The National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) says teachers trained on the revised Lower Secondary Curriculum in schools will be subjected to observation during class lessons.
The government has embarked to training various teacher’s associations to equip a section of teachers, who will in turn train their colleagues on how to engage the new curriculum in schools.
Among the Associations to be trained include; ICT Teachers Association of Uganda, Coalition of Uganda Private School Teachers Association and Uganda Professional Science Teachers Union, Uganda National Teachers Association (UNATU).
Christopher Muganga the Curriculum Specialist at the (NCDC) 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.
Muganga says they will assist them in class by doing the scheme and lesson plans.
“When it comes to implementation, we must go and do some assistance in class at their station,we meet them, scheme and plan a lesson with them like they do during school practice. You see how they teach,” Muganga says.
He says school administrators should count it a privilege that their teachers have access to this master training of which knowledge can be dispersed to others.
“In curriculum development, when it comes to implementation there are various activities and one is training teachers how to implement the curriculum. When they go for master training, they come back with wealth of knowledge to train others , so they should not be blocked by their bosses at school, he adds”
The government through the Ministry of Education rolled out the new lower secondary education curriculum in February 2020 to meet the learners’ needs, especially regarding skills training and enhancement.
NCDC 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.
