Geneva Global is part of Global Impact Ventures
In March 2024, upon invitation from Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education, Dr. Joshua Muskin, Geneva Global’s Senior Director, and the Geneva Global Ethiopia team conducted two training workshops to help prepare for the nationwide secondary school teacher training planned for this upcoming summer. In the first of the two national workshops, Dr. Muskin engaged with the National Teacher Training Task Force and a group of other ministry and university experts to articulate a clear set of training objectives and strategies for equipping and encouraging secondary teachers, directors, and supervisors nationwide to design and deliver lessons that truly reflect the aims and principles of Ethiopia’s new Competency-Based Curriculum (C-BC). Encouraged by the validation of the national taskforce, Dr. Muskin then accompanied a group of 30 module designers to ready them to prepare the content and training program for the planned three-week summer training.
Following these, Dr. Muskin and the team conducted another week-long session, hosted this time by the Oromia Regional Education Bureau. With the active participation of a hundred lecturers from the region’s thirteen colleges of teacher education, the aim was to help the colleges train its future teachers and current school leaders to implement the country’s new competency-based curriculum.
Across all three workshops, Dr. Muskin stressed the essential principle that achieving the successful implementation of the new C-BC will depend first and foremost on trainers’ and teachers’ learning how to design and deliver competency-based lessons. The workshops focused on providing the module developers and colleges of teacher education lecturers with a very practical understanding of (i) what both teachers and students do during competency-based lessons and (ii) how to train teachers to design and deliver such lessons.
Dr. Muskin and the Geneva Global Ethiopia team feel privileged and humbled by the trust that the Ministry of Education and the Oromia Regional Education Bureau placed in them to support their exciting efforts to implement the new Competency-Based Curriculum. Geneva Global remains fully committed to supporting these efforts and looks forward to future opportunities to do this both leading up to and following the summer training workshops.
