Gov’t to train officials to supervise implementation of education Reforms

The Ministry of Education is set to train over 1,000 Education officials to enable them to effectively supervise the implementation of the Education Reform the government is undertaking.

“We need both the learner and the teacher to understand what the Competence Based Curriculum is all about,” the Principal Secretary for Basic Education, Dr. Belio Kipsang said.

The Principal Secretary made the remarks in a speech read on his behalf by the Director General, Mr. Elyas Abdi during the launch of training of 100 Master Trainers on Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) and National Education Management Information System (NEMIS) at Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) Tuesday.

Dr. Kipsang said there was need to interpret the Basic Education Curriculum Policy and the Competence Based Assessment Framework.

“We have a task to change the mindset of all our stakeholders and move them from the old to the new system,” saying the government wants, under the auspices of CBC, to “see what the learner has attained and not what the teacher had taught.

The 100 participants of the workshop are drawn from Ministry of Education, the Teachers Service Commission, Kenya National examinations Council, and Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development

Last week the Government mounted a four day CBC capacity building workshop for over 90 teachers who handled grades one to four throughout the country.