Edupedia’s Training Portfolio
- The Professional Teacher Program (endorsed by Leicester University –UK)
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 that will 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. It explores the constructivism/social constructivism as an answer to questions about the future of learning.
In this module;
- You willdiscover: 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 your
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;
- You willDesign: 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.
- You willAct: 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;
- You willIdentify assessment meaning and purpose.
- Employformative and summative assessment tasks.
- Understandwhat 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.
- You willbuild a supportive and learning environment for learning.
- Use the reflective cycle to support learners’ self-regulation.
- Apply techniques to maintainstudents’ life skills and attitudes.
Module Duration:18 Hours (face to face)
Self-study: around 4 Hours (reading, portfolio activity development, etc.)
- The Professional Leader Program (endorsed by Leicester University –UK)
Introduced in English & Arabic languages
This Program focuses on the key features of educational leadership in today’s schools. It addresses the need for change, and how leadership can impact students’ learning. The Program is based on research, designed to equip leaders with the basics skills and knowledge to be professional qualified leaders. The three modules offer an enriching experience transforming perception around leading learning, and allowing leaders to reach their full potential.
Module 1: Becoming a Leader
This module explores what is a good school and who are good leaders? It sets the standards and give tools to reach those standards.
- You willdiscover how to promote a desired school culture.
- Realize the role of an instructional leader in different leadership positions.
- Employ techniques of setting policies and designing processes and procedures for different school systems.
- Understand the meaning of leaders professional behavior and how it affect the school culture.
Module Duration:12 Hours (face to face)
Self-study: around 2 Hours (reading, portfolio activity development, etc.)
Module 2: Leading Learning
This module focuses on the role of leaders in leading learning. It provides innovative ideas to establish system that ensures development of professional learning for teachers that is based on results in students’ achievement of level required.
- Developyour skills in leading learning.
- You willSupport teaching excellence by using techniques of instructional coaching.
- Build Professional Learning Communities that guarantee students’ learning
- Build Instructional Leadership Teams to ensure unity in vision.
Module Duration:12 Hours (face to face)
Self-study: around 2 Hours (reading, portfolio activity development, etc.)
Module 3: Maintaining success
This module explores monitoring techniques that generate data for decision making and maintaining success.
- You willDesign school systems that work.
- Use thinking toolsto solve problems and take effective decisions.
- Discover how to promote Collaborative decisions with your team.
- Identify developmental goals and design action plans based on them.
Module Duration:12 Hours (face to face)
Self-study: around 4 Hours (reading, portfolio activity development, etc.)
- Teaching Concept-driven Curriculums
Introduced in English & Arabic languages
This course adds the enthusiasm and challenge needed to your classroom. It provides teachers with a chance to turn any curriculum into a life-long learning experience.
- Understand the underpinning theory of a concept driven curriculum.
- Identify the relationship between concepts, contexts and content of different subjects.
- Plan a concept based unit.
- Use different teaching strategies to teach facts, concepts and link them to context.
- Design performance assessment to assess a concept based unit.
Module Duration:18 Hours (face to face)
Self-study: around 4 Hours (reading, portfolio activity development, etc.)
- Focused Language Courses
Teaching the English Language reaching international standards can be made easy for teachers by adopting the right approach, using the appropriate strategies, and addressing critical areas of learning a language from young age to advanced learners. Edupedia is offering the following courses for English teachers:
1.Language & Literacy in the Early Years
This course is designed to equip English teachers for the early years (kindergarten and first grade primary) with the necessary skills to tackle the skills of the English language. Participants in this course will:
- Design effective learning experiences to acquire different language skills.
- Using the balanced approach in teaching reading that combines the holistic language approach and phonics.
- Employ teaching techniques to start writing fluently and accurately.
- Utilize modern techniques in teaching to address the different developmental areas of children; mental, physical, social and linguistic.
- Use different assessment strategies and assessment tools in the early years.
- Become reflective practitioners, able to self-evaluate, self-appraise and develop professionally as teachers.
Module Duration:18 Hours (face to face)
Self-study: around 4 Hours (reading, portfolio activity development, etc.)
2.Language Skills in the Elementary Stage
This course provides English teachers of the Elementary/Primary years with the essential knowledge and skills to support students’ acquisition of the English language and achieve the proficiency level desired.
Participants in this course will:
- Understand the basics components of an integrated English language curriculum tackling all language skills.
- Employ effective learning engagements helping students use the language fluently and accurately.
- Explore and exploit the different types of teaching reading and how they are integrated into day-to-day teaching.
- Apply a Model-Practice-Reflect instructional cycle to teach writing strategies for features of different genre types.
- Utilize feedback strategies dealing with students’ mistakes and scaffolding learning.
- Become reflective practitioners, able to self-evaluate, self-appraise and develop professionally as teachers.
Module Duration:18 Hours (face to face)
Self-study: around 4 Hours (reading, portfolio activity development, etc.)
3.Advanced Literature and Language Skills
This course is designed for teaching advanced level students in more challenging English programs.
Participants in this course will:
- Construct an English programs following the latest theories in curriculum designing.
- Employ effective learning engagements helping students use the language fluently and accurately.
- Utilize different strategies of teaching advanced writing skills.
- Develop students’ critical literary skills through different text handling techniques.
Design assessment tasks with matching criteria to accurately assess students’ language acquisition.
- Prepare students for high stake tests.
- Utilize feedback strategies dealing with students’ mistakes and scaffolding learning.
- Become reflective practitioners, able to self-evaluate, self-appraise and develop professionally as teachers.
Module Duration: 24 Hours (face to face)
Self-study: around 4 Hours (reading, portfolio activity development, etc.)