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03 — Volunteer

Contribute what you actually have.

Volunteering with IPEC is not general goodwill applied to a cause. It is specific expertise applied to a defined piece of work — curriculum, translation, research, outreach or committee contribution.

Offer your time

01 — Six ways to contribute

Where volunteers make the difference.

  • 01

    Curriculum development

    Write, review or test curriculum material for one of six domains, across Classes 1 to 12 and into higher education. Teachers who have actually taught the material are the most valuable contributors here.

    Teachers · faculty · subject experts · curriculum specialists

  • 02

    Translation

    Translate frameworks, curricula and teacher materials into scheduled Indian languages and, later, into international languages. Translation is not an afterthought in this work; it determines who the material can reach.

    Bilingual educators · translators · language specialists

  • 03

    Research

    Contribute to studies, evidence reviews, field research and case documentation, or bring a research question of your own.

    Researchers · doctoral students · faculty · practitioners

  • 04

    Institutional outreach

    Support schools, colleges and institutions in your region in establishing Excellence Cells and running their first improvement projects.

    Quality practitioners · retired educators · professionals

  • 05

    Committee work

    Serve on an Excellence Committee or one of its eighteen sub-committees, contributing subject expertise to standards and frameworks.

    Domain experts · institutional leaders · clinicians · librarians

  • 06

    Knowledge management

    Help build the Council's repositories, taxonomies, case archive and knowledge base — the infrastructure that makes everything else reusable.

    Librarians · information professionals · technologists

02 — What we ask

Follow through, or say early that you cannot.

The Council would rather have fewer volunteers who complete what they take on. An institution that has been promised support and does not receive it is worse off than one that was never approached.

Volunteer Code of Conduct
  • 01Describe IPEC's work accurately, and never claim results or endorsements the Council does not hold
  • 02Complete the training for your role before working with institutions
  • 03Treat every institution as a host, and follow its rules and safeguarding requirements
  • 04Keep confidential what you learn about an institution
  • 05Declare any personal or commercial interest that could affect your work
  • 06Report annually on your contribution

Safeguarding

IPEC programmes are delivered in schools and involve children. Everyone acting for the Council — employee, committee member, ambassador, volunteer or partner staff — is required to comply with its Child Safeguarding Policy. Compliance is a condition of participation, not a matter of preference.

Child Safeguarding Policy

03 — Offer your time

Tell us what you can do.

Be specific and be realistic. Someone who can reliably review two curriculum units a month is more useful than someone who offers everything.

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Related

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