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This report discusses curriculum development, teacher training, and partnership strategies in Sudan's education system. Key topics include linking North-South regions, language policy, stakeholder engagement, and cross-agency collaboration. Recommendations focus on capacity building, curriculum framework development, and stakeholder dialogue to improve educational outcomes.
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REPORT GROUP 2 – CURRICULUM, TEXTBOOKS, TEACHER TRAINING D. Georgescu, Khartoum
Participants • MoE (Secondary education; Girls education) • Teachers • Curriculum developers • UNICEF • UNESCO • USAID • Save the children • SIL D. Georgescu, Khartoum
1. Background and context • Situation to date in the North and South What is common and what is different What changed What needs to be changed Need to base decision making on sound research • Many players • Different systems of training (confusing) D. Georgescu, Khartoum
Issues • Links between North and South • Language policy • Curriculum: values and principles • Displaced people: setting equivalences (common outcomes?) • Institutional development • Challenges (financial; capacities; expertise) D. Georgescu, Khartoum
2. JAM & UN Work Plan • SWAP (e.g. resource allocation for teacher salaries & teacher training) • Strategic planning led by the government • Sustainable structures • System monitoring (e.g. UNICEF/UNESCO: gender issues in the curriculum) D. Georgescu, Khartoum
3. Partners and stakeholders • UNICEF: pre-school and primary (Teacher training; curriculum; back to school; non-formal literacy; fast-track learning; child-friendly school model; HIV/AIDS; Peace education; Life skills; Policy dialogue; Standards & competencies;) • USAID: Teacher education; non-formal ed.; curriculum; Distance education/Radio; System building/EMIS; Institutional development D. Georgescu, Khartoum
3. Partners and stakeholders • SIL: Mother tongue education in primary schools • Save the children • Many others… D. Georgescu, Khartoum
4. UNESCO: expertise and areas of competence • To fill/bridge the gap… • ECE; primary (with UNICEF); secondary education • UNESCO Cairo: Teacher training (training of trainers) • Division of labour (Go to the South…) • Convergence and coordination • General curriculum framework D. Georgescu, Khartoum
UNESCO • Build on strengths (planning; curriculum development; teacher training; HRE; technical assistance; secondary education) • Consultancy D. Georgescu, Khartoum
5. Inter-agency cooperation and networking • Continuity • Sustainability • Time schedule • Clear division of tasks • How: e.g. SWAP – sharing resources, tools, consultants; joint projects/action; exchanges; assisting the government on long-term) D. Georgescu, Khartoum
6. Conclusions and recommendations • 1. Visioning exercises (vision helps you plan) • 2. Taking stock: where we are… (curriculum assessment; TT; assessing processes and products) • 3. SWAP: things that we can do together D. Georgescu, Khartoum
Conclusions and recommendations • 4. Technical assistance: capacity building (MoE; Curriculum & textbook development; TT; Institutional development) • 5. Developing a Curriculum Framework (common quality standards; unity and diversity) • 6. Improve dialogue with stakeholders D. Georgescu, Khartoum
7. Follow-up to the workshop and new steps • Consolidated work plan for short-, medium- and long-term • Capacity building • Institutional development D. Georgescu, Khartoum