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Teacher Policy Launch

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World Read Aloud day 2020 TSC Chair Reads with Children

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Teacher Attendance Monitoring Pilot

Teacher — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 16:13:53 +0000

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Teacher — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:03:29 +0000

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The Teacher Attendance Monitoring Works. “We Look Forward to its National Roll Out”

Teacher — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 14:44:15 +0000

Upon the partial reopening of schools for remediation with students in examination classes on 1st July, The Teaching Service Commission (TSC), in partnership with Charlie Goldsmith Associates (CGA) UK Ltd, launched a pilot project to monitor teacher attendance in schools.
Friday, 7th August, being the last day for the remediation classes, marked the last day of the pilot exercise. Dr. Staneala Beckley, Chair of the Teaching Service Commission (TSC), visited Government Rokel Senior Secondary School, Tower Hill, one of the 43 schools engaged in the pilot nation-wide.
During the pilot, Mr. Aloysius Kamara, Principal of Government Rokel Senior Secondary School, has been recording the attendance of all 40 teachers on his staff list (34 on the Government payroll and 6 volunteers) electronically on a tablet. Each day he verifies those who are present, using their fingerprint or photograph, and records any teacher who is absent or leaves partway through the school day. He remarked: “Before this time, I will mostly get only 23 out of 40 teachers to be present in a day, but since this pilot started, we have had all 40 teachers present every day. This system is simple and it works. We look forward to its national roll-out”

Summarizing the National Teacher Deployment Policy

Teacher — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 14:18:16 +0000

As part of its teacher policies, the Teaching Service Commission’s Teacher Deployment Policy was developed to curb the problem of inequality in teacher distribution across the country as a result of the incessant movements and transfer of teachers from one school to the other without proper documentation.
What does the policy say?
* The TSC possess the sole right to deploy or transfer teachers all over the country
* The TSC shall deploy new teachers where there are vacancy and need, nation-wide
* The TSC shall encourage existing teachers to apply for positions in remote locations.
* The TSC shall consider new and serving teachers for promotion, based on the criteria set in the Professional Standards
Teachers, after having served for a period of 3 years (in a remote location) shall be entitled to the promotion and/or transfer to a less remote location of the teachers’ choice where a vacancy exists. The Commission is on nation-wide popularization of this policy by holding ‘Town Hall Meetings’ at the regional level, starting on Friday 16th October 2020 at the Port Loko District Council Hall, for the North-Western Region. In attendance are mission Education Secretaries, representatives from the Councils, Sierra Leone Teachers’ Union, Council of Principles of Secondary Schools, National Council of Head Teachers, and MBSSE District Directors. Most of the participants appreciate the policy and commit to supporting its implementation.
“I thank the Commission for this new policy and also for the education on it. We didn’t know about it, but now that we do, we will comply and support its implementation”
Commented Fatmata Koroma, Head Teacher of the FAWE School, Port Loko.
Some mission Education Secretaries, who have been responsible for the transfer and deployment of teachers for schools within their missions were a little concerned about their jobs, as commented Mr. Alhaji M.S Kamara, Education Secretary for District Education Council schools in Port Loko:
“I am happy about the policy as it will help the teachers stay in their schools and also foster equality in the distribution of teachers. However, wouldn’t this mean us losing our jobs?”
In response to this concern, Mr. Alimamy Bundu Kamara, TSC’s Deputy Director, Teacher Management, reaffirms that
“The Commission only takes the lead in the implementation of this policy, but will have to work with the respective school Managers/Education Secretaries”.

Stakeholders Meet on the Digitization process of the Teacher Recruitment Forms (ED FORMS)

Teacher — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 13:43:59 +0000

After months of consultations and working with the DSTI team on developing a digital platform to help ease the rigor and pressure involved in the current recruitment process of teachers, we have called you here today as our esteemed partners to share the outcome of this work with you and to solicit your inputs as you are all vital to this process”
remarked Dr. Staneala Beckley, Chair of the TSC as she welcome participants to the one-day review and validation workshop for the digitization of the ED. Forms held on Thursday 15th October 2020.
The teacher recruitment process (especially filling, reviewing, and approving Ed Forms) has been very overwhelming, as applicants are required to fill their forms in quintuplicates. To address this problem, the Commission is working with the DSTI to develop a digitized platform that teachers all over the country and approving parties can easily access for the processing of teacher recruitments in an efficient, fast, and most incredible way. Participants in the workshop were officials from the MBSSE, Sierra Leone Teachers’ Union, CPSS, NaCOHT, Mission School Heads, and TSD District Deputy Directors from all 16 districts.
As the DSTI Team presents the proposed processes in comparison with current processes, participants were pleased with the technological development and change the sector is undergoing.
“Looking at this platform in itself is good news for our teachers. We know there are going to be some challenges along the line for some of our teachers especially those that are not exposed to changing technologies, but this is simple to understand and I know our teachers will catch up with the technological development the sector is undergoing” Commented Mr. Alieu Deen Conteh, Assistant Secretary-General of the Sierra Leone Teachers’ Union.
The Commission hopes that by the start of 2021, all teacher recruitments will be processed digitally.

Introduction

Teacher — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 09:24:32 +0000

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Introduction

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This is our introduction program

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