Curriculum and AI tools for migrant education
A curriculum for Burmese migrant students in Thailand, built on an integrated framework that maps it to the Thai, Myanmar and international standards — with AI tools that help curriculum developers and teachers keep it aligned.
This is an active development project with the BEAM Educational Foundation. The aim is a curriculum that stands comparison with the Thai one, grade by grade, for learners who go on to Thai universities.
Access the curriculumStructured Curriculum
Level 1 is BEAM's own curriculum: 37 thematic modules, each with five days of lessons across six subject areas — Maths, Science, Phonics, Literacy, Civics and Life Skills. Levels 2 to 5 are being rebuilt on the Integrated Curriculum Framework, starting with Level 2 maths.
Integrated Curriculum Framework
One set of standards and learning outcomes, built from four frameworks: Thailand's school curriculum (BECC) and non-formal curriculum (NFE), the Myanmar primary curriculum, and the US Common Core. Learning that all four ask for is the essential core. The framework shows where they agree and where they differ, so BEAM can decide what each level teaches.
ATLAS — Curriculum Assistant
An AI assistant for BEAM's curriculum developers. It reads, writes and refines activities, links each one to the Thai curriculum standards, and works from documents they attach. Every change it makes is recorded and can be reviewed, approved or rolled back.
BEACON — Teacher Support AI
For teachers in resource-limited classrooms, who often have no one to ask. A teacher saves a lesson to their own library and adapts it with BEACON to their class — its size, languages and materials — without changing the shared curriculum.
The Approach
Standards first, then a plan, then the lessons
The framework. The Integrated Curriculum Framework starts from every standard in Thailand's school curriculum, then compares each learning outcome with the Thai non-formal curriculum, the Myanmar textbooks and the US Common Core — in both directions, so that each match is checked twice. The Myanmar primary textbooks are read page by page, and every outcome drawn from them cites the page it came from. AI proposes the matches; people review the doubtful ones.
The plan. Before any lessons are written, each level gets a teaching plan: which learning outcome every lesson teaches, in which week, in an order drawn from how the Myanmar textbooks and Common Core build the skill. Each level is pegged to the matching Thai grade, so the curriculum can be shown to be equivalent.
The lessons. Lessons are drafted from the plan, one at a time, and reviewed by BEAM before anything reaches a classroom. ATLAS helps curriculum developers refine them; BEACON helps each teacher adapt a lesson to their own class.
Project Status
What's built, what's next
Completed
- Level 1: 37 modules, 1,110 activities, from BEAM's own curriculum
- Thai curriculum browsers: BECC (2,165 indicators, checked against the Ministry's document) and NFE (891 outcomes)
- Common Core browser: maths and English, Kindergarten to Grade 12
- Myanmar primary textbooks: 31 of 64 read so far, about 2,400 learning outcomes with page references
- Integrated Curriculum Framework: 12 domains, with maths compared against all four frameworks
- Level 2 maths: a lesson-by-lesson teaching plan and 220 draft lessons for BEAM to review
- ATLAS curriculum assistant, with change review and rollback
- BEACON for teachers, in early use
- Interface in Thai, English and Burmese
- Nightly backups, with an off-site copy
In Development
- Comparing the other subjects against all four frameworks
- BEAM placing each learning outcome in its levels
- Rebuilding Levels 2 to 5 on the framework, subject by subject
- Reading the remaining Myanmar textbooks
- Lesson content in Thai and Burmese (lessons are in English today)
- Science standards (NGSS) as a further reference
Collaborate
This project is looking for partners
We are seeking educators, researchers, and organisations who share an interest in AI-supported instruction for migrant and under-resourced learning communities. If you work on curriculum design, non-formal education, or applied AI in education, we would like to hear from you.
Contact UsPlatform Features
What the platform includes
Curriculum
- •Level 1: BEAM's own curriculum — 37 thematic modules, five days each, across six subjects
- •Six subjects per day: Maths, Science, Phonics, Literacy, Civics, Life Skills
- •Module and activity pages with day-by-day breakdowns and step-by-step teacher instructions
- •Level 2 maths: a lesson-by-lesson teaching plan, with 220 draft lessons shown beside the current ones for review
- •Lesson content is in English today; Thai and Burmese versions are planned
Integrated Curriculum Framework
- •Standards and learning outcomes in 12 domains, from every standard of Thailand's school curriculum
- •Each learning outcome compared with NFE, the Myanmar curriculum and Common Core, in both directions
- •A count of how many frameworks ask for each outcome — all four marks the essential core — with filters by framework
- •Each outcome traced to its sources, down to the Myanmar textbook page
- •Flags where frameworks place the same learning several grades apart
- •Review of doubtful matches, one learning outcome per screen, and a page where BEAM places outcomes in its levels
Standards References
- •BECC: learning areas, strands, standards and 2,165 grade indicators, checked against the Ministry's English edition
- •NFE: 5 strands, courses, topics and 891 learning outcomes
- •Common Core: maths and English language arts, Kindergarten to Grade 12, as published
- •Myanmar primary textbooks: 64 held, 31 read so far, each outcome citing its page
Languages
- •Interface in Thai, English and Burmese
- •Each user chooses their language in Settings, and it follows them to any device
- •Designed for Burmese migrant students in Thai non-formal education
ATLAS — Curriculum Assistant
- •Conversational AI (Claude Sonnet 5) with streaming replies and saved conversations
- •20 tools: read, write and search activities; link and unlink BECC indicators and NFE standards and outcomes
- •Works from documents attached to the conversation: PDFs, text and images
- •Remembers classroom conditions (class size, languages, materials) and uses them in its answers
- •Reports to the team when asked to do something it cannot
Change Management
- •Every ATLAS edit is logged with the old value, the new value, its reasoning and its confidence
- •Review by status: Needs Review, Pending, Flagged, Approved, Rolled Back
- •Approve, flag or roll back individual changes
- •A full audit trail of who changed what and why
BEACON — Teacher Support AI
- •Bounded Educator AI for Classroom and Outcomes Navigation, in early use
- •Teachers save lessons to a personal library, organised by module and day
- •They adapt a lesson in conversation — simplify, extend, or fit it to their materials — and see the changes as they happen
- •Their copy is private: the shared curriculum is never changed
- •Saved versions can be restored
Export and Administration
- •Print and Word (DOCX) export of activities, and bulk downloads for admins
- •Admin area: users, organisations, usage and spending
- •Every AI call logged — tokens, tools, user and model
- •Nightly database and file backups, pulled to an off-site copy