PTP

The Professional Teacher Program (PTP)

*Introduced in English & Arabic languages

This program is designed to help teachers, and those aspiring to be to professional, qualified educators. The four modules offer an enriching experience transforming your perception to teaching and learning, and allowing you to reach your full potential as a teacher, as well as move forward in your career.

Module 1: Change – ‘Change in Contemporary Education’

•This module helps us to rethink approaches to Teaching & Learning and explores the constructivism/social constructivism as an answer to questions about the future of learning.
In this module:

• Discover new approaches to teaching and learning.
• Understand what is the learning brain? and, how it works?
• Learn the 7 basic Teaching Strategies that you can use in my classroom.
Module Duration: 12 Hours (face to face)
Self-study: Around 3 Hours (reading, portfolio activity development, etc.)

Module 2: Design…Act…Reflect – ‘Reflective Planning and Teaching’

•This module explores the social constructivism theory alongside inquiry-based learning. It puts theory into practice through a cycle of planning, teaching and reflecting on teaching.
In this module:

• Design meaningful learning experiences.
• Learn how to set and teach a student-centered classroom.
• Explore inquiry teaching methods, and how to integrate them.
• Understand the different stages in your session in your lesson plan.
• Recognize the needs for differentiated learning.
• Use tools to accommodate needed instruction to ensure all students’ success.
• Exploit differentiated instruction and remedial teaching needed to support students, based on their individual abilities.
• Act and apply what you learned in practical context.
• Practice how to implement your lesson plan.
• Match teaching strategies to every stage in your plan.
• Use methodologies specific to activate learning in real life contexts.
• Reflect on your teaching experience
• Learn through feedback sessions how to improve your teaching methods.
• Discover how to use reflective techniques to keep growing.
Module Duration: 30 Hours (face to face)
Self-study: Around 6 Hours (reading, portfolio activity development, etc.)

Module 3: Assess – ‘Assessment for Learning’

•This module, explores how assessment can be part of the learning process through different assessment tools and strategy.
In this module:

• Identify assessment meaning and purpose.
• Employ formative and assumptive assessment tasks.
• Understand what is an assessment cycle, and how can you use it to monitor students’ development.
Module Duration: 12 Hours (face to face)
Self-study: Around 3 Hours (reading, portfolio activity development, etc.)

Module 4: The Learning Environment – ‘Designing the environment for Contemporary Teaching’

•This module focuses on the wider role of the teacher in creating a supportive physical and emotional environments that supports learning.
In this module:

• Understand the requirements of the physical and emotional environments.
• Build a supportive learning environment for learning.
• Use the reflective cycle to support learners’ self-regulation.
• Apply techniques to maintain students’ life skills and attitudes.
Module Duration: 18 Hours (face to face)
Self-study: Around 4 Hours (reading, portfolio activity development, etc.)

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