Course Description
The goal of this program is to highlight effective quality initiatives and to encourage practices that may help institutions to improve the quality of their teaching and thereby, the quality of their graduates. The program includes visits to some leading schools as well as the training of best practices and techniques in this field.
Course Objectives
- Getting new techniques in managing schools and educating students
- Comparing and learning about the latest methods of administration, education, management of schools and best way of dealing with students
- Comparing what is applied to what participants have in their own schools
Who Should Attend?
- Leaders of the institution
- Administrative staff
- Teachers
Course Details/Schedule
- Profiles of the institutions and quality teaching initiatives
- Overview of the institutions
- Typology of the group of institutions
- Involvement in quality teaching
- Typology of the quality teaching initiatives
- Institutional and quality assurance policy
- Type of institution and influence on quality teaching initiatives
- The origins of quality teaching
- The influence of national authorities
- State regulations or incentives
- Increasing awareness of the importance of quality teaching
- Increasing student demand for quality teaching
- The aims of institutions engaging in quality teaching
- Pedagogical purpose
- Quality teaching initiatives and their actors
- How do institutions support quality teaching?
- The emergence of an institutional policy
- Quality assurance as leverage for quality teaching
- Allowing individual teachers to be creative
- Making teaching explicit: a conceptual framework
- Debating the meaning of teaching
- The linkage between quality teaching and learning outcomes
- Innovative attempts to bridge support to teaching and to learning
- How can quality teaching be widely accepted?
- Promoting quality teaching to new faculty members
- Role of students
- Organisational structures supporting quality teaching
- Ensuring effectiveness through policy-maker support
- Monitoring and measuring quality teaching
- The need for evaluation
- Making quality and teaching meaningful
- The impacts of quality teaching
- Awareness of the teachers' role
- Information technology policies (IT)
- Learning facilities
- Which institutions are better able to disseminate quality teaching initiatives?
- Providing appropriate material
- Technical field visits
