Curriculum Overview
The participants are selected because they come with passion and a deep desire to design their own career paths; careers that are meant to have a positive and role model effect on others as well as a mark of social responsibility. Kyusa is not focusing on vocational training or conventional entrepreneurship training but rather on empowering school dropouts to design their own career paths by tapping into their passions and turning them into sustainable careers.
In order to empower participants to design their careers in a more purposeful, creative and therefore significant way; we guide them through a process which will provoke their habits, thought and actions. By providing a new, unconventional approach to learning where they become their own teachers and yet students at the same time. This introduces them to new ways of approaching and solving problems.
Overall goal: To equip school dropouts with skills and learning tools that empower them to develop passion-driven, sustainable careers.
Possession of proper attitude is one of the most important attributes of a competent person. Without proper attitude, the performance of a person is adversely affected. Hence systematic effort is made to develop positive attitudes during the training program in addition to the eight core competences.
Skills Development:
The main focus of the curriculum is to shape attitudes and equip participants with practical skills on key soft skills that are a core component of the employment requirements in Uganda. This training is done over a period of eight weeks and focuses on simple but highly relevant topics that are often times not taught in formal schools. These skills are relevant for any young person seeking to launch into the labour market. The core areas of competence are summarized into three categories, that is Information, Communication and Technological skills (ICT), Employable skills and Entrepreneurship skills. There is emphasis on participants becoming job creators and less of job seekers.
Career Mentoring & Coaching:
Each participant is attached to a career mentor throughout the program. A mentor is an expert or someone with valuable experience in the career field that a participant aspires to launch into. Mentors guide, inspire, motivate and advice participants as they launch and pilot their ventures. Participants continue to receive mentoring support up to one year after the program.
Teaching methods:
The focus of the program is on developing competence (performing) and not on ‘knowing’ (head knowledge). Lecturing will is restricted to the minimum necessary and emphasis will is given for learning through active participation and involvement.
The training methods are individual centered to make each person a competent one. Opportunities for individual work are provided. The learning process is continuously monitored and feedback is provided on a regular basis. Demonstrations using different models, audio, visual aids and equipment are used intensively.
Follow Up:
Follow up focuses on continuing to empower the alumni as they go on to develop their careers and launch themselves into productive work. This is done through the alumni support group where they continue to get mentoring, link to valuable resources and information that could help them as they go along. They are also called upon from time to time to inspire, motivate, mentor the new participants and even to facilitate some of the training's.
In order to empower participants to design their careers in a more purposeful, creative and therefore significant way; we guide them through a process which will provoke their habits, thought and actions. By providing a new, unconventional approach to learning where they become their own teachers and yet students at the same time. This introduces them to new ways of approaching and solving problems.
Overall goal: To equip school dropouts with skills and learning tools that empower them to develop passion-driven, sustainable careers.
Possession of proper attitude is one of the most important attributes of a competent person. Without proper attitude, the performance of a person is adversely affected. Hence systematic effort is made to develop positive attitudes during the training program in addition to the eight core competences.
Skills Development:
The main focus of the curriculum is to shape attitudes and equip participants with practical skills on key soft skills that are a core component of the employment requirements in Uganda. This training is done over a period of eight weeks and focuses on simple but highly relevant topics that are often times not taught in formal schools. These skills are relevant for any young person seeking to launch into the labour market. The core areas of competence are summarized into three categories, that is Information, Communication and Technological skills (ICT), Employable skills and Entrepreneurship skills. There is emphasis on participants becoming job creators and less of job seekers.
Career Mentoring & Coaching:
Each participant is attached to a career mentor throughout the program. A mentor is an expert or someone with valuable experience in the career field that a participant aspires to launch into. Mentors guide, inspire, motivate and advice participants as they launch and pilot their ventures. Participants continue to receive mentoring support up to one year after the program.
Teaching methods:
The focus of the program is on developing competence (performing) and not on ‘knowing’ (head knowledge). Lecturing will is restricted to the minimum necessary and emphasis will is given for learning through active participation and involvement.
The training methods are individual centered to make each person a competent one. Opportunities for individual work are provided. The learning process is continuously monitored and feedback is provided on a regular basis. Demonstrations using different models, audio, visual aids and equipment are used intensively.
Follow Up:
Follow up focuses on continuing to empower the alumni as they go on to develop their careers and launch themselves into productive work. This is done through the alumni support group where they continue to get mentoring, link to valuable resources and information that could help them as they go along. They are also called upon from time to time to inspire, motivate, mentor the new participants and even to facilitate some of the training's.
