Mashav launches an international course on: ''New Pedagogies in the 21st century for Higher Education Teachers''.
The modern world is constantly changing and evolving. Things happen almost too quickly to assimilate, another rapidly supersedes one development, and channels of communication have become ultra-fast. Our educational systems are up in a world of sophisticated and constantly improving technologies, including the web, smart phones, e learning, and distance education. These circumstance demand that the educational system in its different levels must continually seek ways to keep up to date with current trends and methods in order to ensure that it meets student’s needs .
Universities have always been affected by international trends and to a certain degree operated within a broader international community of academic institutions, scholars, and research. Yet, 21st century realities have magnified the importance of the global context.
As higher education expands, we cannot always rely on human ingenuity to overcome its inadequacies. It is always possible to defend the inspirational lecturer, the importance of academic individuality, the value of pressuring students to work independently, but we cannot defend a mode of operation that actively undermines a professional approach to teaching. Lecturers need to know more than just their subject. They need to know the ways it can come to be understood, the ways it can be misunderstood, what counts as understanding: they need to know how individuals experience the subject.
However, lectures are neither required nor enabled to know these things. The ‘professionalization’ of teaching practice in higher education is becoming more important as universities try to respond to an increasingly diverse and discerning student population, issues relating to standards and quality, growing international competition, and generally ‘doing more with less.’
The course offered by the Ofri International Educational Training Center in this regard presents an integrated program focused in innovative pedagogic approaches in education with a holistic approach, new practical ideas, professional growth, hands-on experience, exposure to new materials, methodological tools and combined with reflection on the learning experience process.
The content of the course will cover different joint answers to the Pedagogical challenges described in this concept and with the objective of finding academic quality delivering learning experiences.
Aims
- Support the integration and the implementation of 21st century education skills.
- Facilitate progressive thinking, leading to educational breakthroughs.
- Prototype, develop, and implement new teaching paradigms, methods, and tools.
- Provide new tools and knowledge on the implementation and development of Innovation and technology.
- Promote and create a learning environment that leads the students to experiment Innovative methods and practices.
- Create tools for communication, collaboration and teamwork.
- Development of reflective practice and peer review of teaching.
- Explore what an interpretive and critical perspective might mean for curriculum construction and change efforts in educational institutions.
Main Subjects
- Teaching, supervising and learning in higher education
- Understanding student learning
- Encouraging student motivation
- Teaching quality, standards and enhancement
- Establishing teaching and learning credentials
- ESD in higher education institutes
- Teaching excellence as a vehicle for career progression
- Development of ways of thinking: critical, creative, strategic and tactical thinking
- Effective Pedagogy
- Presenting the importance of a supportive environment and a community of learning
- Networking with teachers and educators in order to enhance knowledge, broaden views
- and generate ideas
Methodology
- Lectures and discussions led by experts in various fields.
- Workshops.
- Analysis of educational planning through written material and professional visits.
- Meetings with institutional administrators and acquaintance with projects at the national and regional level.
- Simulations, panel discussions, and group work.
- Preparation of final projects by individuals or groups, based on the professional interests of participants.
- Study tours at: different types of schools at all levels, educational centers (science, art, etc.) and teacher training institutions and pedagogical resource centers
Social Activities and Tours
The seminar includes organized tours of holy sites and locations of general and historical interest.
Social and cultural activities will be arranged.
Application
Application Requirements
Higher education staff: Lecturers, Rectors, Curriculum designer, Professional education developers, Lecturers at teacher training institutions.
Application forms should be sent to the relevant Israeli Mission and to the Ofri Center by or before 11.10.2017
Application forms
Completed application forms, including the medical form, should be sent to the relevant Israeli mission in the respective country.
General Information
Arrival and Departure
Arrival date: 3.12.2017
Opening date: 4.12.2017
Closing date: 21.12.2017
Departure date: 22.12 2017
Participants must arrive at the training center on the arrival date, and leave on the departure date. Early arrivals/late departures if required, must be arranged by the participants themselves, directly with the hotel/center, and must be paid for by the participant him/herself.
Location and Accommodation
MASHAV awards a limited number of scholarships. The scholarship covers the cost of the training program including lectures and field visits, full board accommodation in double rooms (two participants per room), health insurance (see below) and transfers to and from the airport. Airfares and daily allowance are not included in the scholarship.
Health Services
Medical insurance covers medical services and hospitalization in case of emergency. It does not cover the treatment of chronic or serious diseases, specific medications taken by the participant on a regular basis, dental care and eyeglasses. Health authorities recommend that visitors to Israel make sure they have been inoculated against tetanus in the last ten years. Subject to the full binding policy conditions. Participants are responsible for all other expenses.
The course will be held at the A. Ofri International Training Center, situated in the Ramat Rachel Hotel on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Participants will be accommodated in double rooms (two participants per room).
Last datye for Application: 11th october 2017.