer Nancy Macharia said the teachers who were already trained on the junior secondary curriculum will retool the newly hired teachers.

“We target to train 90,000 teachers between January and April,” Macharia said.

The junior secondary school has opened a door of opportunities for the promotion of primary school classroom teachers who upgraded their PTE certificates to Diploma and Degree certificates. However, TSC is still adamant that only primary school teachers with qualifications to teach in secondary school will be allowed to teach in junior secondary.