The third roadmap provides insights for policymakers evaluating COSMOS’s potential for curriculum integration. It outlines the model’s flexibility, adaptability, and capacity to enrich curricula with real-world applications. By emphasizing the CORPOS framework, ecological school openness, and teacher professional development, this roadmap enables policymakers to assess the COSMOS approach’s sustainability, ensuring that its adoption aligns with broader educational and community goals.
Start with "The Purpose of the Roadmap" and "What COSMOS Approach Offers". This provides a summary of COSMOS’s objectives, highlighting how it aligns science education with real-world socio-scientific issues, community engagement, and open schooling practices, which are essential for a modern, comprehensive curriculum.
The “Core Organizational Structure for Promoting Open Schooling (CORPOS)” section discusses institutional support structures required for sustained open schooling initiatives. This framework demonstrates how school leadership and stakeholders can establish a collaborative model within the curriculum for continued community-oriented science education.
Review the sections on “Socio-Scientific Inquiry-Based Learning Approach (SSIBL)” and ”Communities of Practice (CoP)”. These provide insight into the pedagogical underpinnings of COSMOS, particularly relevant for curriculum planning that emphasizes inquiry-based learning linked to real-world issues, enhancing the curriculum’s relevance and impact.
The “Teacher Professional Development (TPD)” section addresses how COSMOS prepares teachers to facilitate inquiry-based learning within communities of practice. This section highlights the support structures and resources available for teachers, making the integration of COSMOS in the curriculum more feasible and sustainable.
Promoting the sustainability of the COSMOS approach in schools involves fostering an environment where open schooling and Socio-Scientific Inquiry-Based Learning (SSIBL) are embedded into school culture, curriculum, and community partnerships. This section provides insights and actionable steps for policymakers to ensure the COSMOS approach remains effective and impactful.