The new Cabinet Secretary for Education Professor George Magoha just inherited a rogue Education systems where teachers , stake holders used control it like a Mafia system before the Current Interior CS Dr.Fred Matiangi brought order to the then ailing system.
Unlike in the past when students moved through the system like in a factory production, in the new curriculum, a student will not be allowed to proceed to higher levels until the desired learning outcomes are adequately demonstrated.
There are benefits to this approach in the sense that it will be difficult for students to cheat through the system since the assessment of each student is complex involving both formative (where the teacher continuously gathers student data to adjust teaching and learning as needed) and summative approaches (where the teacher evaluates the student after teaching makes judgment on the mastery of a skill or competency).
A CBC is an approach to teaching systems, assessment, grading and reporting that are based on learners demonstrating the knowledge and skills ability in the unit of learning before moving on to another unit. It is different from the current existing approach as it focuses on a single learning outcome or competency at a time, which is usually a small component of a larger learning goal.
New Education Cabinet Secretary, Prof George Albert Omore Magoha, will soon realise that some teachers are up to no good. Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) officials want him to abandon the new Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) developed by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD).
They sense danger in the no nonsense surgeon whose tenure at the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) brought to the fore the level of incompetence in the teaching profession as exposed through mass failures in national examinations.