Course Description:

This course aims at providing newly launched teachers with an understanding of basic teacher competencies that will help give them an experience of success as novice teachers.  Through providing theoretical knowledge, practicing specific skills and completing relevant tasks, this course provides beginning teachers with the confidence and the attitude to be their best in the classroom.


By the end of this course, you will:

  • Understand the main mission and purpose of education

  • Explore Bloom’s taxonomy and how it impacts students’ learning

  • Develop an insight into the importance of teacher’s role

  • Explore the goals of teacher training programs

  • Identify the meaning of effective teaching

  • Recognize teacher’s role in influencing effective teaching

  • Define school and community influences

  • Identify barriers to effective teaching

  • List desirable teaching behaviors

  • Define competencies of effective teaching

  • State professional competencies of teachers

  • Identify components of effective communication

  • Recognize the types of communication style

  • Describe an effective classroom environment

  • Learn how to provide an effective discipline in the classroom

  • Practice the skill of utilizing effective questioning