Teachers want TSC to revise their teaching calendar
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Teachers want TSC to revise their teaching calendar to incorporate extra-curricular activities and other mental awareness courses
Teachers want TSC to revise their teaching calendar to incorporate extra-curricular activities and other mental awareness courses.
Teachers, on Monday, April 10, through the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), begged the government to revise their teaching calendar.
The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) released a statement in which the teachers highlighted that extracurricular activities and other mental awareness training were also necessary.
Teachers indicated that they desired some play to be integrated into what they perceived as an overburdened teaching schedule under the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC).
“When we resumed the school calendar after the pandemic, the programs were compressed with term dates squeezed.
“This has taken a toll on our teachers with pressure going up,” KUPPET noted in a statement.
The teachers who had converged at Kapsabet Showground for a fun day during the Easter Holidays were fearful that they would not withstand the pressure.
“We are wary that some of our teachers might go into depression if we do not get a way to unwind,” they pleaded with the government.
KUPPET revealed that some of their teachers were silently battling mental illnesses and anxiety due to workload.
The Union noted that extracurricular activities would be a welcome relief as they would get time to take off the pressure.
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“Sporting activities will be avenues of interaction which will, in turn, bring a positive result in our profession and lives at large,” they noted.
In December 2022, the National Chairperson of the Kenya Primary Schools Head Teachers Association (KEPSHA), Johnson Nzioka, and the Presidential Advisor on Mental Health, Dr. Frank Njenga, urged TSC to address mental health ailments among teachers.
Nzioka and Njenga argued that reports of suicide cases among teaching staff had increased severely.
In response, TSC CEO, Nancy Macharia advised teachers to leverage Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) to adapt to CBC demands and assured them that she would address mental awareness.
Several unions, nonetheless, took it upon themselves to train teachers on mental health awareness.
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