The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has outlined the teaching workload for administrators in senior schools, requiring principals, deputy principals and senior masters to continue handling classroom lessons alongside their administrative duties.

🇰🇪 Breaking It Down

Under the staffing regulations, the school administrators have been assigned a number of lessons per week depending on the number of classes in their school.

In schools with one to six classes, principals will be required to teach 15 lessons, deputy principals 24 lessons, and senior masters 27 lessons per week.

For institutions with seven to 12 classes, principals must teach 12 lessons weekly, deputy principals 18 lessons, and senior masters 24 lessons.

📌 What You Need to Know

In schools with 13 classes or more, principals will be expected to teach 10 lessons, deputy principals 15 lessons, and senior masters 24 lessons per week.

The lesson numbers show that principals have the lightest teaching load, followed by deputy principals, while senior masters remain primarily classroom-focused, reflecting the distribution of administrative duties among the roles.

Further, the guidelines indicate that as school size increases, administrators’ teaching loads decrease, signalling heavier administrative, managerial and supervisory responsibilities.

In addition, the regulations set the standard teaching load for teachers in senior schools at 27 lessons per week, with each lesson lasting 40 minutes.

Teacher requirements will be determined using a staffing formula that factors in total lessons offered per subject and the reduced teaching loads assigned to administrators.

The formula considers the total number of lessons per subject, plus any shortfall from administrators’ reduced lesson loads, divided by 27 lessons per teacher per week.

📰 Source: Kenyans.co.ke