Training Tools

Developing modules, training tools, and resource materials in curriculum policy-making and development is an important component of the IBE's Curriculum Development strategy. Training tools help strengthen the competencies for the management of curriculum development for all major stakeholders.

 

  1. A resource pack for capacity building focusing on "Leading and Facilitating Change" amongst the Asia Pacific Network of Curriculum Developers.
  2. The training tools listed below were developed during the ABEGS-GASERC and IBE-UNESCO projects for the Gulf Countries. The projects explored several important education issues in the light of directions for improving teaching and learning in the ABEGS-member states.

METHODOLOGIES AND MANUALS


  • Manual for Content Analysis and Evaluation
  • Manual for Yearly and Weekly Time Allocation
  • Manual for Yearly and Weekly Subject Time Allocation
  • Comprehensive Framework for Curriculum Integration

ELECTRONIC TOOLS


A. ‘Classic Ratio-Weights ’ Tool


The Classic Tool enables curriculum specialists to explore various scenarios of school time allocation, the both so-called ‘traditional’ or ‘classic’ ones (number of instructional periods per subject and week), and the ‘non-traditional’ ones (such as integrated subjects, project work, and/or using block periods of instructional time).

 

How does it work?

 

Step 1 – The existing situation of time allocation in a specific country will represent the starting point.

Step 2 – The data can be changed and new scenarios can be created (depending upon what should/could change), that the Tool can memorize (thus creating a data base of explored scenarios).

Step 3 – Consequences of changes can be discussed amongst curriculum specialists that visualize the effects graphically.

 

B. Structural Design Tool

C. The Syllabus Decomposer Tool

Toolbox for curriculum specialists

In 2005 the IBE-UNESCO envisages to produce a Toolbox for capacity building focusing on ‘ The selection and organization of learning contents: time allocation and curriculum integration’.