Graduate Programmes & Research Office
(GPR)
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
Key Roles
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 Courses
Professional Development Continuum Model (PDCM) Chart
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
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
Postgraduate Programmes(Master and PhD)
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
Leadership Programmes
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