Developing Booklet 6 on Good Policy and Practice in HIV and AIDS Education: Pre-Service Teacher Education with UNESCO
(An extract adapted from Clare Hanbury's April Newsletter) I have just completed my part in putting together this booklet. 
The purpose of the series is to present ideas, key findings and programmatic examples on different HIV and AIDS themes and to pull together experiences from different regions. In many countries it is immensely challenging just to provide schools with teachers let alone teachers who have had good enough training to make them effective and efficient teachers in HIV prevention. This made it all the more inspiring to learn how people in resource-poor environments are finding ways to do just this through the production and use of good materials for teachers to use with students and through innovative teacher education programmes. The two most remarkable programmes I came across are both in Southern Africa. One group are producing a high quality teacher educators manual to use with students and which trains the teacher educators too. Another a group are using a combination of face to face workshops, materials, on-line learning and buddy and mentoring system to develop and support teacher educators in the Southern African countries where there is a very high HIV prevalence rate. There is also some great work going on in Papua New Guinea. I will keep you posted on the availability of what will be a free booklet. Here is a link to the rest in the series.
Because of my involvement in this project, I have come across many many documents. Among the best of these is the EDUCAIDS Overviews of Practical Resources. These provide technical staff, programme implementers and mangers in ministries of education and civil society organizations with an analysis of useful published resources on the five essential components of a comprehensive education sector response to HIV and AIDS. Those working on Life Skills work internationally will very often be doing so because of the critical nature to strengthen the eduction response to HIV and AIDS.
Each Overview contains:
* A resource summary list by component (approximately 20 resources per Overview)
* Two-page analysis of the included resources and suggested websites for further information
* Half-page synopsis of each resource, its purpose and content, and how to access
I hope you find this incredibly rich resource as useful as I have!
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