- Teacher: Major Peter D Powlett
This course addresses the activities associated with curriculum development and the preparation and effective delivery of instruction. Contemporary designs and models of curriculum planning as well as the analysis of relationships between the facets the models will be discussed. Practical guidelines for developing and delivering quality technical and vocational education curricula will be emphasized.
- Teacher: Karen Bryan
The purpose of this course is to provide practicing secondary school teachers with an introduction to the Sociology of Education. The course will focus on the Sociology of the school. It seeks to combine theory and practice.
- Teacher: Karen Bryan
- Teacher: Miriam Moore
This course is designed to introduce participants to the concept of design and to the elements and principles of design and to apply these to the process of product research and development. The course aims to stimulate creative thinking in participants and to provide them with the skills necessary for solving problems encountered. The course is also important in light of current emphasis in secondary schools and further afield on developing competency in the identification of problems, examining multiple design solutions to the problems, selecting and modelling solutions, and developing the solutions.
- Teacher: Carlos Knight
The philosophy, trends, issues and practice of curriculum development particularly in technical and applied education, will be the focus of this course. The course is also concerned with examining contemporary curricula designs and providing practical guidelines for developing quality technical and applied curricula.
- Teacher: Karen Bryan