ICT-Based TVET Curriculum Framework Integrated with GCED

The framework defines a seven-step curriculum-development process that can be run against any ICT sector — coding, graphic design, web and app development, office applications — and produce a complete Competency Standard and Competency-Based Learning Material.

Its central principle is balance between two strands: TVET answers the “how” (hands-on technical skill and employability), and GCED answers the “why and for whom” (ethics, responsibility, inclusion and global-citizen values). The goal is a learner who is technically skilled and uses those skills ethically.

The seven steps are sector and occupational analysis, competency mapping, defining learning outcomes, GCED integration, writing the Competency Standard, developing the learning material, and assessment. A TVET–GCED integration matrix pairs each technical element with a citizenship value — creating and sharing information with digital responsibility, using others’ content with copyright ethics, online communication with cyber safety, design with inclusion and equity, building projects with the SDGs, and collecting data with privacy and human rights.

A spiral progression tiers the same skill across grades: Introduction and Exploration, Application and Skill, then Creation and Synthesis — matched to GCED depth of Awareness, Analysis and Action.