Knowledge Management at IFESH works to share the useful education innovations produced by Volunteer Educators and partners, with other volunteers, staff, and partners across borders. Also, this site is a way to equip Volunteer Educators and partners with what and who they need to know to work smarter in achieving the objectives of the many projects they undertake in achieving the IFESH mission of assisting African education systems to sustainably strengthen their education systems.

In this section, you will find technical policy documents and Helpful website links.

Technical and Policy Documents

Includes Training, Teaching and Learning Materials produced by IFESH Volunteer Educators with partners; documents related to policies and procedures that IFESH has helped to produce; IFESH reports; and research.

IFESH Cocoa Manual

Helpful Web Links

Links to external sites on teaching, curriculum development, education management and policy, student and teacher assessment, and monitoring and evaluation.

Web sites for Curriculum Materials:  Accessed September 8, 2011, 9:38pm --- http:www.edutopia.org/blog/curriculum-sharing-sites-vanessa-vega

Curriculum Sharing Networks

1. Curriki.org is an online community for educators and students to create, share, rate, recommend, and publish free and open learning resources. Many activities are aligned to the Common Core Standards, currently adopted by more than 40 states.

2. Shmoop is a very imaginative online learning community that deftly wields witty prose and artsy aesthetic to destroy the forces of boredom. They offer free and open resources primarily in history, literature, and social sciences.

3. Adobe Education Exchange offers free K–12 resources, with a focus on developing skills in Adobe products for success in higher education and on the job. The site is currently holding an "educators choice" contest that rewards the best curriculum materials with prizes.

4. Digital Is is a sharing space. More than a repository of free and open lesson plans, it is a place where educators can engage in the type of conversations that help develop their practice, and reflect upon the role of technology in doing so.

Curriculum Sharing Broadcast Sites

1. Khan Academy provides thousands of videos with engaging, high-quality instruction in math, finance, and history. Recommended by American Association of School Librarians.

2. Common Core Curriculum Maps offers grade-specific thematic units, plans, and materials aligned with Common Core Curriculum skill. Currently, it is only offered for English Language Arts.

3. The Ohio Resource Center for Mathematics, Science, & Reading and the Ohio Social Studies Resource Center are great examples of curriculum sharing sites that align with state and national content standards.

4. PBS.org has standards-aligned, multimedia activity-kits for teachers.

5. Sitting in on college courses is a great way for advanced students to get a head start on college, as well as for secondary teachers to continue developing their expertise. A growing number of top universities now stream selected lectures online, including MIT, Yale, Berkeley, and many more.

If you like this, you might also like

• Radical Curriculum Sharing at the Open High School of Utah by Todd Finley

• Toss the Traditional Textbook: Revamping a Curriculum by Grace Rubenstein

• Open Source Textbooks by David Thornburg

IRA's http://www.readwritethink.org/ is another great site for K-12 Language Arts lesson plans aligned to NCTE standards which served as part of the basis for the Common Core and most state standards.

Posted on 9/8/2011 12:17pm

The Getty...www.getty.edu

One site I find really helpful, especially when trying to teach across the curriculum (by that I mean including other subjects in with the subject you actually teach) is the Getty website. They have lots of free curriculum and materials online for educators. They even have FREE teacher workshops. The curriculum is based on the art work they have in the museum in L.A., but it connects to architecture, history, performing arts, environmental issues. It is a great site. You should check it out.

http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/classroom_resources/index.html

The IFESH USAID Midterm Evaluation

Publication Date: 22 July 2011

http://dec.usaid.gov/index.cfm?p=search.getCitation&rec_no=167091

http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACS237.pdf

 IFESH Presentation

Presentation on “The Role of US-Based NGOs in Providing Support to African Governments in Strengthening Basic Education”  at the 2009 Ronald Brown African Affairs Series –Summit on Investing in Education in Africa- organized by Constituency for Africa.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNWDUhiMsGM&feature=related and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmIUXaSSQUc&NR=1 in our knowledge management and sharing

USAID Presentation

Dr. Sarah Moten’s presentation on USAID Policy Towards Improving Education Outcomes in Africa  at the Summit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD38z2Mbj2I&feature=BFa&list=PL6187E20CC5AE82A1&lf=results_main