The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has expressed concerns over a teaching delivery monitoring tool being implemented by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to track the conduct of teaching programmes in schools.
KNUT is opposed to the Teachers Performance Appraisal and Development tool (TPAD) saying it may be used to victimize teachers when seeking promotion and unfairly blame them for pot performance.
According to the Chepkoilel branch, KNUT Secretary General Sammy Bor, TPAD instrument could be used by TSC to frustrate teachers in issues they have no direct influence on, like dwindling performance of candidates at national examinations.
"The instrument is taking too much time from the teachers filling the detailed document instead of teaching," said Bor in Eldoret town, Monday.
"This TPAD document has reduced teachers to clerks to the detriment of teacher-student quality contact time in class," he added.
Bor claimed that teachers countrywide are feeling intimidated and age fearfully by the kind of commitment the tool is demanding of them.
TSC states that the purpose of TPAD is to improve teaching standards through a systemic approval with a view to evaluate teacher's performance and promote professional development for enhanced learning outcomes.