Academy for Educational Development

The ERfKE Support Project began in July 2004 as a USAID-funded project to support Jordanian governmental education reforms, as part of the Educational Quality Improvement Program 2 (EQUIP2). It is an integrated set of support and capacity-building activities that support two major components of the Jordanian government’s ERfKE initiative: Improve and Expand Early Childhood Education (ECE) and Youth, Technology and Careers (YTC).   











The ECE component seeks to improve the physical appearance and readiness of ECE facilities, modernize and update the ECE curriculum, strengthen the skills of ECE professionals, and promote high quality ECE.  The YTC component seeks to enhance the curriculum for the new Management and Information Stream (MIS) in grades 11 and 12 to better prepare youth for the workforce,integrate the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) into teaching and learning in the MIS program, develop e-Learning curriculum elements to support teaching and learning, strengthen teacher training capacity for the MIS program, and help train MIS teachers and develop a pilot school-to-work (STW) transition program in grades nine through 12.