Designing an improved and more relevant curriculum that focuses on competency-based learning objectives and promotes high cognitive skills requires further support and commitment from the Ministry of Public Education. Expected project outputs related to improvements in the curriculum were only partially achieved. Curriculum development was also assessed as less efficient in achieving outputs due to delays in fielding consultants and differences in perceptions of curriculum by national education developers and international consultants. While movement towards a competency-based curriculum and student-centered learning will take a longer time to develop, monitoring of classroom teaching practices and the extent to which textbooks continue to define the school curriculum will assist in identifying the next steps in the curriculum review. [Main text, paras. 39,42,45]
Second Textbook Development Project