Muganga says the collaboration aims at easing the implementation of the curriculum which has many activities beginning with the training of teachers about the curriculum and then assisting them in class by doing the scheme and lesson plans.
The National
Curriculum Development Centre is set to collaborate with Teachers Associations to
train more teachers on the revised Lower Secondary Curriculum in schools.
The government
through the Ministry of Education rolled out the new lower secondary education
curriculum in February 2020 intending to meet the learners’ needs,
especially regarding skills training and enhancement.
Among the
Associations to collaborate with are ICT Teachers Association of Uganda, Coalition of Uganda
Private School Teachers Association and Uganda Professional Science Teachers
Union, Uganda National Teachers Association (UNATU) among others.
Christopher
Muganga. the Curriculum Specialist at the development centre says they have
started the process of teaming up with teachers' associations to ease the
training of teachers who will be master trainers in different schools.
He says the
Associations will help the development centre get close to the teachers who are
members.
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Muganga says the collaboration aims at easing the implementation of the curriculum which has many activities beginning with the training of teachers about the curriculum and then assisting them in class by doing the scheme and lesson plans.
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Richard
Natukunda Mpaka, a teacher of Geography at Rwemikoma Secondary School in
Mbarara District says they need more trainings to be more equipped with the
revised curriculum.
He says many
teachers have not got any training on the new curriculum and yet the
students are being promoted to other classes noting that by the end of the year
all teachers will need to be equipped.
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Janat
Naujuzi Kakumba, a Master Trainer of the curriculum says since term one break off the National Curriculum Development Center has been training teachers from across the country in their respective regions, and in Ankore region 550 teachers from four districts of Mbarara City, Kazo Kiruhura and Mbarara district have been trained.
She says the trained teachers
are called master trainers and are tasked with training others in schools.
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The National
Curriculum Development Centre has made adjustments in the teaching subjects for
the lower secondary, for example, in the new approved curriculum, schools will
teach 12 subjects in Senior One and Two, out of which 11 will be compulsory
while one will be optional.
Students at levels Three and Four will exit with a
minimum of eight or a maximum of nine subjects with seven of them compulsory.
