Govt Introduces Community of Practice (CoP) Model for JSS

Govt Introduces Community of Practice (CoP) Model for JSS

Govt Introduces Community of Practice (CoP) Model for JSS

The Community of Practice (CoP) model was incorporated into the junior secondary school curriculum by the government.

The government led the reforms through the Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education in Africa (CEMASTEA) in an effort to enhance student-teacher collaboration.

The CoP model, according to CEMASTEA, aims to give teachers and students from different schools a way to work together to accomplish goals.

The announcement was made in Kisumu during a training for County Trainers for JS teachers from 15 counties in the Nyanza, Western, and North Rift regions by George Kiruja, the coordinator of the program.

Kiruja also emphasized that the project will offer a forum for exchanging ideas, suggestions, and tactics.

“Helping teachers function as a community is the goal,” In addition to giving teachers a forum to exchange ideas, resources, and tactics for successfully delivering the CBC, the model fosters peer learning, the sharing of best practices, and cooperative problem solving, according to Kiruja.

Further information reveals that CEMASTEA wants to create Communities of Practise (CoPs) at every junior school in the nation to enhance learning outcomes.

In the future, this will expand upon the creation of subject-specific and regional clusters to help teachers implement cutting-edge methods for particular subjects.

In order to enable teachers to receive specialized training, CEMASTEA also mentioned that they have created a portal where teachers can share their difficulties.

Educators were additionally motivated to cooperate via in-person meetings and virtual social media platforms.

One of the criticisms leveled at CBC is that certain subjects in the curriculum lack teachers who are qualified to teach them.

One such subject is Physical Health Education (P.H.E.), which was formerly five different subjects but was merged into one: Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Sports, and Physical Health Education.

Religious organizations have also expressed concerns about the content of CBC books, claiming that some of them promote the agenda for same-sex relationships.

The leaders have criticized this, claiming that it serves as a means of introducing the story to impressionable minds.