Masaba urged trainees to always believe in continuous improvement, and to always embrace change whenever it comes to make them better, noting that change is the only permanent occurrence in human life.
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As the Ministry of Education and Sports rolls out the new competence-based curriculum for the upper secondary education section, teachers from fifty schools of Greater Mukono region have undertaken a five-day orientation training.
The teachers from the districts of Mukono, Buikwe, Kayunga and Buvuma have been trained by the experts in the new curriculum, an arrangement of the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) held at Faith High School at Ssonde cell in Goma Division, Mukono Municipality.
Michael Kato, an NCDC specialist revealed at the closure of the training on Friday that it has been organized to synchronize students’ learning with what they learnt at the ordinary level when the new system was introduced way back in 2020 yet at A level, it started this year.
He said that the same training was simultaneously conducted at 21 other centres in the central region.
The new curriculum intended to replace the old teacher-centered and information based system to child-centered and competence based system, ran between 13th and 16th May 2025, and was attended by teachers for all subjects and from both private and public schools.
Kato observed that it was found prudent for learners who had been taken through the new system at the lower level to continue with a similar arrangement at advanced level, and that additionally, their teachers needed to be empowered with a matching modus operandi to render what had been taught at the lower level relevant.
He advised head teachers to engage trained teachers to impart new skills to their colleagues who for one reason or the other did not attend the training, to enable learners to benefit from the skills that have shifted from simply stuffing to practicability.
Faith High School Director, Connie Magomu Masaba observed that the underlying objective of the training is getting new skills of preparing children to be better citizens able to find solutions to any challenges that may creep up later in life.
Masaba urged trainees to always believe in continuous improvement, and to always embrace change whenever it comes to make them better, noting that change is the only permanent occurrence in human life.
“Let us always keep it in our mind that we do not know it all, and so continue consulting with each other; let us develop a positive attitude of change as a tool for getting our learners to better performance with regard to changing demands of society,” she advised.
The head teacher of the host school, David Manyike was positively impressed by the general attitude of accommodativeness of the training, and expressed optimism that the government is bound to see results soon.
He said, “as teachers, you hold the tools for making the new change practicable; let us embrace the main issues of our agenda as spelt out by requirements of the new curriculum.”
In an interview, the co-ordinator of the training Namirembe Ritah, a teacher at Midland High School Buntaba in Kyampisi sub-county, Mukono district, observed that although the training should have been conducted earlier on before beginning of the academic year, participants have been enlightened on many otherwise misleading perceptions about the new curriculum.
Agnes Nalugooti Onganya, a teacher at Namasumbi Senior Secondary School pointed out that the training has bailed them out of the old system of stuffing learners with study materials to simplify cram work which she noted was the order, and added that learners’ common sense reasoning is going to be stimulated.
Fredrick Wamboga, a teacher at Kyabakadde High School said that just like their colleagues in the O level, they had not clearly bought the idea of the new curriculum but for the full week of training, they have managed to master the art of conducting the new teaching.
“We have been just fidgeting with the learners, and because they had gone through the system for the last four years, they have been experts in the new field unlike us,” he said.
Kato however said that due to the limited resources yet they wanted to handle as many schools as they could, they only managed to handle five teachers per each school and therefore asked the headteachers to endeavor to have the teachers who attended the training pass on the knowledge to the remaining teachers.