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Graduate Programmes & Research Office (GPR). Key Roles. Professional development courses Postgraduate programmes; Masters, PhD Leadership programmes. Key Roles. Leadership programmes Superintendents Potential Principals Heads of Department Senior Teachers Master Teachers
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Graduate Programmes & Research Office (GPR)
Key Roles • Professional development courses • Postgraduate programmes; Masters, PhD • Leadership programmes
Key Roles • Leadership programmes • Superintendents • Potential Principals • Heads of Department • Senior Teachers • Master Teachers • Special Education Principals
Professional Development Courses • A total framework developed for Lifelong Learning for teachers • Helps teachers to upgrade in knowledge, skills and qualifications • Attain further formal certification through a building block approach
Professional Development Continuum Model – Specific features • Addresses the needs of teachers in enabling them to keep abreast with knowledge and skills • Enables teachers to accumulate academic credits based on a modular approach and at their own pace • Enables teachers to obtain formal certification in the process
Postgraduate Programmes (Master and PhD) • By research and by coursework • Enable teachers to specialise in different disciplines • Encourage teachers to be involved in research • Build up a pool of Master and PhD graduates in the teaching profession
Leadership Programmes • Leader for Leader Programme (LLP) • Changing educational landscape • A shift from the competency-based model • to focus on knowledge creation • 3 weeks executive programme to challenge thinking of superintendents • Principles of leadership a key emphasis • Overseas visit/External Perspective • Leadership framework as deliverable
Leadership Programmes • Leaders in Education Programme (LEP) • Changing educational landscape • A shift from the competency-based model • to focus on values and mindset change • 6-month executive programme to equip • potential School Principals • Innovation being a key emphasis • Industrial attachment • Overseas visit • Journal and future school project
Leadership Programmes • Diploma in Departmental Management (DDM) • 17-week course for Heads of Department • Emphasis on innovation • Elements of self-learning • Support for Principal
Leadership Programmes • Leaders in Education Programme International • 2-week course for principals in the region • Understand school leadership in the new • landscape – an environment of continual change • 15 – 26 August 2005