Standards based curriculum will fail us

WHEN the outcome based education (OBE) system was introduced, two officers from Waigani came to conduct the training for Enga teachers at Samuel Tei Abal Secondary School in 2006.
The teachers and other participants quickly glanced through the OBE syllabus and teachers’ guides and predicted that OBE would fail the nation.
After some years, our predictions were right.
We have wrongly educated and moulded some generations of Papua New Guineans using a wrong model of education.
I am currently teaching at my same old Anditale High School.
I glanced through the standards based education syllabus and teachers’ guides. I didn’t see any difference in standards based curriculum syllabus.
Everything is the same as OBE.
Only the tittles and colours of the cover pages changed.
This time, there is a more serious problem.
The problem is that the current teachers are educated and trained under OBE.
I am warning Papua New Guinea.
This standards based curriculum syllabus will fail and it will be the worst.
Any baking tray with a dent will always produce a bread with the impression of the dent.

Petroza Poko,
Chalk dust for 27 years