Education
Will new curriculum reform help meet global challenges
Experts say the current curriculum is both defective and ineffective in addressing the challenges the country faces and preparing future professionals for the country able to compete in a fast changing global market place of knowledge, needs and innovations. PHOTO BY ISMAIL KEZAALA.
Posted Monday, November 19 2012 at 02:00
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The instructional content is to be focussed in seven broad areas.
Ms Kateeba warned that it is ‘early to say we have reformed or not.” Every language student will be required to study literature in the new plans according to Mr Ismail Magezi, NCDC language specialist.
Also, in addition to the four skills developed in language, the teacher this time round, must be conscious of the literary element. “You are part of a system we are trying to overhaul. This time we are saying lets have the skills but also appreciate the language through its literature,” Mr Magezi said.
However, for this to be possible, the body is still consulting on local and foreign languages in the next six months. “The policy says we teach all languages. As an institution, we are saying we are curtailed. We lack local instructional materials, teachers and time.”
Ms Baguma added: “We have to go slow on the language issue because we have implementation challenges or else the policy will crash. We have to consider political, economic and social issues. We are not going to give special attention to one language against the other.”
Ms Kateeba said for continuity, a pilot study is going to be conducted beginning 2013 to see whether they can track the teaching of local languages from Primary One to Seven through continuous assessment. “The proposal is that the marks of this assessment should be banked and contribute at end of primary cycle,” Ms Kateeba explained.
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