NIE Corporate Seminar 2001

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Graduate Programmes Research Office (GPR)
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Key Roles

• Professional development courses
• Postgraduate programmes Masters, PhD
• Leadership programmes

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Professional Development Courses
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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

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Professional Development Continuum Model (PDCM)
Chart
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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

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Leadership Programmes

• Diploma in Departmental Management (DDM) for
  middle level managers
• Senior Teachers Programme (STP) for potential
  master teachers
• Advanced Senior Teachers Programme (ASTP) for
  master teachers
• Leaders in Education Programme (LEP) for
  potential principals
• Leader for Leaders Programme (LLP) for senior
  leaders
• Leaders in Education Programme International
  (LEPI) for principals in the region

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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

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Leadership Programmes

• Diploma in Departmental Management (DDM)
• 17-week course for Heads of Department
• Emphasis on innovation
• Elements of self-learning
• Support for Principal

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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
• One intake per year

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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

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Postgraduate Programmes

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Master by Research
• Master by coursework
• Master of Arts (Applied Linguistics)
• Master of Arts (Applied Psychology)  
• Master of Arts (Educational Management)
• Master of Arts (Instructional Design and
  Technology)
• Master of Arts (Social Studies)
• Master of Education
• Master of Science (Exercise and Sport Studies)
• Master of Science (Life Sciences)

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Thank You