Why skills development is key to new curriculum

Education CS Amina Mohamed flags off a lorry carrying the competency-based curriculum textbooks on January 7. [Beverlyne Musili, Standard]

The new Competence Based curriculum is underway. For majority of learners it begins in Grade 1, for those who had undergone the Grade 3 pilot curriculum, it should be Grade 4. What is not clear to teachers is what pupils who experienced the piloted curriculum should be taught.

In the majority of schools we have visited, learners have gone to standard 4 on old curriculum. They were not assessed externally at Grade 3 as required by the Basic Education Curriculum Framework. In the strictest sense, the piloting was thus never completed.