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

2. IBE-UNESCO ibe.cop@unesco.org 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 It focuses on an holistic approach around the EFA goals and within a comprehensive vision of the curriculum

3. IBE-UNESCO ibe.cop@unesco.org 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

4. IBE-UNESCO ibe.cop@unesco.org 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

5. IBE-UNESCO ibe.cop@unesco.org 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

6. IBE-UNESCO ibe.cop@unesco.org 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/COPswww.ibe.unesco.org/COPs

7. 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

8. IBE-UNESCO ibe.cop@unesco.org CIS COP Accomplishments Actively supporting curriculum reforms and educational innovations through: Russian section of the IBE website Russian section of the IBE website E-forums discussions on issues of curriculum reform E-forums discussions on issues of curriculum reform major IBE and UNESCO publications and documents translated into Russian 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 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 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 CIS COP Representation at the UNESCO World ESD Conference, Bonn To become a member: Please contact ibe.cop@unesco.org To become a member: Please contact ibe.cop@unesco.org

9. IBE-UNESCO ibe.cop@unesco.org 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.