Head teachers condoning the unfair treatment also demand that the freshly employed teachers take up some of their lessons in the guise that they are busy.

“The subjects are under their names on the timetable. Yours is to teach but you are not supposed to reveal that when the education officials visit schools,” another teacher from Trans Nzoia County said.

BURN OUT

As a result, new teachers experience burn out and low morale, the very reasons they cite for exiting the professions in droves. With such burnt out, many teachers say they just ‘appear in class but not engage in quality teaching.’

The teachers are assigned those subjects that have a lot of marking exercises such as mathematics, English and Kiswahili.

But the Kenya Primary school heads Association (Kepsha) chairman Nicholas Githemia said they are yet to receive such concerns from new teachers.

Teachers in primary school are trained to teach all subjects and they must do so. However, we have some teachers that are very choosy and always want to dictate which subjects to teach,” said Mr Githemia.

He said teachers must be able to teach 40 lessons per week.

The number of teachers employed by the TSC stands at 317,069 serving 8,071,662 primary school pupils and 2,761,769 at the post primary school level. 

Over 300,000 trained tutors are also yet to be employed by the government.

Head teachers condoning the unfair treatment also demand that the freshly employed teachers take up some of their lessons in the guise that they are busy.

“The subjects are under their names on the timetable. Yours is to teach but you are not supposed to reveal that when the education officials visit schools,” another teacher from Trans Nzoia County said.

BURN OUT

As a result, new teachers experience burn out and low morale, the very reasons they cite for exiting the professions in droves. With such burnt out, many teachers say they just ‘appear in class but not engage in quality teaching.’

The teachers are assigned those subjects that have a lot of marking exercises such as mathematics, English and Kiswahili.

But the Kenya Primary school heads Association (Kepsha) chairman Nicholas Githemia said they are yet to receive such concerns from new teachers.

Teachers in primary school are trained to teach all subjects and they must do so. However, we have some teachers that are very choosy and always want to dictate which subjects to teach,” said Mr Githemia.

He said teachers must be able to teach 40 lessons per week.

The number of teachers employed by the TSC stands at 317,069 serving 8,071,662 primary school pupils and 2,761,769 at the post primary school level. 

Over 300,000 trained tutors are also yet to be employed by the government.