Training education executives

UNESCO-IBE bases its action on a broad, systemic, and holistic view of the curriculum. Broad because the curriculum goes beyond the simple teaching program. Systemic in the sense that the curriculum cannot, be considered in isolation from the other factors of the system in which it is supposed to produce its effects on learning education policy, administrative structures, teacher training, etc.). Holistic in the sense that it contributes to the integral formation of the person through the diversification of learning experiences.

The renewed mandate assigns the Institute the function of developing curriculum norms and standard-setting instruments that can guide and support Member States in defining their public policies and strategies in the field of education as part of its contribution to quality and inclusive education and sustainable development for all.

UNESCO-IBE seeks to support the country's educational authorities in their desire to have more qualified people working in an appropriate structural framework based on a curriculum designed as:

• the translation and ownership of a society project and educational policy orientations into the school context;
• the definition of theoretical references (particularly in pedagogical approaches), learning ambitions and targets, and a general teaching architecture; references from which the teaching programs are then derived by subject areas and by levels;
• an understanding of the curriculum that is both systemic (i.e., seeing it as an essential part of a set of interrelated components) and holistic (i.e., embracing the different levels of education as an articulated and coherent whole to support learners and learning);
• a universal glo-local vision of education;
• the SDG4 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the targets derived from it, seen from interconnected and comprehensive perspectives; and
• the implementation of the Transforming Education Summit (TES) commitments and Calls to Action.

The training consists of eight modules, and the hybrid training modality starts with a week of in-person workshops followed by 12-14 weeks of online training alternating between group work, joint reflections, methodological presentations, and discussions and drawing on the experiences and expertise of each participant.

The programme started in November 2022 and counts one year after over 400 trainees in 18 countries.