SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

UNIT TITLE: CURRICULUM PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

UNIT CODE: EDU 201

EVANS KIPRONO

TASK: TERM PAPER

QUESTION2: The Success of the proposed education system depends on the

process of implementation. Discuss the validity of this statement citing

examples from Africa.

LECTURER: SORREY

DATE OF SUBMSION: FEBRUARY 2018

The new education curriculum

The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development has built up another educational programs to

supplant the 8-4-4 framework that has been in presence since 1985. The 8-4-4-framework has

been broadly censured for being vigorously stacked as far as substance and too exam arranged,

putting undue weight on understudies. The new framework is known as the 2-6-6-3 framework

and the pilot, which will include 470 essential and pre-grade schools countrywide, is being

actualized and will keep running until August, giving partners' sufficient time to survey its

viability. The framework puts more accentuation on students' psychological capacity to process

issues and proposes a useful system that sustains capabilities of students in view of their interests

and gifts. It places accentuation on Continuous Assessment Tests (CATs) more than one-off

examinations. The new structure has three levels: early years, center school and senior school

training.

Early years training incorporate pre-essential and lower essential. Pre-essential training is for a

long time made up of pre-essential 1 and pre-essential 2 and for learners matured in the vicinity

of 4 and 5 years of age to be shown dialect exercises, scientific exercises, natural exercises,

psychomotor and inventive exercises and religious instruction exercises though bring down

essential will be for a long time and subjects to be educated will incorporate all pre-essential

exercises, dialect exercises, proficiency and cleanliness and sustenance. Center school will keep

running for a long time made up of upper essential and lower auxiliary while senior school will

keep running for a long time. In Upper Primary, grades four to six, students will be presented to

subjects comprehensive of inventive expressions, with understudies permitted to contemplate an

indigenous dialect or remote, for example, Chinese, Arabic, French and German. Review six will

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be the last year in grade school however as opposed to directing a KCPE-like national test,

students will be assessed constantly while on course.

Alumni of Primary school will join bring down auxiliary schools for a long time between grades

seven and nine. Here, students are set to start to practice in light of their interests and skills with

accentuation on vocation direction. Students will likewise be persistently evaluated in a

procedure that will represent 70 percent of the last grade. The rest of the 30 percent will be

resolved through a national test set by the Kenya National Examinations Council. Review nine

graduates will then continue to senior school where 60 percent of students will be presented to

science, specialized, building and arithmetic fields. Others will prepare in dialects and

humanities while the lay will center around expressions and games science. Tertiary and

University instruction will keep going for a long time.

2-6-3-3-2 Depends on Implementation Process

In Africa educational management is reliant on the leadership bestowed to man the education

system. Like any other project, the core is dependent on implementation. In Tanzania the

education curriculum has been faced with various challenges among them the implementation

part.

In Kenya, The previous Education CS and Current Internal security CS Dr Fred Matiangi

propelled the framework on 30th January 2016 at Kenyatta International Convention Center and

requested that the Kenyans keep making proposals on it with the perspective of enhancing it.The

new framework (2-6-3-3-3 Education framework) was embraced by government authorities and

key players. Amid the 'National Conference on Curriculum Reform' in Nairobi, most members

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concurred the present 8-4-4 framework ought to be discarded even as the nation adjusts the

instruction framework to the improvement needs of the 21st century.

The procedure is significant in the execution of new training educational programs as in

powerful educational programs usage goes past issues to do with arrangement. These among

others incorporate the impact of intrigue gatherings, for example, supports and other intrigued

associations. These gatherings may likewise impact students to dismiss certain courses they think

about adverse to the interests of the gathering. The school condition may likewise influence

educational modules execution. Schools are situated in various environs each impacting the

school. For instance schools situated in urban focuses have a tendency to have present day

offices and adequate educators than those situated in the provincial parts of the nation that are as

yet remote. (Michael Volume 2.2006) Professional factors additionally influence educational

modules execution.

A few partners raised questions on the genuine cost of actualizing the new educational programs.

In any case, the Government said that will be known after the entire procedure is finished.

Matiang'i said the arrangement is to think of educational programs the Government can subsidize

from its own particular spending plan. "Give us a chance to decrease the negative vitality in

scrutinizing things only for it. You should concentrate more on how you ought to be included

instead of the amount you have not been included," said the CS. Session said guiding ought to

have begun for the current month, and all through whatever remains of the year, rather than May.

