The report says that after the evaluation, the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) in cooperation with curriculum experts and academics should undertake a comprehensive revision of CBC for pre-primary and Grades One, Two and Three.

“The Ministry of Education should initiate a mechanism for systematic in-service and pre-service training of teachers on the CBC,” it said.

Part of failure of the CBC, according to the report, is the unpreparedness and poor training of teachers. CBC’s implementation would “compromise” the education of Kenyan children and it was time to tell Kenyans and parents the truth, Knut Secretary General Wilson Sossion said during the release of the report yesterday.

Citing the report, he said teachers could not effectively deliver the new curriculum.“The education of your children will be compromised, we can’t cheat you,” the nominated MP said. “However much we get poetic with this curriculum, teachers haven’t been adequately trained,” he added.

The report says that there is lack of teacher’s with adequate knowledge, skills on CBC and teaching approaches. “Trainers, facilitators and teachers are still incompetent in the delivery of the competence based approach to teachers and learners,” reads the report.

The report also showed that teachers were “generally negative” about CBC roll out and training sessions. Sossion described the CBC as “elitist” and warned against “experimentation” of a curriculum that had failed in countries such as South Africa and Malaysia.

“We are not a country of experimentation, what doesn’t work doesn’t work and what works works,” he said.

“We should never experiment on the children of this country,” he added. Sossion, however, said teachers were not opposed to the curriculum but were only asking to be properly trained.

He was worried that there was no commission to aid implementation of the new curriculum. The report, done over a period of two months, sampled 1,455 teachers of pre-primary and lower primary in 37 counties. Some 305 head teachers were sampled from 405 public, private and special education schools in Kenya. Sossion added that the curriculum was not “homegrown” but was instead backed by “foreign interests” including donor-funded NGOs who’s only intention was profit.

The report says that after the evaluation, the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) in cooperation with curriculum experts and academics should undertake a comprehensive revision of CBC for pre-primary and Grades One, Two and Three.

“The Ministry of Education should initiate a mechanism for systematic in-service and pre-service training of teachers on the CBC,” it said.

Part of failure of the CBC, according to the report, is the unpreparedness and poor training of teachers. CBC’s implementation would “compromise” the education of Kenyan children and it was time to tell Kenyans and parents the truth, Knut Secretary General Wilson Sossion said during the release of the report yesterday.

Citing the report, he said teachers could not effectively deliver the new curriculum.“The education of your children will be compromised, we can’t cheat you,” the nominated MP said. “However much we get poetic with this curriculum, teachers haven’t been adequately trained,” he added.

The report says that there is lack of teacher’s with adequate knowledge, skills on CBC and teaching approaches. “Trainers, facilitators and teachers are still incompetent in the delivery of the competence based approach to teachers and learners,” reads the report.

The report also showed that teachers were “generally negative” about CBC roll out and training sessions. Sossion described the CBC as “elitist” and warned against “experimentation” of a curriculum that had failed in countries such as South Africa and Malaysia.

“We are not a country of experimentation, what doesn’t work doesn’t work and what works works,” he said.

“We should never experiment on the children of this country,” he added. Sossion, however, said teachers were not opposed to the curriculum but were only asking to be properly trained.

He was worried that there was no commission to aid implementation of the new curriculum. The report, done over a period of two months, sampled 1,455 teachers of pre-primary and lower primary in 37 counties. Some 305 head teachers were sampled from 405 public, private and special education schools in Kenya. Sossion added that the curriculum was not “homegrown” but was instead backed by “foreign interests” including donor-funded NGOs who’s only intention was profit.