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Professional Teachers Standards
The Diploma seeks to equip and improve teachers with new, competencies and skills to stay up to date with the required instructional strategies which will guide them to create a generation ready to contribute to their community with innovation. TEPD graduates are lifelong learners, researchers who teach using inquiry-based teaching and learning.
The main outcome of the diploma is to graduate teachers who believe in teaching as a profession and not a job, able to research, professionally develop themselves, and work as per a set of teacher standards.
The diploma was developed in collaboration with the university college of London (UCL). It is comprised of 24 credit hours and is accredited by the University of Jordan.
The diploma is comprised of two main streams:
- Generic
- Subject-specific
Which are introduced in three main modules:
- Principles of Learning and Teaching
- Practices of Pedagogical Knowledge
- School Practicum- Practical Experience
While in Module One there are four main courses:
- Learning Environment and Relationships
- Curriculum and Planning
- Conditions of Learning
- ICT in Education
As for Module Two, there are three courses:
- Pedagogical Content Knowledge
- Assessing Students’ Progress
- Inquiry
Module Three:
The Teacher Professional Educational Diploma (TEPD) is characterized by the provision of practical school experience, which serves as a channel through which the learner can transform their theoretical principles into teaching skills that includes planning skills, implementation of teaching, classroom interaction, classroom management, and evaluation by engaging in two school practicum that meet the teachers’ standards accredited in the (TEPD). The school's critical friend (mentor) facilitates the application of activities, observes lessons, and provides feedback to student teachers’ performance in school.
- Possess a good understanding of key aspects of learning and teaching in schools from Early Grades 1 to 3 and Later Grades 4 to 12, including pedagogic and subject content knowledge.
- Have developed a good understanding of pedagogical content knowledge as it applies to students in schools in their specialist subject.
- Demonstrate an ability to analyze and critically reflect on professional practices, particularly their own teaching and learning practices
- Evidence a critical understanding of learning and teaching, enabling them to devise and sustain cogent arguments and reflect on the professional challenges faced by teachers.
- Have developed a conceptual understanding of their own professional teaching practice and that of others in relation to current research in teaching, learning, pedagogy, and practice education including an ability to articulate this clearly through relevant artefacts.
- Have demonstrated the ability to manage their own learning and reflect on their professional practice in light of scholarly reading and discussion to improve educational outcomes for their learners.
- Consistently demonstrate professional competences set out in the QRTA Teachers’ Standards.
- Demonstrate the ability to be creative, independent and successful in the application of knowledge in teaching and related activities with both learners and colleagues