He said the group that built up the educational modules needs enough time to talk about the

framework, no less than four to a half year, and each stage imparted to general society. "The

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greatest inquiry regarding the educational programs is; would we say we are prepared to

encourage educators with the 21st century classroom? The issue is if this is hurried, at that point

we may not accomplish the coveted outcomes," said Kenya Union of Post Primary Education

Teachers (Kuppet) secretary general Akello Misori.

Misori said the Government should confess all on the measure of speculation it has gotten ready

for the take off of the educational modules, "in light of the fact that there is no uncertainty it will

be a costly undertaking when it comes furnishing educators with required instruments and

aptitudes." "What we don't need is an account from the TSC that they will re-prepare instructors

yet we comprehend we as of now have an intense lack of instructors. This educational programs

is student situated, which means each educator ought to deal with a little gathering of

understudies, rather than the present situation," said Misori. Likewise present were delegates

from the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (Kepsa), Teachers Service Commission (TSC), Kenya

National Parents Association (KNPA) and the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development

(KICD).

These need to do with work fulfillment and expert development. All the time assets and offices

are sparse in many schools making it hard for instructors in this circumstance to viably carry out

their activity. Such educators will look for exchanges to places where they can without much of a

stretch get the assets and wherethey can meet kindred experts with whom to share profession

encounters. Pertinent preparing for the individuals who will actualize the program is imperative.

Different educational programs essayists have under-scored the part of the instructors in

educational programs execution. John Dewey (1920), Ralph Tyler (1957), John Kerr (1973) and

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thusly the educator must be acquainted with goals. As per Omulando, Shiundu (1992) the

procedure of educational programs execution is an intricate one and hence requires a to a great

degree apt collection of members and significant substance for successful outcomes.

Arrangement execution encounters extensive degrees of difficulties. Initially obviously

understaffing is a typical wonder in many schools. An understaffed establishment will most

likely be unable to execute school and government strategy adequately. Also framework

prerequisites for powerful strategy execution is inadequate with regards to, this is an obstruction

to educational programs usage as well. Furthermore sending of existing instructors and their

discretionary usage has involved awesome concern. Instructor quality and evenhanded

appropriation must be tended to. With the presentation of FSE by the legislature, extra instructors

are expected to cook for the expanded enlistment in most auxiliary schools. The other key

measure the commission has taken as of late in accordance with giving quality instruction is

there perspective of staffing standards that have been set up since 1984. (Hussein I. vol. I 2005).

Limit working in educational programs usage has stayed one of the real territories that must be

tended to in the training segment. Different training commissions, teams and studies have

demonstrated that in the dominant part of cases abilities are not generally walked with

undertakings. (KIE 2010). Instructor advancement under the in benefit preparing is a key

technique. There is requirement for persistent change in the nature of administrations through

consistent educator improvement, the method of reasoning being to evacuate existing

shortcomings in the instructor quality and to furnish honing educators with abilities past those

procured in the pre benefit preparing. (The Sessional Paper No. 1 2005).In administration

preparing is basic in proficient advancement openings, school change activities and evaluation

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with a coaching framework intended to help the instructor in acing the numerous perspectives

identified with educating and learning. The in benefit courses ought not be supply driven but

rather request driven. It is for the most part concurred by most educators that the in benefit

preparing got is successful in meeting their different needs. However around 53% of instructors

are accounted for to have gotten any introduction or in benefit preparing. (Service of Education

2006).

Conclusion

All is set for the usage of the 2-6-3-3 instruction framework in January after the last enlistment

of instructors. It will be taken off in the nation's 28,000 Primary schools, as per Kenya Institute

of Curriculum Development executive Julius Jwan. More than 160,000 educators dealing with

early years instruction — pre-essential 1 to 2 and grade 1 to 3 — in broad daylight and tuition

based schools will experience the preparation. The clearer the procedure of usage of new

educational modules, the quicker the execution. The accomplishment of this new educational

programs will depend completely on execution process by the new CS Nominee Ambassador

Amina Mohamed.

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Shiundu, J. S. &Omulando, S. (1992). Curriculum Theory and Practice. Nairobi. Oxford

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