1. RWANDA EDUCATION BOARD TEACHER DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT COMPETENCE BASED CURRICULUM ROLL-OUT PLAN February, 2016

2. Introduction The Ministry of education, through Rwanda Education Board, has embarked on reviewing its curriculum The aim was to align it with national aspirations and to ensure that knowledge, skills, values and attitudes acquired by Rwandans in schools meet the challenges of 21st century.

3. Introduction (cont’d) The competence-based curriculum (CBC) was launched in April 2015. Its implementation kicked off with opening of the school year 2016. The roll-out plan of the CBC implementation includes training for: Management Stream and Technical Stream. (see the chart below)

5. COMPLETED TRAININGS ON CBC S/N ActivityVenue and datesParticipants 1Workshop to develop orientation materials Huye from 5-9/ May 2015 34 REB Staff + DPs 2REB Orientation training on CBC Hilltop Hotel 27-28/ May 2015 120 REB Staff attended 3 Consultative workshop organized by Right To Play Musanze from 4 -7/ June 2015 32 participants including 30 staff from REB attended 4 Workshop for developing Teacher Training materials on Competence Based Curriculum Musanze from 8-17/ June 2015 178 participants: REB,(92) MINEDUC + DPs,

6. COMPLETED TRAININGS ON CBC (cont’d) S/N Activity Venue and datesParticipants 5 Training of National subject Trainers (NST) on the CBC and Financial Education Musanze from 24 to 31 July 2015 and from 22 nd to 24 th July 2015 respectively A total of 145 participants attended including 40 REB Staff, 92 teachers and different partners; 6 Training for District Master Subject Trainers on CBC Training conducted in 10 centers 3 - 13/Aug 2015 2,997 primary and secondary school teachers attended 7 District orientation workshop In all districts 7- 14/October 2015 H/Ts & Dep.H/Ts(3,492 primary, 3,026 secondary, 416 SEOs and 60 DEOs

7. COMPLETED TRAININGS ON CBC (cont’d) S/N ActivitiesTimeline 8 Training for Pre-primary Training of National Trainers for pre- primary (12) 20-24December & 27 - 30 December 2015 9 Training of DMAST (90) for pre-primary5 - 14 January 2016 10 Training of 2431 pre-primary teachers16 - 21 January 2016 11 Training of School Subject Leader Training Training of School Subject Trainers (SSLs)25-30 January 2016 12 Training for Inspectors on CBC and monitoring system 22 nd to 26 th February 2016

8. STEP FORWARD Now that 92 NSTs, 2997 DMASTS and 23,338 SSLs were trained on main changes in the CBC, they are all ready to implement it with ease. Upcoming activities include: Follow up activities across all districts to reinforce the work of School Subject Leaders; Plan phase II trainings that emphasize Competence Based Lessons while phase III in 2017 will focus on assessment ; Establish a roadmap for building the capacity of DMASTs and SSLs in cascading the CBC in form of SBI (from district to school level);

10. Thank You