Assessing The Implementation of Competency-Based Curriculum on Teaching and Learning for Life-Long Skills in Public Secondary Schools in Ilemela District Council, Tanzania

The purpose of this study was to assess the Implementation of Competency-Based Curriculum in teaching and learning for life-long skills in public secondary schools in Ilemela District council. The research objectives were to determine the challenges that teachers face when enhancing learning for life-long skills and to identify the strategies that can be employed in implementing Competency-Based curriculum in teaching and learning in our public secondary schools. The research was guided by the Vygotsky, Jean Piaget and John Dewey Constructivism theory of 1972. The study used Convergent Parallel design. The research approach used in the research study was Mixed method research approach. The data collection instruments employed by the study were; interviews, questionnaires and observation. The instruments were administered to five heads of school, one District Secondary Education Officer, Twenty-five teachers and one hundred and fifty students of form three and form four. The results of the study exposed that Competency-Based curriculum has not yet contributed a lot to the development of students’ competencies. Teachers were still using the teaching and learning strategies which based on content rather than competencies in such a way that most of the teachers use lecture methods. Relevant text books were not enough to be used in enhancing CBC. Number of students in a classroom was too huge compared to the standard class size. So, it was difficult for the teachers to meet the individual learning differences. The recommendations provided were;the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology should make sure that they provide in-service trainings, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology should make sure that there is enough allocation of financial resources, Tanzania Institute of Education (TIE) should increase the number of relevant teaching and learning materials for CBC and Heads of school should revisit their school time table so as to improve the situation as well as carrying further studies related to the present study.