CTI KidsCampus Launched

The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) in partnership with other stakeholders designed, tested and launched a modern, relevant and beneficial curriculum dubbed CBC a.k.a Competency Based Curriculum which allows individuals develop specific competencies in a more accurate, timely manner.

CBC focuses on the importance of a learners ability to develop skills and acknowledge and apply those competency skills to solve daily life challenges and is delivered in three divisions namely:

1. Early Year Education
2. Middle School Education
3. Senior School Education

CBC Objectives

CBC envisions every learner to have achieved the following competencies by the end of the course

1. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
2. Imagination and creativity
3. Communication and Collaboration skills

CBC Challenges

CBC is a very well structured and advantageous learner focused system that is fully adaptive to the changing needs of learners. However, it faces several challenges some of which are:

Achieving Excellence

• 1. How do we ensure the rigor and quality of the curriculum-based program remain equitable across the board?
  2. How will the competency based approach break the path of mediocrity and move beyond the fate of other general education trends?

Large class size

1. 1. A higher number of students in a classroom tends to affect student-instructor interactions and can also prevent peer exchanges during discussions in the classroom. Since every student learns differently, the instructor’s pace in a high-density class may work for some students but not for others.
   2. This create a restriction from applying learner-centric interactive teaching methods

Infrastructure for learning
Since a competency-based curriculum involves a fundamental shift from passive to active learning, the infrastructure needed for this model is very different. To implement a competency-based curriculum, educational institutions require everything from modern classrooms, creative centers, smart boards, laboratories, and the latest technologies at all levels, as it can help students to actively participate in the learning process.When technology is used as a partner then it assists the learners and teachers to develop access to new ideas and tasks and it also assists them to find a new way of handling the previous known tasks and to explore further perspectives of knowledge (Goos,2010). Therefore, if teachers still do not have these skills then it is not easy for them to implement the curriculum during this technological advancement era.

Inadequate learning and teaching materials and inadequate quality textbooks – It is not easy to get particular books for a certain class and this has worked negatively on the implementation of the curriculum as it frustrates both parents and teachers who need these books for their children and learners respectively.

CTI KidsCampus positions itself as an ICT Laboratory in less privileged communities that face any of the above challenges in the implementation  of the CBC curriculum.

As a private entity, CTI KidsCampus strives to provide the infrastructure needed that can be shared within the community at a subsidized fee to the parents and learners. It also has specific programs and subjects that boost the adoption and understanding of STEM subjects. The programs studied by learners at KidsCampus promotes collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, imagination and creativity competencies which are also the objectives of the CBC Curriculum

CTI KidsCampus has skilled and trained teachers with experience in the various technology industries and therefore guarantees the quality of the programs.

CTI envisions to be the lead in driving the adoption and use of technology within less privileged communities providing relevant technological projects to learners to drive and spark interest in STEM subjects as a way of ensuring quality CBC programs are delivered to learners even in areas facing challenges of infrastructure and teachers with less or no skills in ICT.

Places Launched

The first pilot face of CTI KidsCampus was in a town called Ahero which is approximately 25 KM from  Kisumu City and the second phase to be in Kisumu City itself in a center called Nyamasaria