The Teachers Service Commission has outlined an in-depth analysis of the Commission’s performance under the 2019-23 Strategic Plan.
In the last five years, TSC focused on three broad areas— Teacher competence, conduct, and performance management, reforms and innovations in the provision of teaching services and service delivery re-engineering.
Its implementation was monitored and evaluated through various strategies including performance contracting evaluations, compliance audits, mid-term, and end-term reviews.
In the past five years, 35,000 teachers were recruited to meet the requirement for 100 per cent transition of learners from primary to secondary school level.
The success was made through the developed and implemented teacher internship policy and related guidelines.
Through the policies, the commission developed an internship policy and guidelines that oversaw 54,300 intern teachers recruited during the period.
In the next five years, TSC CEO Nancy Macharia said the commission seeks to recruit 111,870 teachers.
She noted that the increase in the general population and the growth in the number of basic learning institutions coupled with budgetary constraints led to a significant teacher shortage.
The Commission also developed a policy framework for entry requirements to teaching services.
“All principals, tutors from teacher training colleges, and deans from 60 out of 90 universities were sensitised on the legal and policy framework on teaching standards,” the report reads.
In addition, TSC developed a Teacher Induction, Mentorship, and Coaching (TIMEC) Policy to institutionalise the induction, mentorship and coaching programme.
Through the policy, a total of 56,519 teachers were sensitised on the programme.
The Commission noted that it built a capacity of 1,712 field officers, 28,741 Board of Management (BOMs) and 38,354 heads of institutions in management of teacher conduct.
To ensure the successful implementation of Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), the Commission used a multi-agency approach to retool 229,000 primary school teachers and 55,125 teachers for Junior Secondary Schools (JSS).
“The total number of teachers retooled for the new curriculum represents 82 per cent of the total number of teachers employed by the Commission,” the report reads.
In addition, the Commission rolled out remote learning as an innovative strategy for alternative modes of curriculum implementation and sensitised 163,938 teachers to the same.
Further, TSC developed and implemented the performance recognition, reward and sanction policy for employees.
