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Professional Teaching Certificate (PTC) Edu-Systems International, ESI, Egypt Middle East Association of National Schools, MEANS, USA American International Accreditation Association, AIAA, USA ESI, AIAA and MEANS offer educational program for teachers in Egypt leading to Professional Teaching Certificate (PTC). The program consists of 5 courses/ 15 credit points for teachers enrolled in the program. Each course consists of 15 instructional hours and confers 3 credit points for participants. Participants will earn PTC issued by MEANS and approved by AIAA and ESI.
PTC 102
Effective Teaching Strategies
3 Credits
PTC 101
Instruction and Assessment
3 Credits
PTC 201
Classroom Discipline and Management
3 Credits
PTC 301
Technology in Classroom
3 Credits
PTC 401
Quality Education and Accreditation
3 Credits
Benefits of PTC Program: • Enhance and enrich knowledge and skills of teachers. • Allow better position and opportunities for further professional improvement. • Fine social and academic prestige within educational institutions. • Develop deeper understanding in your field of education. • Confidence and self-satisfaction.
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Differentiated Instruction Course Description
This course is designed to provide educators with the basis for creating a personal theory of instruction through knowledge of brain functions, and learning styles. In this course, participants will be subjected to interesting specific teaching techniques that would maximize the efficiency of the learning environment.
Objectives • Understand the concept and principles of differentiated instruction. • Develop different instructional strategies to each type of learning style. •Construct differentiated lesson plan that address different types and abilities of learners.
Number of Days: 1 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
Assessment and Evaluation Course Description
In this course, participants will be presented with a variety of assessment strategies that would fit the differentiated learning in regular classrooms . Educators will delve into the full array of assessment and evaluation tools, including rubrics, journals, formal and informal assessments, and portfolios. Then, create an effective rubric based on an existing student assignment.
Objectives • Understand the difference between evaluation and assessment. • Understand the various types and purposes of specific assessments and evaluation • Be exposed to a variety of examples of effective classroom assessments from different grade levels and subject areas. • Explore practical methods of grading and reporting.
Number of Days: 1 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
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Classroom Discipline and Management Course Description
This course is designed to allow participants to discover best practices of effective classroom management, how to establish a productive classroom climate, how to apply a variety of management techniques to help students become responsible for their behaviors and choices.
Objectives • Maintain classroom discipline and create an open, supportive environment of mutual respect, rapport, and fairness. • Establish, communicate, model, and maintain standards of responsible student behavior. • Using instructional time effectively to maximize student achievement. • Strategies for effectively communicating with parents. • Effective learning activities that prevent classroom management difficulties and cultivate social and group responsibilities.
Number of Days: 2 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
Quality Education Course Description
This course is designed to explain mechanism for addressing different standards and dealing with indicators. Participants will experience process of accreditation at national and international level. Moreover, steps involved in preparation of schools for accreditation will be explained and discusses in details.
Objectives • Outline nature and principles of quality assurance on national and international level • Explore roles and responsibilities of steering committee and subcommittee • Define elements and components of self study • Design mechanism for addressing indicators in each standard • Demonstrate an understanding on how to construct school improvement plan.
Number of Days: 2 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
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Interactive White Board Course Description
This course is designed to allow participants to learn how to use an interactive whiteboard in order to enhance their teaching and instructional practices. In addition, the course orients the teachers with basic soft ware usage of the interactive board and provide teachers with the opportunity for practice and demonstrations of use.
Objectives • Identify components of an interactive whiteboard system. • Understand how to use specific skills including basic operations, manipulating graphics and objects, overlay tools, and integrating peripheral products. • Identify how skills covered in this course can enhance and transform many lessons.
Number of Days: 1 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
Learning and Teaching Strategies
Course Description This course is designed to provide effective teaching strategies on various subjects for different grade levels. In this course, participants will explore the notion of which strategies provide the best prospect of preparing students for the 21st century, based on the latest findings from about how students learn. Objectives • Strategies for accessing prior knowledge and preexisting understandings. • Effective homework practices. • Methods for organizing knowledge into frameworks that will contribute to transfer. • Metacognitive approaches to help students take control of their own learning. Number of Days: 2 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
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One-to-One Learning Course Description
This course is for teachers interested in incorporating technology into the learning process. Participants will learn how to use a classmate PC in order to enhance their teaching and instructional practices. In addition, the course orients the teachers with basic soft ware usage of the classmate pc and provide teachers with the opportunity for practice and demonstration of use.
