After the successful first phase of promotional interviews that mainly involved primary school teachers, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is now set for the second and final phase.
In this round, teachers, their administrators, and Curriculum Support Officers (CSOs) will face panellists at the county and regional levels. High school teachers and their administrators need not worry, as the process mirrors the recently concluded exercise.
The process is basically more of a document verification than an interview. According to hundreds of primary school tutors who have thoroughly revised education policies and TSC functions in preparation for the showdown with the panellists, the exercise only requires one to be equipped and armed with the requirements stated in the invitation letters.
The panellists will require teachers to present their identification cards, invitation letters, academic and professional certificates, and evidence showing that they are trainers with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), Teacher Induction Mentorship and Empowerment (TIME) programme, Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), or the Centre for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education in Africa (CEMASTEA) at the county level.
Teachers are also expected to provide proof of whether the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has contracted them as markers or item developers, or if the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) has engaged them as book evaluators at any given time.
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Another crucial area that will earn teachers marks is whether they have acted as the head of the institution. Here, the teachers are also expected to arm themselves with evidence to that effect. Teachers who have acted for a number of years are expected to bag more marks that will easily catapult them to the next job group.
Teachers are expected to prepare adequately for the process to avoid the humorous yet stressful scenarios witnessed last week in some interview venues.
“A teacher entered the interview room and, upon being requested to produce his identification card, he produced his wife’s. On realising, the tutor started sweating profusely until he was offered psychosocial support,” reported one of the panellists who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Teacher performance and appraisal development (TPAD) summaries for the years 2022,2023, and 2024 should be available.Teachers in some venues are expected to have calculated the average for the three.
Education News has learnt that an average score of over 81 percent earns a teacher a whopping ten out of ten marks. The interview has been described as age-based, intended to promote the elderly and those who have stagnated in one job group for quite some time.
TSC is expected to interview over 35,000 secondary school teachers and about 600 CSOs in the last phase of its interviews. Education News wishes our tutors the best as they prepare to face the panellists.
By Naboth Murunga
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