GREAT IDEA. Uganda Government Changes Teaching Curriculum In Schools.

FB_IMG_1570965694528 — Students doing exams

Government has scrapped termly examinations in the revised lower secondary curriculum which takes effect this first term opening next week.

Reports show that the ministry of Education, through the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), introduced projects which students will be doing at the end of every topic.

The teachers will required to record their achievements daily and support them where they have failed until some level of proficiency is attained before another topic is introduced.

James Aisle Droti, the NCDC specialist, told the newspaper that teachers can, however, administer end of year examinations for purposes of giving feedback to parents on how their children performed.

Droti termed it “identifiers” that have been grouped between one to three.

For instance, children who appear in identifier one, will mean they have acquired basic information and need support while those in groups two and three achieved to a greater extent.

As such, beginning of term, midterm and end of term tests are not necessary because a teacher will be doing classroom-based assessment.

“We expect a teacher to observe students during an activity and engage them in a conversation through questioning,” Doti told Monitor.

“We expect learners to come up with an exercise, project or assignment and a teacher will evaluate how a child has progressed.”

Changes

The name for the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) has also been changed to Uganda Certificate for Lower Secondary Education.

School instructional time is from 8am to 2.55pm but the school day will run up to 4.30pm each working day.

Each lesson is 40 minutes which will add up to 40 periods per week.

Alex Kakooza, the ministry’s permanent secretary, said they are training teachers who will begin with the pioneer Senior One students when they report on February 17.

In the new curriculum, subjects have been reduced from 43 to 21.

Schools will be expected to offer 11 compulsory subjects at Senior One and Two in addition to one elective.

At Senior Three and Four, students will take seven compulsory subjects plus two electives.

Comments

How to Host a Website for Free From Your PC or Laptop.

Why pay for a web hosting service when your old computer can do the same thing? Learn how to self-host your site. If you're planning to launch a website but don't want to pay recurring monthly or annual hosting fees, you can use any old laptop or desktop PC to host a website for free. It's a great way to utilize your old system instead of throwing it away. In this guide, we will install and set up services on our 10-year-old laptop to host a WordPress, Joomla, or custom HTML or PHP-based website with a free SSL certificate. MAKEUSEOF VIDEO OF THE DAY Things You Will Need to Host a Website Following are the pre-requisites to host a website for free from home with just your computer: An old laptop or PC running Ubuntu Server. A registered domain name for your website Ethernet cable to connect the laptop or PC to router for reliable and fast connection Step 1: Update and Upgrade the Packages After installing Ubuntu Server on your computer , execute the following c...

We Bring You Brief Series of Sanctions Against Uganda Government Officials.

📸: Gen Abel Kandiho. On 9-December-2021, USA slapped sanctions against the then CMI Commander Gen Abel Kandiho. 📸: Gen Kale Kayihura. On 9-December-2022, UK slapped sanctions against former Police Boss Gen Kale Kayihura. 📸: Commissioner General of Prisons, Johnson Byabashaija. Again on this 4-December-2023, the same USA has slapped sanctions against Uganda Prisons Commander Johnson Byabashaija over alleged torture and human rights abuses in Prisons across Uganda. We ask, has USA and UK made December as an LCM to slap sanctions against high ranking government officials in Uganda even when the sanctions just remain on paper without deeper investigations to ascertain logical conclusions or remedy to that effect ?. #iip_updates #Information_is_Power #we_inform_the_uninformed

UGANDA ELECTORAL COMMISSION TO ELIMINATE NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION CARDS (IDs) FOR 2021 GENERAL ELECTIONS.

The elimination of using National IDs (Ndagamuntu) for the 2021 elections should not have come as a surprise. One would be very NAIVE to think that Bobi Wine has not prepared for this in his Business Plan under the RISK section. It is public knowledge that our EC is not independent. It is also public knowledge that Military Dictator Yoweri Museveni will never lose an election. What stunned us this morning is when we noticed that on social media, people were mocking Bobi with his "get your Ndagamuntu". We are on record for saying to all Our readers that the National ID is like Apartheid in South Africa. Students of History would know how those IDs were being used to arrest people, deny them jobs, deny them basic services. Consequently, Bobi was not wrong and will never be wrong on the Ndagamuntu. Except the ones attacking him and mocking him forget that in Uganda, now, no National ID (Ndagamuntu), no service. If you have not been denied registering your child i...

Osuta Yusuf

Search This Blog