At least 17,000 primary school teachers with qualifications to teach in secondary schools will be moved to teach in junior secondary at Grade 7 early next year.
This was revealed by TSC chairperson Mr Jamleck Muturi and TSC head of legal affairs Mr Calvin Anyuor when they appeared before the Education and Research Committee of the National Assembly yesterday.
Mr Anyuor, who was representing TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia, said the process to deploy P1 teachers with Diploma and Degree certificates to teach Grade 7 class in January has already started.
“We are currently mapping those teachers and shortly we’ll get the numbers right,” said Anyuor.
However TSC insists that the teachers to be deployed to junior secondary are those with C+ in KCSE and C+ in the two teaching subjects.
The deployment of primary school teachers was necessitated after it was revealed that TSC has allocated only one teacher per class for junior secondary.
Primary schools will receive teachers, according to the number of classes they have for Grade 7.
TSC legal officer Cavin Anyuor told MPs there are 30,550 Grade 7 classes in the country. TSC has allocated one teacher for every class beginning January.
“If the county has 1,000 classes we have allocated 1,000 teachers,” he said.
Anyuor said the number of teacher’s is based on budget allocation by treasury. TSC chair Jamleck Muturi said the commission will retool primary school teachers.
Muturi said this seeks to ensure all schools have sufficient number of teachers.
“TSC will redistribute teachers who are in primary school who have qualified to teach in junior secondary,” he said.
He said the Commission will train teachers on Languages, Pure Sciences, Applied Sciences, Mathematics, Humanities and Technical subjects.
The training of Grade 7 teachers will involve these subjects and areas offered in junior secondary school section.
i. Languages – English, Kiswahili, Foreign and Indigenous Languages and Kenya Sign Language.
ii. Pure Sciences -Integrated Science Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Health Education.
iii. Applied Sciences – Agriculture, Home science and computer studies
iv. Mathematics.
iv. Humanities – Social Studies (Citizenship, Geography, History) Religious Studies, (CRE, IRE, Hindu, HRE and PPI) and live skills.
v. Technical subjects and Creative Arts – Pre vocational and pre career Business studies, music, sports and physical education Home science.
The deployed primary school teachers will be paid as same as those teaching in 8.4.4 secondary schools.
Those with Diploma certificates will start at job group C1 while those with Degree certificates will start at job group C2.
The teachers will be moved to next job group automatically after completing three years as outlined in the Caree Progression Guidelines (CPG) for teachers.
one teacher per school? will the one teacher handle all the learning areas in grade 7?
cbc is a very costly experiment
one teacher per school?
Congratulations to all the grade 7 learners and their junior secondary teachers
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The commission needs to consider paying P1 teachers with higher Qualifications salary arrears from the time they presented Certificates of higher Qualifications.A teacher who graduated in 2013 with a degree for example qualified to teach high school students in 2014 (starting at C2).So 2017 he could be at C3 etc.This teacher has for Eight years received P1 Salary yet a graduate!!!.
TSC,TSC!You are our employer.Employers should motivate theirs workers by giving them what is rightfully theirs.we have worked extra miles to take care of these young ones.We presented our evidence of higher qualifications to TSC back in 2015.They acknowledged receipt of the same and to date we are in C1salary.What a demoralization! Colleagues with the same qualifications are in C3 salary and we sit in the same staffroom!Tulikosea wapi TSC ?please answer us.
How I wish this becomes a reality because some of us graduated in 2012 and UpTo now still earning the p1 salary. Let’s see a change
TSC is Not fair at all .15Yrs stagnated and today with my BED am still a P1
Very sure.They should give us arrears because we are at the same level with those promoted earlier.we also need to feel happy and motivated.we have become a laughing stock in the community.Kindly reward our patience.
Teachers need a better renumeration. These two unions are merely doing nothing to this regard. We miss Sosioni
Tulizeni boli. P1 wakae p1 tu. Hizo zingine ni papers
Tsc let this be a reality.mmetuchokesha Sana.
Continue to recollect yourselves and l’m sure we’ll all meet at the end of the ‘tunnel’ Teachers’ punda work itaisha tu!!!
It’s rather disgusting to see how trs with higher qualification are handled like “Okoa Jahazi” others like “Take away”objects.. So sad..no mass promotion like during former President Kibaki that boosted trs’ morale a great deal..Tsc you have failed us as trs..
What of those teachers in primary school who are in C3 a degree and trained to teach two subjects.. How will be their pay?
I shall be glad if Tsc consider the Cohort who graduated from 2014 and above for they have been stagnated enough since then.
When is this deploy commencing and what criteria are they using . let’s Tsc be clear
What are the guidelines for this deployment and which information is the tsc using because teachers are getting degrees and diplomas in every graduation season?
Tsc where is the mapping being done?
Tsc should consider trs in primary who have diploma and degrees to handle jss for them to be paid atleast something Betty if they don’t want to promote them let them be promoted through this jss program cz they are the ones who have been handling this learners why is tsc complecating issues