The procedure that schools will follow in admitting learners to Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) has been finalized, but the publishing date of the guidelines is yet to be announced.
This includes transition guidelines and the implementation of the Competency-based curriculum (CBC) in Junior Secondary Schools.
In 2023, January intake, unlike other intakes in the past years, there will be a double intake where the pioneer CBC candidates and the candidates currently in standard eight will both be admitted to secondary schools.
Education Cabinet Secretary prof George Magoha had earlier announced that CBC students would undertake their first class in primary school even after finalizing the national exam that will qualify them to join secondary schools.
The CS allayed fears raised by parents over the preparedness of private schools to host the first lot of Grade Six graduates as boarders in junior secondary schools.
Speaking during the seventh edition of the Catholic Schools Principals Conference in Nairobi on Monday, the Principal Secretary for Curriculum Implementation Fatuma Chege urged parents to enrol their kids in Junior Secondary Schools as day scholars.
Chege also called upon school heads to familiarize themselves with CBC design to determine the subjects that will be optional in their institutions. The primary goals of CBC are to broaden learners’ knowledge, experiences, and imaginative understandings and foster moral values for lifelong learning.
The CBC task force claims that pre-service Competency-Based Teacher Education (CBTE) will give the educational community a significant chance to train teachers in the CBC methodology.
The task force advised that the education ministry make sure that all instructors in pre-service teacher education training colleges are trained in the proper interpretation and application of the framework and designs of the teacher education curriculum.