Rural schools Get Lion’s Share in Teachers Recruitment.
The impending January recruitment drive for teachers will be a boon to schools in the interior of the nation.
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has announced 35,550 primary and secondary school teaching schools jobs up for grabs.
Thousands of unemployed teachers will benefit from the TSC’s efforts to fill vacancies at a time when the government is introducing the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) and the first group of Grade Seven students is moving to junior secondary education in public primary schools.
9,000 teachers will be assigned to junior secondary schools on permanent and pensionable conditions, 1,000 teachers will be posted to primary schools on permanent and pensionable terms, 21,550 interns will be posted to junior secondary schools, and 4,000 interns will be absorbed in primary schools.
Teachers Updates has determined that Kitui county would hire the most new teachers, with 1,475 projected to be hired. 434 will be hired on a permanent basis, while the remainder will be interns.
Kakamega County will receive a total of 1,449 new teachers, followed by Nakuru (1,223), Bungoma (1,208), and Meru (1,120), while Makueni is slated to receive 1,056 tutors to alleviate the severe shortfall.
In January, an extra 1,050 teachers will be hired in Machakos, Kisii, Homa Bay, and Narok (912), among other counties with severe teacher shortages
The country faces a shortfall of 116,000 teachers, and TSC’s most recent initiative will alleviate the load of teachers who are compelled to teach more courses than their skills, abilities, and capacities allow.
“Successful candidates will be assigned to any secondary or junior primary school in the county where they were interviewed or in any area of the county where a vacancy occurs,” stated TSC. Applicants must be submitted by this coming Friday at the latest.
Isiolo will receive 119 additional teachers, Lamu (131), Samburu (175), Marsabit (191), Mombasa and Tana River will have 192 tutors each, Wajir (238), and Taita Taveta will receive 274 teachers.
In contrast to their humanities-trained counterparts, language and science-trained teachers will have the greatest number of job prospects.
According to the Teachers Service Commission, intern teachers in primary schools will receive a monthly stipend of Sh15,000, while their counterparts at junior secondary schools will earn Sh20,000, subject to statutory deductions, for a period of one year.
TSC noted, “Successful applicants for junior secondary schools will be needed to teach several learning areas within the junior secondary curriculum.”
English, mathematics, and pre-technical studies will each be taught five times per week, while integrated science and kiswahili will be taught four times each week.
Three times every week, the following subjects will be taught: foreign languages, social studies, virtual arts and performing arts, business studies, and native languages. Twice per week, students will participate in religious education, health education, and physical education and sports.
One lesson is required for life skills education.
The most sought-after teachers have a background in kiswahili and CRE, english, history and CRE, kiswahili and history, business studies, mathematics and physics, mathematics and chemistry, and mathematics and biology.
Those with a background in German, the arts, braille, or French will have less prospects.
Rural schools Get Lion’s Share in Teachers Recruitment.
