Evaluation on the Effectiveness of Teachers Training Programmes in Preparing Teachers Towards Implementing Competency Based Curriculum: The Case of Sumbawanga Municipality, Tanzania

Nombo, Upendo Willy (2019) Evaluation on the Effectiveness of Teachers Training Programmes in Preparing Teachers Towards Implementing Competency Based Curriculum: The Case of Sumbawanga Municipality, Tanzania. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of teachers training programmes provided to teachers towards competence based curriculum implementation in schools. The study used both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The data were collected using questionnaires, interviews and observation checklist so as to address specific objectives of the study which focused on: the tutors’ knowledge and skills on CBC, the teaching approaches used and the practices the teachers’ colleges use in preparing the student teachers towards competence based curriculum implementation. The major findings showed a significant existence of governmental, institutional, and individual initiatives towards competence based curriculum implementation. However, there are various challenges facing tutors in integrating knowledge and skills acquired from the training into competence based curriculum implementation. Therefore, from the findings, it was concluded that teachers are honestly not well prepared in colleges for effective CBC implementation in schools due to the aforesaid challenges. The study recommends that the CB training programmes provided to tutors need to be ongoing, of long duration, and they should involve all tutors. Furthermore, tutors are encouraged to improvise and use various competence based curriculum, teaching strategies in their instructions to student teachers so as to produce competent teachers. The study also recommends that future studies should be done on examining the reason for having few female tutors in the colleges compared to male tutors; as well as extending the current study to a wider sample of colleges and employ methodology that will make the findings generalizable. viii TABLE OF

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