P1 Teachers Branded Hot Cakes. In an apparent attempt to solve the junior school teacher shortage, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has now focused on elementary school teachers.
According to a newly disclosed document from TSC, the organization intends to encourage 20,000 or more P1 instructors to volunteer at junior schools when grade 8 students transfer to grade 9 classes the following year.
To fill personnel shortages in grades 7, 8, and 9, TSC will begin deploying PTE teachers with diploma and degree credentials in September of this year.
The names of P1 teachers with various diplomas and those who additionally hold degree certificates for deployment to grade nine are included in the TSC update’s TSC lists broken down by county.
The teachers commission is currently in doing the collection of additional data for the teachers from Heads of Institutions (HOI’s).
After the above collection , the documents verification and subsequent posting at the sub county level will start.
TSC released an excel template seeking primary school heads to provide the teachers KCSE mean grade.
TSC also required specialization including BED ARTS,BED Primary option , BED SCIENCE, BED ECDE, BED SNE, Dip in education, Dip SNE, Dip ECDE.
TSC also requires teachers to submit details about two teaching subjects with mean grade for those with secondary option.
Teachers listed for deployment are also those in senior positions deputy and headteachers.
At the moment, TSC is facing staffing crisis in junior schools under CBC curriculum.
The government plan to hire 18,000 junior school intern teachers was cancelled following the Finance Bill 2024 withdrawal President William Ruto.
P1 Teachers Branded Hot Cakes
TSC announced that it will not have recruitment this year except replacements following the budget cuts by the Treasury.
Currently there is serious teacher shortage in grade seven and eight and TSC has no option .
As a result, P1 teachers will be used to address the looming crisis.
Lowering the prerequisites for instructors to teach in junior schools is a decision made by the commission.
Teachers with degrees and diplomas in SNE, ECDE, and main option will be eligible for deployment.
Teachers used to need to be secondary choice degree holders with a C+ KCSE score. Before being assigned to a junior school, teachers had to receive a C+ in each of the two subjects they were teaching.