SECONDARY school teachers need more training and skills to fully implement the standard-based curriculum (SBC), the chairman of the national in-service training committee for teachers, Richard Lerori, says. He told The National that only two secondary schools in the city had introduced the curriculum along with some primary schools. “All other secondary schools in the city are yet to do so because teachers need training for knowledge and skills before they could implement the curriculum,” he said. Lerori said they faced issues with other curriculums like the outcome-based curriculum (OBE) which was complicated by the introduction of the tuition fee free policy that saw overcrowding in classrooms and not enough teachers.
He said they did not want to see similar issues with the re-introduced SBC. “We need to have this curriculum explained to us carefully. It’s like before you start elementary and then you upgrade to grades 1-6, and then you have grades 7-10 in high schools but now with the SBC, we will have 7-12 in secondary schools.” Lerori said they were preparing to implement the curriculum but they needed more information about it. “This new curriculum and reform – we are in the dark at the moment so we need more information to be prepared. We need proper awareness and training so it’s up to the education policy division to do that.” Lerori said this was one of the many topics discussed during their national in-service training that started on Monday at the Kilakila Secondary School in Port Moresby. The training ends today. “More than 500 teachers from 11 secondary schools, including the Port Moresby National High School, have attended and discussed issues facing teachers inside and outside their classrooms like subjects and students issues, national issues and policy issues. The National/PNGEDUNews
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