عن College of Education Training Courses Center
Vision
Leadership and excellence in the qualification and training of the pedagogical supervisors, managers, instructors and their equivalents to promote the level of the educational process in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Overview
It is one of the oldest Training Courses Centers at Umm Al-Qura University. Since its establishment in 1395 A.H. at the College of Education, its mission has been to plan and organize training courses to supervisors, leading figures, educators, pioneers of activities, teachers, supervisors of curriculum, counsellors, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Defense and Aviation (Department of Culture and Education), the National Guard, and the Royal Authority, and to qualify teachers with a General Diploma in Education.
The director of the Center should be one of the College of Education's experienced and scientifically qualified professors.
Since its establishment, the Center has had its own regulations, bylaws, secretaries, and administration. In addition, it provides highly sought-after services in order to properly develop and train qualified educational personnel.
The Training Courses Center is regarded as one of the most distinguished features of the College of Education in Makkah, at Umm Al-Qura University.
Praise be to Allah, the training courses started more than 35 years ago, through which the College of Education has managed to provide an outstanding service and good experience to many educators since 1393 A.H, not confined to employees working in the educational sector inside Makkah, but also to educators of all regions of the Kingdom who are affiliated to several entities, including the Department of Culture and Education at the Ministry of Defense and Aviation, the National Guard, the Royal Commission of Jubail and Yanbu, and the Ministry of Interior. The first categories to be trained, skillfully developed, and provided with new information were the education leaders from different cities of the Kingdom. Later on, and year after year, programs of the Training Courses Center extended to include the then-heads of educational counselling in departments of education throughout the Kingdom.
These ongoing training courses have been attended by heads of educational counselling, educational supervisors from different specializations and levels, education leaders, supervisors and pioneers of student activities, and teachers who used to work in the field of counselling, guidance, measurement and evaluation. Furthermore, the Center has contributed to the preparation of a very large number of male and female students and male and female teachers through the Program of General Diploma of Education. In addition, it has prepared curriculum supervisors to participate in building, developing and evaluating curricula through the Curriculum Supervisors Course.
Objectives
The center currently works on achieving the following objectives:
- Update the information of the trainees, including teachers, school principals, pedagogical supervisors, leaders, specialists, and their equivalents of educators.
- Provide trainees, scientifically, pedagogically and culturally, with new pedagogical information in their fields of specialties.
- Develop and enhance the skills of the trainees of different educational categories.
- Introduce them to the new pedagogical developments in the fields of pedagogical management, pedagogical supervision, curricula, teaching methods, pedagogical psychology, and Islamic education.
- Develop their scientific, technical, administrative and performance capabilities to be able to solve the problems that face them in their work, and to deal with students and education officials in a positive, effective and fruitful manner.
In addition, the center, in the light of its mission and vision, seeks to achieve a number of goals, such as the following:
- Fulfill the needs of learners among the graduates of specialized colleges to engage in pedagogical specializations and continue their postgraduate studies.
- Invest the potentials of the academic staff and their great capabilities, and benefit from the outstanding learners among them in community service and continuing education.
- Expand the scope of partnership between the university and the community's institutions in a manner that achieves mutual benefit between the university and the various sectors of the society.
- Open the scope of pedagogical training to include all specializations and stages, and serve all the pedagogical sectors throughout the year.
Mission
- Preparing educational graduates for specialized colleges.
- Meeting the needs of the Ministry of Education and its equivalents for contemporary educational training.
- Meeting the needs of learners wishing to continue their higher studies in educational disciplines.