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UNESCO-IBE Community of Practice in Curriculum Development

UNESCO-IBE Community of Practice in Curriculum Development. IBE-UNESCO. What is the Community of Practice (COP) in Curriculum Development?. The COP is an open, plural, multilingual, proactive and quite unique worldwide community of experts on curriculum development

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UNESCO-IBE Community of Practice in Curriculum Development

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  1. UNESCO-IBE Community of Practice in Curriculum Development IBE-UNESCO

  2. What is theCommunity of Practice (COP) in Curriculum Development? • The COP is an open, plural, multilingual, proactive and quite unique worldwide community of experts on curriculum development • It focuses on an holistic approach around the EFA goals and within a comprehensive vision of the curriculum IBE-UNESCO ibe.cop@unesco.org

  3. Why have a COP? The COP is a valuable instrument for building and sharing competencies and knowledge at global, inter-regional, regional and national levels. The COP stimulates the inter-regional sharing of knowledge as well as knowledge production through collective thinking and action on curriculum issues IBE-UNESCO ibe.cop@unesco.org

  4. Who is the COP? • The COP comprises of over 1200 participants from 126 countries. It covers all UNESCO regions. • It is shared among: • Policy makers • Educators • Curriculum Developers and Specialists • Scholars • Researchers • Supervisors • Principals • Teachers IBE-UNESCO ibe.cop@unesco.org

  5. What are the COP objectives? • The main objectives are: • To encourage the understanding and clarification of key educational and curriculum concepts • To provide access to current trends, comparative research and updated documentation on curriculum change • To identify valuable practices and useful learning resources at the school and classroom levels (i.e. curriculum approaches and tools) • To produce new knowledge and ideas IBE-UNESCO ibe.cop@unesco.org

  6. How does the COP work? • Knowledge sharing and production is done through face to face and on-line COP activities between the IBE COP coordination, 12 Regional Focal Points (cover all UNESCO regions) and the COP members, encompassing, among others: • International seminars and conferences on core curriculum issues • Capacity building workshops • Inter-regional exchanges and networking • Worldwide and regional e-forums • A weekly animation activity of documentation and information sharing • A weekly on-line alert • Downloads of IBE publications and documents • Access to learning resources at www.ibe.unesco.org/COPs IBE-UNESCO ibe.cop@unesco.org

  7. Community of Practice in Curriculum Development in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS COP) Educational experts from Armenia, Azerbaidjan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan Demand within the CIS region to exchange experiences for up-to-date data and information on trends in educational curriculum research and development for greater regional IBE-UNESCO ibe.cop@unesco.org 7

  8. CIS COP Accomplishments IBE-UNESCO ibe.cop@unesco.org Actively supporting curriculum reforms and educational innovations through: Russian section of the IBE website E-forums discussions on issues of curriculum reform major IBE and UNESCO publications and documents translated into Russian CIS countries’ national case-studies have been developed and contributed to the IBE Curriculum Resource Pack Dissemination workshop on the curriculum resource pack (2006) and three annual workshops of the CIS CoP (2005, 2006, 2007) have been organized from which the CIS COP workshops materials have been edited and published CIS COP Representation at the UNESCO World ESD Conference, Bonn To become a member: Please contact ibe.cop@unesco.org

  9. Future objectives • Analyze results of regional cooperation • Propose further cooperation and develop the activity plan «The Community of Practice (COP) in Curriculum Development in the CIS countries» on 2010-2011. IBE-UNESCO ibe.cop@unesco.org

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