TSC Introduces Mandatory Teaching Hours For School Principals
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has established a teaching workload for senior school administrators, requiring principals, deputy principals, and senior masters to oversee classroom courses in addition to their administrative responsibilities.
Under staffing restrictions, school administrators are allotted a number of lessons per week based on the number of courses in their school.
In schools with one to six classes, principals must teach 15 lessons each week, deputy principals 24 lessons, and senior masters 27 lessons.
In institutions with seven to twelve classes, principals must teach 12 lessons each week, deputy principals 18 lessons, and senior masters 24 lessons.
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.
Meanwhile, senior masters remain primarily classroom-focused, reflecting the distribution of administrative duties among the roles.
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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.
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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.
The guidelines come amid discussions over the role of school administrators under the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).
This reinforces the TSC’s recent dismissal of a fake viral poster claiming that it was considering a proposal that would exempt headteachers and principals from classroom teaching duties.
The latest guidelines instead confirm that administrators will remain actively involved in classroom instruction while carrying out school management functions.
TSC Introduces Mandatory Teaching Hours For School Principals
