Competency Based Curriculum
By: Mercy Kachenge
The government is expected to transit 2.4 million pupils from primary to junior secondary school. The pupils are to be hosted in junior secondary in January 2023 with limited number of classrooms Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) that was enrolled in the country as the new curriculum that is yet to replace the 8-4-4 system that is still ongoing in the country.
Training of over 60,000 teachers has been carried out all over the country ahead of the transition. Some of the teachers of have been trained in Nyasiongo high school at Kisii say that they are not yet ready to receive the children as they are still young with a lot Pressure on classroom that is to host huge number of children. Moreover some of the pupils cannot wash their clothes.
There are over 10,000 public secondary schools available to absorb the huge number of children as much private institution has expressed interest in filling some of the gaps left as the government seeks to transit children to secondary school. The level of development in our country today will leave many poor Kenyans unable to enroll their kids through the given logistical hurdles coming with CBC.
The Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) is expected to hold two major national exams come the end of the year as they seek to focus shift to CBC children. The Competency Based Curriculum for Junior Secondary will be implemented in secondary schools by January 2023.
This curriculum will incur more cost to parents. According to Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development CEO Charles Ong’ondo said that CBC would enroll more students in Secondary school at a time when they are adventurous and imaginative. He believes it is inefficient to keep pupils in elementary schools until they reach standard eight when the topic should be taught in secondary schools. He added by saying that CBC will incur more costs by stating that innovations will be carried out using existing resources.
Prof Ong’ondo stated that with formative learning and assessment under CBC, the issue of protecting national examinations in containers will be a thing of the past since more improvement in sector of education will increase.
During the 2021 Mashujaa Day festival, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced plans for his administration to build more 10,000 classroom ahead of the transition of students from primary to junior secondary school.
The Completion of the Grade Six National tests CBC pupils are scheduled by the ministry of Education to enter junior secondary school 2023 while those that are still at class Seven under the previous 8-4-4 system will enter form one.
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