Abstract:
The purpose of the study was treats the contributions of the school curriculum committee
in implementing and improving the curriculum and to examine major possible challenges
that the school curriculum committee face while exercising their duties in Government
Secondary schools of Metekel Zone. To accomplish this purpose, the study employed a
descriptive survey method, which is supplemented and enriched by qualitative data. The
study was carried out in eight randomly selected secondary schools of Metekel Zone. Then
99 teachers and 32 school curriculum committee were selected using simple random
sampling techniques. All 8 school principals and 7 woreda supervisors were also involved
in the study for interviewing. Questionnaire was the main instrument of data collection.
Interview was also utilized to substantiate the data gained through the questionnaire.
Frequency, percentage and chi-square were utilized to analyze the questionnaire. The
qualitative data obtained through interview were analyzed and the result was used to
enrich the quantitative findings. The results of the study revealed that the school
curriculum committee contributions in facilitating the condition of curriculum
implementation and improvement were ineffective. School curriculum committees were
involved in the hard task of facilitating condition without having preceding
encouragements. The cooperation of school curriculum committee with parents,
community and principals on discussing with teachers after classroom visit, initiating
teachers to conduct action research was ineffective and their plans were not participatory.
Furthermore, the study revealed that: lack of training and experience sharing session,
work load of committee members, lack of material and incentive support,
misunderstanding of committee about their roles, unavailability of resource, lack of ICT,
insufficient fund were those factors which hinders effective implementation of secondary
school curriculum, Finally recommendations were drawn based on the above findings. The
point of the recommendations include: awareness on the part of school curriculum
committee, principals, supervisors and teachers through seminars, workshops and
discussion about the different activities of curriculum implementation process in order to
bring skill development of teachers and improve the implementation of secondary
curriculum. Moreover, suggestions were forwarded to solve the factors that hinder
implementation of curriculum
