Context
Following the successful ELT Roadshow 2018 for teachers of English in universities in Santiago de Cuba, Holguín, Santa Clara and Havana, focusing on developing learners' reading and writing skills, TELT was subsequently invited by the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education to lead a policy workshop on curriculum renewal at the University of Havana.
Theory of Change
Building on work already undertaken by the Ministry of Higher Education, we proposed a theory of change adopting a systemic approach to curriculum reform, mapping the interdependent relationships between teacher training, continuing professional development, assessment (both formative and summative), and the evaluation and adaptation of teaching materials and learning resources.
This integrated approach was designed to ensure that the planned curriculum change would take into account the nexus of inter-relationships between all of these elements, while at the same time acknowledging particular contextual features of higher education in Cuba.