Objectives • Identify components of a classmate PC. • Discuss current research in instructional technology as it applies t o your classroom. • Practice using application in classmate PC. • Apply skills learned in this course to develop your own lesson. • Discuss challenges and successes in using classmate PC systems in your classroom.
Number of Days: 1 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
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Quality Education and Innovation Certificate (QEIC) Edu-Systems International, ESI, Egypt Middle East Association of National Schools, MEANS, USA American International Accreditation Association, AIAA, USA ESI, AIAA and MEANS offer educational program for educators leading to Quality Education and Innovation Certificate (QEIC). The program consists of 5 courses / 15 credit points for educators enrolled in the program. Each course consists of 15 instructional hours and confers 3 credit points for participants. Participants will earn QEIC issued by MEANS and approved by AIAA and ESI.
QEIC 103
Curriculum Design and Development
3 Credits
QEIC 107
Project Based Learning
3 Credits
QEIC 106
Student/Teacher Portfolio
3 Credits
QEIC 104
Active Learning
3 Credits
QEIC 105
Child Development and Psychology
3 Credits
Benefits of QEIC Program: • Promote efficiency in performance. • Fine social and academic prestige within educational institutions. • Develop deeper understanding in your field of education. • Confidence and self-satisfaction.
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Curriculum Design and Development Course Description
This course provides the basis for all instructional planning in the schools or other learning settings. Four essential questions regarding curriculum frame the course: What is it? Where does it come from? How is it developed? What makes it work? The course approaches curriculum design and development as a learning-centered decision-making process. In addition, this course examines the theoretical background, and practice-based information and skills necessary to design and critique appropriate and effective curriculum in any setting at any level.
Objectives • Explain the key elements of curriculum theory. • Describe and illustrate key components of effective curriculum at each level. • Explain and illustrate appropriate connections among learning outcomes, assessments and instructional strategies. • Use standards and other curriculum frameworks to design units and lessons. • Apply a learning centered decision-making model to curriculum design at all levels.
Number of Days: 2 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
Active Learning
Course Description This course enables teachers to convert their classes from regular traditional style to student centered active learning environment. Teachers are exposed to the importance of this approach and practice on implementing different activities to motivate students and make learning fun.
Objectives • What is active learning? • Why it is important? • Why are teachers reluctant to use it. • Advantages of Active Learning. • Techniques of Active Learning. Number of Days: 2 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors 8
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Child Development and Psychology Course Description
Child Development is a specialized course that prepares educators to understand the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth and development of children. The course is designed to help teachers acquire knowledge and skills essential to the care and guidance of children. Emphasis is on helping participants create an environment for children that will promote optimum development.
Objectives • Describes the physical development of a child from birth through the toddler stage. • Summarizes the emotional and social development of a child from birth through the toddler stage. • Describe various theories of child development. • Analyze the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of the child. • Identify environmental and hereditary influences that affect development and growth. • Summarize activities and strategies for optimizing the development of the school-age child.
Number of Days: 2 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
Student Portofolio Course Description
This course provides participants with a framework for developing a student portfolio. Teachers learn about the value of creating a student portfolio and how it is used to communicate and demonstrate students academic accomplishments. Educators are introduced to tools and techniques that help them to develop, manage, and maintain students portfolios.
Objectives • Discuss types and content of portfolios. • Design principles for creating portfolios. • Describe the portfolio evaluation course and explain briefly evaluation processes involved in the course. • Understand the uses of portfolios as part of the assessment policies. • Discuss the importance of feedback gained from portfolios. QEIC
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Number of Days: 1 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
Project Based Learning Course Description
In this course participants will learn how to use the StandardsFocused Project Based Learning Model and align it with subject learning outcome to develop instructional units. During the course, teachers will work through a set of modules designed to teach the five major planning elements of PBL. As a culminating activity, participants will develop a PBL unit for use in their own teaching or training.
Objectives • Be able to develop clear learning outcomes and objectives. • Be able to identify characteristics and attributes of Project Based Learning (PBL). • Be able to align goals and objectives of PBL with subject learning outcome. • Be able to develop formative and summative assessments for monitoring and evaluating PBL units and student outcomes. • Be able to design collaborative learning activities that support student learning in the PBL process.
Number of Days: 2 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
Teacher Portofolio Course Description
In this course, participants will develop a teaching portfolio that includes their teaching philosophy. The portfolio will act as a dynamic record of teaching experiences in which the participants should keep teaching log, evaluations from preceptors and students, examples of materials provided during their teaching experiences, and self-assessments of each teaching experience. Teachers will be assessed at the end of the course using a standardized evaluation form on developing their own portfolio.
