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Here Is How School-based Projects Differ From CALAs

2 months agoSun, 19 Jan 2025 14:50:28 GMT
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Here Is How School-based Projects Differ From CALAs

Schools reopened on 14 January for the first term of 2025, with the Government introducing the new Heritage-Based Curriculum (HBC).

Authorities say the revised curriculum is designed to equip learners with the skills, values, and attitudes essential for life and work, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological integration.

In an interview with The Sunday Mail, Moses Mhike, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, explained that the HBC aims to address the specific educational needs of Zimbabweans by utilizing the country’s unique resources and cultural heritage.

When asked to clarify the new school-based projects, introduced under HBC, and how they differ from CALAs, Mhike responded:

School-based projects (SBP) are practical initiatives conducted at the school level, grounded in the local environment and circumstances.

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Unlike CALAs, which assess a broad range of subjects, these projects allow learners to focus on specific areas of interest, fostering creativity and minimising costs.

A major difference, too, is that one SBP is conducted throughout the year per learning area, while CALAs were conducted per school term.

The assessment of the SBP will follow both continuous assessment (CA) and summative assessment (SA).

Continuous assessment will include recorded activities from the SBP and other activities done by the learners for assessment, while summative assessment will include end of week, month, term, year or checkpoints assessments which was not done in CALAs.

For ECD (early childhood development), the model will mainly be continuous, with profiling and school-based projects, which is another shift from CALAs.

Mhike also revealed that the updated curriculum introduces several new learning areas that were not present in the previous cycle, responding to public feedback. He said:

In addition to core subjects like Mathematics and English, we now have Science and Technology (which include Science, Agriculture, Information and Communication Technology), Social Sciences (which include Social Studies; Heritage Studies; Family, Religious and Moral Education; Guidance and Counselling) and Physical Education and Arts (which include Physical Education, Mass Displays and Visual Performance and Arts).

This restructuring aims to create a more holistic and engaging learning environment for learners.

Technological developments have improved learner engagement in education by providing fun and enjoyable learning opportunities, such as simulations and blended learning.

ICTs have reshaped the learning landscape, utilising tools like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to transform virtual learning spaces.

This shift has fostered personalised learning, improved accessibility and encouraged collaboration. Technology has also provided accessible modes of instruction for learners with mobility challenges, assistive devices, corrective hearing devices and speech therapy.

Therefore, the curriculum framework should emphasise on investment in digital infrastructural development and retooling to leverage technological opportunities.

In order to strengthen a conducive learning environment, the curriculum will promote use of the internet of things (IoT), robotics, AI and block chain. Avoidance of explicit content and upsetting visuals are important aspects of digital safety.

Ensuring universal design elements are incorporated into every new school building to improve accessibility and everyone’s safety is also a priority.

There is also encouragement of the construction of safe infrastructure, such as playgrounds, water sanitation and hygiene facilities, furniture and sanitary restrooms, that are age- and disability-appropriate.

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29 Comments

bandits · 2 months ago
rrrdo
Sir African · 2 months ago
As long as the curriculum excludes contributions from parents and other stakeholders it won't work.They will abandon it for a new one withing two months.
Nziramasanga · 2 months ago
iWorking class yevana vemashef vachazonga vorunner mapurazi, migodhi namaindustry avakakumba aya, iri kungogadzirirwa apa. Teacher wacho onyimwa mari kt arege kushanda, mwana oitiswa marara ecurriculum kt asaite marketable anywhere ukanyambomuendesa kumaextra lesson nekumaprivate xul. Chasara kubanner cambridge exams muzvikoro umu.
🇿🇼45yrs · 2 months ago
Azvishandi izvi kupa mubereki burden kubhadhara kuti aoe mwana mark iri nane pamaprojects iwaya and why cnt we go back to ordinary curriculum. STEM yakaendepi? CALA maitadza ans then HBC its like forcing farmers to do PFUMVUDZA. POVO yati kwete azvishandi!
progress · 2 months ago
makauraya education kudhara muchiitira mascholaship evana venyu ma**** futi **** nonsense mofunga tifete here?
progress · 2 months ago
ndoda zvangu mcity but ngavagowesewo zvishoma pliz
trabablas · 2 months ago
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Patz · 2 months ago
Chonetsa ndechekuti hapana kana mwana 1 we these Heritage Based Curriculum preachers wanodzidza izvi. There kid either do Cambridge locally or are foreign based. These Heritage based things are designed for poor kidz so that they are not marketable abroad but will be servants of the kidz of the elite in future.
Chamisa · 2 months ago
Ivo varikuda kuti tizokwanisa kunyatsotengesa airtime nekushanda muma mines nekumunda kwavo
Patz · 2 months ago
Kuchinja chinja zvinhu hapana kwatinenge tichienda. Its like one step forward then 3 steps back. You will actually be facing ahead but going back. This is what made the Ministry of Finance and RBZ useless entities. Whats bad about the old education system which produced technocrats, scientists, doctors, specialits etc scattered around the world. They run away from Zimbabwe for obvious reasons
Oncemore · 2 months ago
The minister must agree with parents first before introducing new things to the learners, learners fail because of the sudden and unexpected changes by the ministry
justice McMillan · 2 months ago
This is just nonsense. The guys bringing all these programs never did them but have doctorates. these are thieves looting people's money who dispose for sale the tools of learning.....
Bvoricho Bvoricho · 2 months ago
zvema CALA zvacho zvinounzwa nevanhu vakaita 4 subjects at primary level, vana ve vanhu vacho havadzidzi muno, saka it's obvious kuti tiri kuitiswa. kadhiri kekumora mari chete aka
Black Mambazo · 2 months ago
vanonzwa neku itiswa
xxxx · 2 months ago
Uku ndokupererwa chaiko,isu tirikuti bvisai I'm motoedzera zvimwe futi mukuda kuti vana vapase here?
👀👀 · 2 months ago
pass rate ikutaura yega jt hazvis kuita yet varikuramba vachiwedzera zvimwe,better isu takaita jc ne 4 subjects,but chinondinakidza ndechekuiti ndikagariswa padesk nemwana arikuita zvima new curriculum ndomudonhedzera pasi,vana havachatomboziva formula te accounts nenyaya tema calas avo
Black-Scorpion · 2 months ago
nonsense at all... If you have bucks better usende mwana wako kuzvikoro zvinoOffer Campridge... unlike zimsec nonsense....
Nero · 2 months ago
howfar ma results EPL
**** · 2 months ago
kudzidziswa kubika 7days
Tendai · 2 months ago
brat**** imi vana venyu varikudzidza kunze kwenyika isu vedu ndivo vamoda kuti vaite madununu
👀👀 · 2 months ago
true ,they are colonizing us secretly,black to black,vavo vana havatombozive maCALAs kana zvaana fareme havazvizive
Freedom Fighter · 2 months ago
Useless,You are killing the life of our children,Long back there was no all that it was an ordinary learning and the pass rate was higher than these years.Remove all that,That's nonsense
Ediots · 2 months ago
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