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The End of the Professional Development Week for Academics
To enhance and develop the skills of the academ- accreditation, quality control, teaching, evaluation,
ics, in a way that ensures the proper communication academic advising, E-learning and the University’s
of courses’ materials to students and promote the strategic plan 2020/2025. It is worth noting that
success of educational process and methods of de- A’Sharqiyah University always seek to increase the
livering courses, the University concluded the Pro- efficiency of all its Academic and Administrative
fessional Development Week for Academics, which members, through providing several training and
started on 13th of September. The program began development programs, which contribute to raising
with welcoming the newly joined faculty members, the level of graduates of various specializations, in
then addressing the topics included in the program, order to ensure the quality of learning and scientific
such as, teaching and learning strategy, academic research at the University.
Characteristics, advantages and strategies of teaching methods
Social Sciences, presented a lecture for the aca-
demic staff titled ”Effective Teaching in Higher Edu-
cation Institutions“. The lecture included many top-
ics, such as how to prepare for lectures, how to deal
with higher education students and which strategies
to follow to ensure an effective class interaction
through attracting attention, motivation and produc-
tivity. The lecture also shed light on some of the ex-
Within the events of professional development week cellent teaching techniques in the higher education
for academics that took place on the thirteenth of sector, such as project and problem solving-based
September this year, Dr. Essam Al Lawati, Head of teachings by identifying the characteristics, advan-
Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and
tages and strategies used in such techniques.
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