Introduction
Activity: Discuss the following entry question in pairs:
- What do you do in your teaching to make sure that all learners can learn to the best of their abilities?
Rwanda has achieved gender parity in net and gross enrolment at pre-primary, primary, and secondary levels (USAID, 2018). In fact, girls’ enrolment is higher than for boys at primary and secondary levels. However, dropout rates for both boys and girls, as well as disabled learners, remain a challenge. Boys younger than 13 are more likely to repeat and drop out than girls; and at age 14, the dropout rate for girls surpasses that of boys (MINEDUC, 2018).
In national examination results, boys outperformed girls in almost all districts at P6 and S3 levels during the period 2008-2014 (MINEDUC, 2018). This indicates that girls face more challenges inside and outside schools than boys. To eliminate all the obstacles which lead to disparity in education, the Ministry of Education included gender and inclusive education as crosscutting issues in the Competence Based Curriculum framework (Rwanda Education Board, 2015).