Guidance and tools

These resource kits provide practical tools, strategies and guidance on addressing safety, resilience and social cohesion in educational planning and in curriculum design.

Planning

This is the first of a series of six planning booklets. It provides the context and background, the rationale as well as an overview of the phases of education sector planning.
How does our current education system protect students and teachers from the effects of disasters or conflict? Are our schools safe? What systems are in place to strengthen the resilience of the education system following a disaster?
While most education polices tend to be very broad and focus on issues related to access and quality, we still need to consider what specific policies can contribute towards an education system that promotes safety, resilience and soci

How can the policies for safety, resilience and social cohesion (discussed in booklet 3) be implemented? Which policies can be implemented through ongoing programmes?

This booklet focuses on costing and financing of initiatives focused on safety, resilience and social cohesion.

Why is monitoring important? How we do we ensure that the data collected is analyzed and used?

This Glossary of terms includes definitions used in the six above mentioned planning booklets - both terms related to education sector planning and management, as well as terms related to safety, resilience and social cohesion.

Curriculum

This introductory booklet is the first in a series of eight which show how to address safety, resilience, and social cohesion at every stage of the curriculum development and implementation process.

It is not easy to introduce new issues into the school curriculum. Many education initiatives intended to introduce new themes and materials last only a few years, for a wide variety of reasons. This does not have to be the case.

What values, knowledge, skills, and attitudes should we teach to prepare students for the world in which we live and for the changes to come?

Curriculum review is a necessary part of the curriculum enhancement process.

This booklet looks at how to include learning to live together (LTLT) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the curriculum, in textbooks, and in the school timetable.

Textbooks and other education materials are instrumental in guiding the development of competencies for student safety, resilience, social cohesion, learning to live together (LTLT), and disaster risk reduction (DRR), especially in conte

Teachers are the key to successful learning and have a special role in education for learning to live together (LTLT) and disaster risk reduction (DRR).

This booklet looks at issues of assessment, and monitoring and evaluation in relation to learning to live together (LTLT) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) in schools.

This Glossary of terms includes definitions used in the six above mentioned planning booklets - both terms related to education sector planning and management, as well as terms related to safety, resilience and social cohesion.

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