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The Graduate Programmes & Research Office offers courses for teacher enhancement, postgraduate degrees, and leadership programs for current and aspiring educational leaders. The programs focus on continuous learning, specialization, and skill development in line with the evolving educational landscape.
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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