Report on Building capacity in Chad 2020
Introduction
Chad National Curriculum Center communicated to ACA requesting for capacity building for their curriculum and book development experts. Based on ACA constitution, ACA has the responsibilities to assist member countries to strengthen their National Curriculum Centres through international best practices. It equally has the responsibility to promote production and exchange of curriculum materials among Curriculum Development Centres across the continent among other responsibilities. Based on her communication, Chad was asked to develop a concept paper to allow ACA to get to understand what exactly the problem was.
Problem
It was realized that the experts in charge of curricula and textbooks have a gap in developing and aligning text books and curricula besides having inadequate ICT skills. This was affirmed through a survey conducted in Chad by the directors of the department of curriculum, the department of training and the department of the book-in January 2020. The survey report further revealed that there is a need to reinforce the French, Arabic and English languages in order to narrow the gap. Based on the above information, Chad found it prudent to build capacity of her curriculum experts in development of curriculum, ICT skills and aligning textbooks and curriculum to bridge the gap.
African Curriculum Association (ACA) being the coordinator of CESA curriculum cluster with the responsibility to ensure that the quality of education improves in all African member countries was identified to carry out capacity building in Chad. It is believed that building the capacity of the curriculum experts will contribute to the improvement of the Chadian curriculum and subsequently the education in that country , thus leading to the development of the entire country.
Goal of the capacity building
The overall goal of the capacity building will be to equip the curriculum experts with the necessary skills/ competences and knowledge required to produce a best tailored and ameliorated curriculum, and school textbooks and , enhance ICT skills for quality education Specific objectives:
- To distinguish the basic skills, knowledge or technical competence incorporated in both curricular and textbooks at primary.
- To align the skills, and competences in the curricular to the textbooks.
- To enhance ICT skills among the experts
Expected Output
- The 30 curriculum development and textbook experts will acquire knowledge required to develop textbooks aligned to curriculum.
- ICT skills of the 30 curriculum experts will be enhanced to meet the demands of the 21st century skills
Expected outcomes:
Improved and aligned curriculum and textbook development to ensure quality enhancement in Chad. Enhanced ICT skills for the 21st century
Main activity and timeline:
The main activities will be capacity building in ICT skills, generic curriculum development and textbook alignment through a 3 day workshop. This was anticipated to take place in July 2020 but due to COVID-19 the activity may have to be rescheduled. The workshop will be attended by 30 participants and facilitated by 3 experts from ACA subscribed members.
Venue
The activity will take place in Chad the particular venue will be communicated
Budget
The expected cost of the activity is $ 13,000 and 10% (1300) overhead for ACA making a total of $ 14300. This amount includes air tickets and development of training materials.
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