MoE; Guidelines For Junior Secondary Education

Guidelines For Junior Secondary Education Are Published By The Ministry Of Education

For the Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) Curriculum, the Ministry of Education has established guidelines.

Current primary school administrators will be able to apply the Competency-Based Curriculum thanks to the recently issued guidelines (CBC).

The guidelines will cover a wide range of topics, such as financial management and government funding allocation, leadership structure in JSS, shared use of infrastructure, the Basic Education Act, areas of learning in JSS, learner welfare in JSS (such as a new uniform), staffing in JSS, and teaching load.

The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development states that students in Grade 7 will attend 45 sessions per week, with each instruction lasting 40 minutes.

the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades of junior secondary school.

The junior secondary school offers the following disciplines, both required and elective.

COMPULSORY SUBJECTS

English
Kiswahili or Kenyan Sign Language for learners who are deaf
Integrated science
Mathematics
Pre-Technical and Pre-Career Education
Religious education – learners choose one of CRE, IRE, and HRE
Social studies
Business Studies
Agriculture
Life Skills Education; and
Sports and Physical Education

OPTIONAL SUBJECTS (Minimum 1, Minimum 2)

1. Visual Arts
2. Performing Arts
3. Home Science
4. Computer Science
5. Foreign Languages
6. German
7. French
8. Mandarin
9. Arabic
10. Indigenous Languages
11. Kenyan Sign Language

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