Curriculum Elaboration

“CMB” Training Center provides Curriculum Elaboration services for both formal and non-formal educational sectors. The service implies a multi-stage process, the main outcomes of which are: Curriculum document, Trainer’s Guide or Teacher’s Guide and Participant’s Manual or Student’s Manual/Textbook.

1. Preparatory Research–including consultation of available documents, materials, similar curriculum programs, and complemented by: market research, needs assessment, audits, literature and/ Internet searches.
2. Intelligence Gathering–identifying, soliciting and recruiting the ideal, interested and available program contributors. We ensure representation from each multidisciplinary target audience or region of the country in the case of a national program.
3. Real-Time Session–convening a half or two-thirds day multidisciplinary planning meeting. The objectives of the curriculum-elaboration meeting are to:
- Integrate the ideal objectives, scope, dimensions, content, faculty, participants and other practical logistical details into the elaboration process.
- Secure commitment from contributors, and assign roles to program participants for subsequent development phases and execution assignments.
- Provide a forum for airing and addressing operational issues and if necessary to develop proactive strategies to deal with any potentially
undermining tactical issues.
- Follow a process that adheres to accreditation standards.

5. Elaboration of the Draft 0 of the Curriculum Document, Trainer’s Guidebook and Manual/Textbook for participants. These are the version for piloting.

6. Piloting of the Draft 0 of the Curriculum document and Guidebook/Manual within a Training of Trainers Program.

7. Review of the Draft 0 based on the results of the piloting. Elaboration of Draft 1 of the Curriculum document, Guidebook and Manual for participants/students.

8: Piloting of the Draft 1 with final beneficiaries of the curriculum. Survey 1 to be applied in control and intervention groups.

9: Monitoring and supervision during the piloting phase.

10. Survey 2 to be filled in by participants at the end of the piloting phase (control and intervention groups);

11: Workshop with the trainers or teachers is conducted after piloting phase, in order to do the Capitalization of the experiences and to share things/aspects which should be improved as a result of piloting of the Curriculum.

12: Pre-Final version of the Curriculum, Trainer/Teacher’s Guidebook and Participant/Student’s Manual/Textbook are reviewed by external national experts and feedback is accumulated for the final version.

13: Final editing of the materials in the local language.

14: Submitting for approval to the Ministry of Education or relevant body in-country.

One of the most recent experience includes: “CMB” Training Center has elaborated the Curriculum for the optional course on “Decisions for a Healthy Life Style” for 35 hours aimed at vocational school students from Moldova. As part of this process the Teacher’s Guidebook and Students’ Notebook were also elaborated. This was done as part of CMB project on “HIV/AIDS Prevention in Eastern Europe, Moldova component”. More details on the project can be found here:http://cmb.md/en/cmb-projects/past-projects/hivaids-prevention-in-ee/

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