The CCP aims to create a CCP community of teachers who are well aligned with the most current approaches of teaching, assessment and technology in general education curricula.
During the academic year 2018/2019, the CCP has undergone an extensive Academic Program Review (APR) and a structured enhancement process where all key stakeholders and representatives from all QU colleges and departments were involved. All stakeholders, as well as external reviewers’ feedback, has been incorporated into a CCP Enhancement Plan (CCP-EP). As part of the CCP-EP recommendations, the CCP should adopt more effective, innovative and student-centered approaches to teaching and assessment.
To this end, the Certificate in Teaching Core Curriculum Courses Program (Shortened as Core Curriculum Certificate and abbreviated as CCC) has been designed and developed in collaboration with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CTEL) and the National Center for Educational Development (NCED) as a certificate-awarding body.
Purpose of the CCC
The CCC’s purpose is to equip instructors, who are teaching CCP courses and referred to hereinafter as “CCP Teachers”, with a good foundation in general education philosophy as well as acquainting them with the CCP mission, objectives, and learning outcomes.
The overarching goal is to provide CCP Teachers with the theoretical and practical knowledge of effective and innovative in terms of Teaching and Assessment in General Education.
More specifically, the CCC aims to:
- Orientate CCP Teachers about the philosophy of General Education and the Core Curriculum Program at Qatar University.
- Enable CCP Teachers to:
- Use effective tools to engage General Education (GE) students
- Use student-centered approaches to multidisciplinary teaching
- Integrate relevant technology in teaching and learning
- Align their teaching and assessment approaches with the CCP PLOs
- Use the CCP assessment rubrics effectively to measure students’ learning outcomes.
The CCC Certification
The Professional Certificate in Teaching Core Curriculum Courses (CCC) is an engaging process through which QU current or future instructors get teaching certification conferred by QU NCED as they complete a certain number of training hours that concludes with a peer observation activity at the end of the Program. It is noticed that CCC overall program is following different phases.
The program has been endorsed by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).
Trainers from the AAC&U will be involved in delivering most of the sessions during the inaugural cycle of the program. QU Trainers/Champions will be identified and prepared during the first cycle of the certification to deliver all sessions during the following cycles of the program.
To achieve the above objectives, several workshops were designed based on the relevant literature in education and informed by focus-group interviews with a random sample of the instructors teaching CCP courses.