Govt to pilot new curriculum, Matiangi says

Govt to pilot new curriculum, Matiangi says

The government will pilot the new school curriculum it is preparing before it implements it across the country, Cabinet Secretary for Education Dr. Fred Matiang’i has said.

Speaking during a breakfast meeting with the members of National Assembly’s Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology in a Nairobi hotel today, the CS said the government would also determine the cost of the curriculum before it embarks on its implementation.

“We will be careful, focused and measured,” said the CS, noting that the government was keen on ensuring that it nothing goes wrong during the implementation.

Matiang’i said that the government would prepare the teachers to enable them to provide a competence-based education that the curriculum will embody.

He said the government would establish a Kenya School of Education, modeled on Kenya School of government, to provide continuous professional development for teachers in management, educational foundation knowledge and skills.

Matiang’i added that the curriculum reforms seek to identify and nurture the talents and abilities of every child, to address and match the skills and knowledge they require with the dynamics of the knowledge based market that a modern and industrialising world needs.

The Director of the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) Dr Julius Jwan said the reforms were necessitated by the need to create an educational experience that produces an engaged, empowered and ethical citizen out of the learners.

The Chairperson Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology Hon Sabina Chege lauded the initiative saying it will address some of the challenges the country faces.

She commended the incorporation of values in the curriculum saying it will impart in the learners patriotism that was not properly addressed in the country’s political culture, and lauded the plan to retrain teachers.

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