KLB TopScholar Agriculture Grade 8 Teacher's Guide is designed to assist the teacher deliver the Grade 8 Competency Based Curriculum. It provides the most suitable approach in the coverage of the strands and sub strands prescribed in the curriculum design through a wide and varied range of activities. This is to ensure that all the core values and links to other learning areas are brought out as spelt out in the curriculum design. The Guide has clearly highlighted the pertinent and contemporary
issues that are of relevance to Agriculture. The approach used is aimed at equipping the learner with 21% Century skills.

-The Guide explains clearly how the role of the teacher has changed from that of imparting knowledge to that of a facilitator of learning.

-The Teacher's Guide contains information on how the teacher should help the learner carry out all the activities in the Learner's Book and how to infuse the pertinent and contemporary issues in them.

-The teacher is encouraged to implement formative assessment in the course of learning so that assessment is not just meant to evaluate what the learners have learnt but also provides opportunity for further learning.

-Assessment rubrics are provided to help the teacher assess the learner's achievement of the learning outcomes on a continuous basis.