The Cambridge International Diploma for Teachers and Trainers provides a framework for continuing professional development for teachers with experience, helping them to develop skills and knowledge to enrich their practice. It is relevant to teaching and training in a variety of contexts.
The Ladies’ College Department of Vocational Studies is the only centre in Sri Lanka which conducts this prestigious Diploma course. It is certificated by University of Cambridge International Examinations and embodies globally accepted best practice. The Diploma enables teachers and trainers to demonstrate their ability to plan, manage and evaluate systematically; design and teach learning programmes using a range of methods; and develop personal skills that improve their professional practice.
The course is organized into four modules which reflect the key stages of the teaching/training and learning cycle: Design, Practice, Assessment and Evaluation.
Design – Planning and preparing learning programmes and sessions using appropriate content, methods and resources.
Practice – Facilitating active learning and learner involvement using a variety of tools such as providing information, demonstrating, supervising activities while paying attention to motivating, encouraging and guiding.
Assessment – Consider essential questions about why we assess, how we assess and to whom we report the outcomes of the assessment.
Evaluation – Evaluate learning and use it to plan improvement.
Each module is assessed by a professional practice assignment. These are submitted to University of Cambridge International Examinations using an electronic template they provide.
Teachers from National and International schools and Trainers from the corporate sector have followed this course.
One of the participants who was the first to obtain three distinctions for three of the four modules and thereby qualify for a Distinction pass stated that:
“I was searching for a teaching qualification when I was told about the Cambridge International Diploma for Teachers and Trainers at DVS. It seemed a chore for me at the beginning to sacrifice my Saturdays to sit and listen to a lecture. As time passed by I realized how important the things I learnt there were……. I think I am a much better Facilitator who understands both the general process of learning and the uniqueness of each individual learner. The Cambridge International Diploma for Teachers and Trainers taught me how to constantly learn about how best to help the learners learn in the most effective way for them” (Ms Anupama de Alwis).
Both teachers and trainers can follow this course. In 2009, a trainer from HSBC successfully completed the course and was selected as the best student for the year.
Ladies College Department of Vocational Studies has offered this Cambridge International Diploma since 2007. The next course is scheduled to commence on the 21st of January 2012. Lectures will be held from end January to mid December on three Saturdays a month. The course can be completed within a year. Teachers are currently registering for the course.
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