Short lesson time, longer learning weeks and reduced class work are some of the options education stakeholders have proposed to recover a lost school year.
It has also been suggested to eliminate school-based exams that eat up two weeks of every term, and instead adopt formative assessment.
Primary and secondary school heads yesterday said term one and two topics can be consolidated to make it easier to cover the syllabus when schools open in January.
“We can reduce weekend and holiday breaks and adopt crash-learning programmes,” said Kenya Primary School Heads Association national chairman Nicholas Gathemia.
According to Mr Gathemia, school reporting time and time allocated to lessons can also be adjusted.
“If we start lessons at 8am, we may start an hour earlier. And if lessons end at 5pm, we may add an hour. This will create time to do more,” he told The Sunday Standard.
Presently, each lesson under the new curriculum is expected to last 30 minutes with a total of five lessons every day at pre-primary level and seven lessons for lower primary learners.
Pupils in Pre-Primary One and Two (PP1 &II) should be taught 25 lessons per week while lower primary classes (Grade I, II &III) have 35 lessons.
This is not fair because teachers will be overworked since tsc can’t pay overtime allowance.
The learner’s spurn of concentration shoul d be put in mind , not only the time being extended . let’s be a bit realistic.
The government should explore ways of removing some topics in the syllabus especially those that seem to be repeated. Some topics are unnecessarily long hence they can be shortened.
Don’t forget that these are kids not computers or machines of some sort.
Unless if the learners aren’t human beings but robots
Highly support
If this can add value to the kid then it’s welcome
I won’t mind the CS releasing exams in December 2020 set just within the topics the learners have handled so that candidates are not stressed. My opinion
This is overloading the learners
What is the hurry for?How do you expect grade 2 to be taught from 7am to 5pm.?
I agree with it but some un necessary topics should be kicked out and atudent sparn be considered by adding some short breaks otherwise iko sawa