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"speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Wilson Sossion",
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"content": "THAT, the CBC places emphasis on competence development rather than on the acquisition of content knowledge. This, effectively, means that the teaching and learning process has to change its orientation and in the teaching pedagogy of teachers from rote memorisation of content to acquisition of skills and competencies useful for solving real life problems; THAT, teaching methods, including role play, problem solving, projects, case studies, study visits and other learner-centred strategies, in which the teacher is expected to switch from one role of an expert to that of a facilitator who guides the learning process, and learners expected to take responsibility for their own learning through direct exploration and experience; THAT, the revised curriculum requires teachers to design effective learning activities geared towards the development of specific competencies and to frequently assess their students using assessment methods such as portfolios, classroom or field observation, projects, oral presentations, self-assessments, interviews and peer assessments; THAT, teachers are also required to change from a norm reference to a criterion reference judgment of learners’ capabilities or competencies to determine their progress, including providing continuous, timely and constructive feedback to inform learners about the strength and weaknesses of their performance, since instruction and learning are reviewed and modified based on the feedback; THAT, recent research studies by various groups, including the Kenya National Union of Teachers, revealed that Kenyan schools are woefully unprepared to implement the CBC system, which is phasing out the 8-4-4 system, and concluded that implementation of the CBC was hurriedly undertaken while a majority of teachers were not sufficiently trained in CBC content and teaching methods; THAT, the same reports noted that the resources and infrastructure required for learning, assessment and capacity building under the CBC are non-existent or inadequate, and that parents and other stakeholders have not been involved in the reform process nor have public awareness campaigns been conducted following the roll-out of CBC; THAT, additional challenges include inadequate human and material resources, incongruence between content and pedagogical practices, poor public participation and lack of alignment between CBC formulation, teacher capacity development, selection and supply of learning materials and assessment that have all led to poor implementation and unavailability of relevant CBC materials; THAT, the curriculum was poorly planned and hastily introduced in schools without taking into considerations the country’s resource constrains and was rolled out with an inadequate database of basic information such as the number of schools or teachers in the country, which led to the hijacking of the curriculum reform process by technocrats and foreign consultants at the expense of the practitioners; THAT, as a direct consequence of these fundamental failures, the role of teachers in curriculum design became marginal while the curriculum was framed and mystified by obscurities that have made CBC to be viewed as an elitist intervention with teachers being burdened by complex procedures for developing learning programmes; THAT, efforts by parents and other education stakeholders to resolve the matters have been futile; THAT, Section 41 of the Basic Education Act (No. 4 of 2013) recognises the 8-4-4 system as a legal education system to be offered by Kenyan schools by the Government of Kenya and that the law has not been amended, rendering the CBC illegal; and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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