As we continued executing our empowerment mission this week, we encountered a number of experiences worth sharing. Let us first reveal
the experience of meeting a principal in Meru County, who had no hope whatsoever of the country benefiting from the Competency Based Curriculum – CBC.
The good news is that after lengthy discussions and our YouTube channel demonstrations, we agreed on one thing. The CBC consept is a great idea. The only challenge is implementation. It could have been better had those leading the process consulted. architects of the idea,
Nevertheless, the principal acquired copies of our publications and is shortly set for our empowerment seminar for his Sub-County School. I believe there are many such principals, and I wonder whether they are lucky to find experts, who guide them appropriately.
Alongside, the empowerment mission led me to a school that I have mentioned a number of times in this forum. Nanyuki High School is one of a kind. No wonder, it has in the recent past been leading in numbers of form one applicants, to the school. Why has that been the case? This time, I had a chance of chatting with the principal himself.
Me: Bw. Principal! Congratulations for the good work you have been doing since 2018.
Principal: Really? Thank you and how did you know about it?
Me: I have been to your school twice and in your absence, I have been briefed by your assistants.
Principal: What did you learn from them?
Me: That we have similar ideas, even if we have never met.
Principal: What do you mean?
Me: In 2018, you initiated various technical subjects in Nanyuki High School. Since then, your school properly accommodates academically oriented students, as well as those good in the work of their hands.
Principal: I decided to do something close to what I did in Kakamega High school. There, I initiated a Talent Academy as a department of the school. Great Rugby and football players amongst others have since been produced by this school.
Me: Wow! Great efforts indeed. You seem to be correcting the challenge of discontinuing blue collar job empowerment pathway, long before settling of the CBC.
Principal: Yes indeed. Just today, 67 students are at Nanyuki Air Base for their practical lessons on aviation. TVET should have been implemented early in secondary schools, and not left to be pursued by those unable to join universities, thus perceived as failures.
Me: How did you develop these empowerment perspectives?
Principal: I am an Alumni of Kabete Technical School, thus having a rich background on technical education.
Me: Wow! Now, I understand. I can only encourage you to keep up the efforts (as I asked him to read page 19 of the 3rd edition of Career Dynamics in the 21st Century, which clearly demonstrates how the rain started beating this nation.)
Principal: ( after reading) Let me please have a few copies of your books, so that my team can determine the way forward.
Me: Right. We shall compare notes after the publications are read in your school.
Why share these experiences? I have in the past clearly indicated that the competency based curriculum could have been unnecessary, if the right expertise had been embraced. We are totally in agreement with the Nanyuki High School principal that what was absolutely necessary was to re-introduce technical education in schools.
Added to this could have been sports empowerment pathway, which was successfully tested in Kakamega High school, years ago. Had that been the overall transformation strategy of the education system, there could have been no hitches of implementation technicalities, as is the case with CBC.
More still, infrustructural development could have been totally unnecessary. These issues leading to these challenges are easily discussed with educationists, while on one on one interactions.
Alternatively, they are easily disseminated through interviews on our YouTube Channel.
All the same, the train left the station long ago. We only need to make the best of CBC, the challenges not withstanding, isn’t it?
FYI!
From Nanyuki High School, I interacted with a Deputy Principal of another Nanyuki School. She acquired her own personal copies of our publications. Upon learning that we had a session with the Principal of Nanyuki High School, the deputy principal wanted to know something. ” Has the Nanyuki High School principal acquired your publications?
Me: Yes indeed. Why that concern?
Deputy Principal: Nanyuki High School is a befitting case study on transformation of the education system. In fact, that is where we benchmark.
Me: Great:Keep it up.
The question is; where do other institutional Managers benchmark from?
More engagements from schools in varrying Counties are SIMILARY WELCOME!!
Rgds
Mwangi Wanjumbi (MKIM)
Personal Empowerment Coach
Seasoned Speaker/Trainer/Consultant on Strategy, Performance, Change Management and Leadership.
Competency Based Curriculum-CBC Architect
Author of 1. KICD approved Career Dynamics in the 21st Century, 2. Living Beyond Survival:No More Tiptoeing in Life
- The 21st Century Student:Are You Creating The Future Today? Also, Retired 5 Year Monthly Strategy Columnist (2013 – 2018) for The SME Today Magazine Phone 254772516210
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