SERDEC offers professional short courses for educators and institutions. Each course can be taken as a short course in a single topic, or as a complete course covering all areas — delivered practically, with teaching aids. Every course ends with a Certificate of Completion.
Educational Management & Leadership
One of SERDEC’s core courses, concerned with the operation of educational organizations — the planning, organizing and directing of activities in schools and universities, using human and material resources effectively to achieve educational goals.
Course goals
- Concept of educational management and leadership
- Decision making and managing crises in education
- Dealing with behaviour problems at schools and universities efficiently
- Using technology in educational management
Course content
- Educational management and leadership in education
- Decision-making process in education
- Differences between educational administration and management
- Human resources in education
- How to handle crisis management in education
- Educational policy and its process
- Applications of technology in education and administration
Curriculum Development & Assessment
Encompasses two areas — curriculum development and assessment. Trainees learn concepts, theories and approaches such as competency-based and outcomes-based education, the design of curriculum documents, measurement and evaluation, and the construction and analysis of achievement tests.
Course goals
- Concepts of curriculum development and assessment
- Competency-based and outcomes-based education, with application
- The design and development of curriculum documents
- Measurement, evaluation and achievement-test construction
- Test-result analysis linking outcomes, instruction and evaluation
Course content
- Curriculum terminology
- Theories and models of curriculum development
- Needs assessment
- Competency-based approaches — goals and objectives
- Outcomes-based approaches — course mapping
- Course outline / syllabus
- Setting up an achievement test and analysing results
Teaching Methodology
Provides trainees with techniques of teaching methodology — theories of learning, factors influencing the effectiveness of education, memory and retention, types of teaching methods, motivation, and classroom management.
Course goals
- Techniques of teaching methodology
- Behavioural and other theories of learning
- Characteristics of the effectiveness of education
- Memory loss and retention
- Types of teaching methods and effective instruction
- Motivation and motivational skills in teaching
- Classroom management and handling problems
- Characteristics of the effective teacher
Course content
- Concept of teaching methodology
- Types and models of teaching methodology
- Factors influencing teaching methods
- Applied classroom management
- Scheme of work and lesson planning
- The main documents the teacher works with
- Concept of motivation and its role in learning
- Characteristics of the effective teacher
Educational Psychology
Provides the concept and scope of educational psychology — child development, learning theories, the cognitive process and motivation, student behaviour, classroom management and discipline, and the types and functions of classroom assessment.
Course goals
- Concept of educational psychology and its scope
- Child development: physical, mental, emotional and social
- Theories of learning with application
- Analysis of the cognitive process and motivation
- Student behaviour, classroom management and discipline
- Types and functions of classroom assessments
- Developmental level and learning style of the student
Course content
- Aims of educational psychology and its scope
- Physical, mental, emotional and social development — problems and solutions
- Theories of learning with application
- Analysis of the cognitive process
- Motivation in the learning process
- Understanding and handling student behaviour
- Classroom management and discipline
- Types and functions of classroom assessments
- Developmental level and learning style of the student