Teachers attend workshop on standards-based curriculum

SEVENTY-FOUR teachers from the 21 early childhood learning schools in East New Britain attended a two-day workshop on the standards-based curriculum (SBC) on mathematics and science last week at the Taulili Destiny School, Gazelle.
Destiny schools’ Patrick Bing Wartovo said the unpacking of the SBC was for all the Destiny schools in the province to know the new improved documents for mathematics and science for the primary schools.
Through a partnership with Gaulim Teachers College, three of its lecturers were engaged to run the workshop.
“As we know, most our Destiny schools are privately run institutions,” Wartovo said.
“We need our Destiny school teachers from our 21 early childhood learning schools in the province to be well versed with the standards-based curriculum.”
He said the SBC programme had been rolled out to Government primary schools last year.
Meanwhile, SBC programme facilitator and Gaulim Teachers College lecturer Janet Batta said they had come up with the initiative to assist destiny school teachers aligne with the national curriculum.
She said many Gaulim graduates taught at these schools so it made sense to take them through the new SBC programme.
Batta said the Japan International Cooperation Agency had assisted the roll-out of the SBC programme through its production of learning and resource material for grades three to six.