Higer Education Leadership and Management Development

Active Learning Methods’

The CPD module which was prepared by UNESCO-CFIT has four major components which one of them is active learning method utilization for school teachers. ALMs are considered as instructional alternatives in order to ensure reliable, practice-based, applicable and useful type of students’ learning and its outcome. It is a process of giving most of the responsibilities of learning for students of course with systematic and optimal support by the teacher. In other words, the teacher, with his/her conscious decision, has to encourage students to search the process and final targets of any content learning.

Continuous Assessment

Assessment is one competence required of teachers at all levels. Moreover, a form of assessment called continuous assessment (CA) has been a feature of our school system for more than a decade. It has been a part of the educational policy and widely used in the education system in which students are examined continuously over most of the duration of their education, the results of which are then taken into account. However, it didn’t result in the expected improvement of student performance. A need assessment conducted recently showed that CA is one of the issues that many teachers and school leaders usually bother about in its implementation. Hence, this training program is designed to help teachers improve their knowledge and skills of CA.

Instructional Leadership

This course is designed to acquaint trainees with critical concepts about uses of instructional leadership knowledge and skills to enhance learning and teaching with an emphasis on how instructional leaders organize and support instruction. Moreover, it provides the overview of various leadership roles with whom key instructional leader actors in a school can assume when their professional goals focus on creating a vision and mission for academic success, creating and maintaining learning focus culture, centering on instructional improvement, support teachers growth  using ongoing feedback, professional development, coaching and professional learning communities,  marshaling and deploying resources which contribute to the students’ academic success,  mining data and using for informed instructional decisions, ensuring inclusive education  and involving in the improvements of curriculum development at local, regional state, or national levels.



Needs Assessment

This part of the module deals with two concepts: needs assessment and impact assessment. The first part, needs assessment, is focused on  the oncept of need and needs assessment, the benefits of needs assessment, identifying CPD needs, prioritizing CPD needs and methodologies of needs assessment. The second part , impact assessment, also focuses on  conceptual clarification CPD impact assessment, levels of  CPD impact assessment, methodologies for CPD impact assessment, major types of CPD impact assessment, conceptual framework for CPD impact assessment, principal models of CPD impact assessment and standards of good CPD impact assessment.