Teachers struggle to prepare content as abridged curriculum delays
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- 06 Jan 2022
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Teachers are expected to prepare schemes of work before every beginning of the term, detailing the content from the syllabus that will be taught. However, this year is special given the fact that learners have been automatically promoted before covering most of the content in their previous classes.
To enable teachers prepare for teaching upon reopening, the Ministry of Education had promised an abridged curriculum to speed up the learning process by allowing learners to complete the work that they should have covered in the previous and current academic year in a shortened timeframe.
But several teachers are still confused on how to prepare the schemes of work this time around, since the abridged curriculum was never delivered, yet for many, the children did not have physical interaction with teachers for almost two years.
Hassan Gombe, the headteacher of Mulago High School in Kampala says that they have decided to start from where they stopped by the time schools were closed in 2020.
Thomas Kitandwe, the headteacher of Kampala Quality Primary School says that they can no longer wait for the abridged curriculum, and they have equally opted to start from where the learners had stopped in their previous classes, considering that the promotions were automatic for each of them.
Kitandwe adds that they are also aware that many parents put in some effort to offer continued learning during the lockdown but the school has a responsibility to ensure that all learners are on the same footing at the time of progressing to the next class in 2023.
At Yudesi Primary School in Kampala, teachers were also challenged on how to integrate content from the previous class. The school has plans of not teaching learners in the first two weeks which are dedicated to receiving learners and orientation.
However, Rogers Kakaire, the headteacher at Yudesi says that the teaching and learning process will be on in the third week. To ease the process, Kakaire says they will teach content for the current class and have remedial teaching over the weekends.
Lawrence Kasibante Basajjasubi, a senior teacher and administrator at Nakasero Senior Secondary School says that they have resolved to teach two syllabi in the same class putting more emphasis on science subjects that have a lot of critical content that learners should not miss if they are to progress to other levels of learning.
Santo Opiro, the Head Teacher of Unifat Primary school in Gulu says that in the absence of the abridged curriculum, they have designed their teaching content by integrating the syllabus missed by learners in their previous classes with the current class.
District Education Officers are also telling headteachers to ensure that content from previous classes is covered, for learners to recover the lost learning time. Gulu District Education Officer Caesar Akena advised the school heads to ensure that their teachers cover the time lost during the COVID-19 lockdown by combining content from previous with current classes. Read More…
