Curriculum Harmonization in the OECS-AW-0511

Executive summary
Proposed 10-year agenda for embedding curriculum reforms
and harmonization in schools

This paper presents curriculum reform as a significant change in the culture
and practice of teaching. It suggests that the school curriculum is dynamic
and can only succeed if it fully involves the participation of teachers. The
paper thus proposes curriculum development as a strategy for teacher and
school improvement. The strategy is envisaged as growing from the work of
the Eastern Caribbean Education Reform Project and the OECS Education
Reform Unit. The aim of any large-scale plan for school and teacher
improvement, based on that strategy, should be that every teacher will be
both involved in and empowered by the changes that are underway. The
following agenda is proposed as a means by which the original vision of a
more harmonized curriculum in the territories of the OECS can be effected.