Appraising HIV & AIDS Prevention Curricular Materials and Teaching-Learning Resources

Geneva, Switzerland - 9 to 11 June 2003 There is a need for criteria to guide the appraisal of HIV & AIDS teaching/learning resources used in schools for HIV & AIDS education. Every education has to answer the basic questions: what is understood as valuable knowledge and which contents should be selected. It then becomes necessary to establish some criteria on what is worth to teach, what is relevant, significant and pertinent over what is considered complementary and secondary. Programme developers, decision-makers, school principals and teachers need tools that:

• describe main features of existing materials/resources
• identify options of different kinds of available approaches tested elsewhere
• highlight good or promising practices

The objectives were:

• Discuss and improve the set of appraisal criteria prepared by the IBE to assess curricular materials and teaching-learning resources for HIV & AIDS prevention in schools
• Apply the proposed appraisal criterial to analyze concrete curriculum materials and teaching learning resources brought by the participants and identify good practices and lessons learned
• Formulate follow-up actions and recommendations for future collaboration among participants for identification and promotion of promising approaches and good practice

• Executive report (2003, PDF, 163 KB)

IBE also contributed to several seminars organized by the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on education in the framework of its initiative "Accelerating the education response to HIV & AIDS in the context of EFA: a Multi-Agency Model".