Prepare work plans or risk penalties, PS tells educators

By Ngumbao Kithi

The Government has given head teachers up to today to ensure teachers adequately prepared lesson plans or they risked reprimand by the Teachers Service Commission.

Education PS Karega Mutahi said most teachers had stopped using the schemes of work and walk into schools without the documents to guide their performance.

He said investigation by the Government indicated teachers don’t prepare schemes of work, lesson plans, records of work and students’ records of work as reflected in the Continuous Assessment Tests.

Prof Mutahi said the Government was worried that poor co-ordination on effective management of several school curricula made teachers fail to complete their syllabus.

Face reprimand

"This is to remind you that from July 1, we shall act harshly on those teachers who hamper effective management of the syllabus by failing to prepare the relevant records," he warned.

The PS was speaking at the Kenya Secondary School Heads Association annual conference in Mombasa.

He said Education Ministry officials established that most principals and school heads never marked teachers who prepared the relevant guides.

"We found out that in some schools, the teachers had prepared the schemes but the school heads did not note them down," he said.

The PS said the Government would not be convinced that schools completed the curriculum when teachers fail to produce documents detailing how they prepared the students for national examinations.

Mutahi said the Government would not allow lack of teachers’ work plans, which is mandatory in the management of schools.

He also told school heads to ensure teachers attended class.

" We must ensure that teachers after making their work plans, teach and prepare children for the examinations," he said.

Follow up

He reminded head teachers that the submission of teachers’ work plans must remain a priority and anybody who defied it must face reprimand from the Government.

Mutahi asked parents to follow up on their children’s performance.