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Objectives • Identify the components of teachers portfolio • Understand the importance of teachers portfolio as a tool for self evaluation and reflection • Construct your own teaching philosophy. • Learn about methods of preparing and presenting portfolio. • Develop and package your portfolio
Number of Days: 1 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
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Leadership and School Management Certificate (LSMC) Edu-Systems International, ESI, Egypt Middle East Association of National Schools, MEANS, USA American International Accreditation Association, AIAA, USA ESI, AIAA and MEANS offer educational program for teachers in Egypt leading to Leadership and School Management Certificate (LSMC). The program consists of 5 courses/ 15 credit points for teachers enrolled in the program. Each course consists of 15 instructional hours and confers 3 credit points for participants. Participants will earn LSMC issued by MEANS and approved by AIAA and ESI.
LSMC 202
Strategic Planning
3 Credits
LSMC 203
School Management
3 Credits
LSMC 204
Time Management and Communication Skills
3 Credits
LSMC 205
School Leadership
3 Credits
LSMC 206
Essential in Team Work
3 Credits
Benefits of LSMC Program: • Enhance management skills. • Effective school management. • Develop deeper understanding in your field of education. • Confidence and self-satisfaction.
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Essential in Team Work Course Description
In this course, Participants will be subjected to the essential elements of team work and communication skills that employees and managers must have as part of their standard tool set. Teachers will explore the principles of effective teamwork. Through interactive workshops, self-assessments, role-playing activities and video simulations, educators will gain practical experience initiating and responding to various forms of communication, learn to handle situations based on a flexible, genuine and self-confident approach. Teachers will also gain the skills to collaborate with others and form the needed teamwork environment.
Objectives • Identify the relationship between specific teamwork skills and team success. • Distinguish verbal and non-verbal behaviors that contribute toward teamwork. • Recognize barriers to effective communications. • Build collaborative relationships that emphasize trust and respect. • Develop active listening skills to anticipate and avoid common misunderstandings. • Develop team goals based on the business vision. • Participate in a team-building activity.
Number of Days: 2 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
School Management Course Description
This course explores the strategies and tools for building a learning organization. Principles of management practice and specific concepts about organizations, including change management, behavior, motivation, group dynamics, teamwork, leadership and ethics will be discussed. Moreover, This course assists aspiring educators to acquire the school management skills, knowledge and attitudes that will help them to contribute to the creation and support of conditions in schools under which effective teaching and learning can take place.
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Objectives • Explore educational leadership theory and style. • Construct shared school vision building and communication. • Understand methods of effective educational planning. • Acquire problem solving and decision making skills. • Understand importance of schools policies and procedures. • Explore time management and delegating skills.
Number of Days: 2 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
Time Management and Communication Skills Course Description
In this Course, Participants explore methods of working effectively with others to create an environment, which fosters open and honest communication. Moreover, participants will examine the ground roles for giving feedback and the ground roles for receiving feedback. In addition, This course is intended to prepare educators to help participants how to effectively manages time and plan for activities within a set time frame.
Objectives • Define the meaning of communication. • Recognize barriers to effective communication. • Demonstrate elements of successful time management skills. • Understand ground roles for giving and receiving effective feedback. • Practice in dealing with the more difficult aspects of delivering ‘negative’ feedback in a safe environment. • Determine methods and tools used for studying current situation against standard situation.
Number of Days: 2 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
Strategic Planning Course Description
This course focuses on the use elements of strategic planning. Identifying weaknesses and strengths of organizational institutions to construct goals, objectives with specified time frame and responsibilities. Candidates review the types of assessments that a school leader needs to be familiar with, and how a school leader can use assessment data to measure school wide achievement. Additionally, the model and processes of continuous school improvement are explored. 14
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Objectives • Understand the elements of effective strategic planning. • Aware of different strategic planning models. • Identify the steps and processes involved in developing and implementing a school improvement plan. • Create a school improvement plan that includes the school community in inquiry, implementation, and reflection. • Develop institutional monitoring plan assure quality of implementation.
Number of Days: 2 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
Quality Leadership Course Description
In this course participants will become aware of your current leadership style and abilities. The more leadership styles you have, the more situations you can handle. Participants will also appreciate the impact their leadership style has on those who work with them. The Leadership course is designed to help all educators develop the essential skills to influence and motivate your staff to achieve exceptional performance.
Objectives • Define what leadership is and how it is applied at all levels of organizational management. • Develop skills in communicating, influencing and negotiating with peers, subordinates and senior managers. • Become adept at assessing leadership traits and qualities in ourselves and others. • Learn how to develop leadership in ourselves and others.
Number of Days: 2 Target Participants: Teachers and Directors
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