TSC deployment of 3,600 promotion slots from September.
3,600 primary and secondary school teachers will be assigned by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to work in special education programs and units.
The deployment will begin in September of this year, according to TSC Chief Executive Officer Nancy Macharia, who made this announcement on Tuesday during her appearance before the Cohesion and Equal Opportunities Committee.
According to Macharia, there would be additional deployments in January and June of the following year. Teachers holding diplomas and degrees in special needs education (SNE) are the target audience for TSC.
In order to alleviate the acute teacher shortage in special schools, the Commission will assign the teachers.
Macharia informed the Hon. Adan Haji-led Committee, “Due to budget constraints, the Commission has developed a phased deployment of teachers to Special needs schools to address the shortage.”
The Committee was also told that there was a 5,362 teacher shortage in the nation’s Special Needs Schools.
According to Macharia, in May 2024, TSC employed and placed 1,763 instructors in classrooms.
In accordance with their areas of specialization, primary school instructors with diplomas in SNE will be assigned to work in special schools and units for elementary students.
Macharia also disclosed that teachers who are physically disabled, blind, deaf, or mute now qualify for the Readers Facilitation or Aid allowance.
According to Ms. Macharia, “special school allowances are also another incentive introduced to teachers with special education skills.”
“As one way of recognizing the additional challenges facing the teachers, these incentives are in addition to standard allowances such as hardship and commuter among others,” the said.
She continued by saying that the Commission has also created and put into effect a special staffing standard for special education schools.
According to Ms. Macharia, each teacher’s class size is determined by the kind and degree of the students’ disabilities.
For instance, a class with four students should be used for mentally challenged students, whereas a class with fifteen students should be used for physically challenged kids, the speaker continued.
She went on to say that the action was taken to make sure teachers give students with special needs enough attention.
“It is better to have fewer special needs students per teacher in order to provide high-quality services,” stated Ms. Macharia.
Although she acknowledged that more work needed to be done, the session was presided over by Hon. Liza Chelule, the deputy chairperson of the Committee, who congratulated the Commission for its efforts to improve the welfare of teachers in special needs schools.
“The Committee found that the schools and teachers operated in appalling conditions after visiting special needs schools in portions of Coast, Nyanza, Western, and Rift Valley,” the MP for Nakuru County stated.
According to Shinyalu MP Hon. Fred Ikana, the hardships experienced by special school instructors deterred their peers from applying for positions in the establishments, which resulted in a scarcity.
TSC deployment of 3,600 promotion slots from September.
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