College of Education Continues to Hold Training Courses for Teachers

The University, represented by the College of Education, continues to hold a number of training courses as part of the summer training programs for male and female teachers. Yesterday, Wednesday, 21/11/1440 A.H., four training courses for the development of male and female teachers in the region were concluded with the attendance and participation of 71 male and female trainees, within the series of courses held over a whole month during the summer training period, at the College of Education headquarters in Al-Malidah for teachers and the College of Education headquarters for female students in Al-Iskan neighborhood in Buraidah for female teachers, which will conclude next Wednesday.

The training courses aimed to equip the male and female trainees with the necessary skills, knowledge and capabilities to apply student-centered learning strategies. Dr. Sultan Al-Muhaimid presented a course entitled "Learner-Centered Education" for men, and Dr. Wafaa Al-Ruqeeba presented it for female teachers, while Dr. Sufyan Al-Rabadi presented a training course entitled "Assessment for Learning" for teachers, and Dr. Nawal Al-Khodr presented it for female teachers, where the trainees interacted with the trainers who presented these courses with modern and varied training methods.

The courses were offered over several days, where the first day dealt with the basic concepts of evaluation, while the second day dealt with the types of evaluation in terms of learning and feedback, while the third day dealt with methods of evaluating knowledge and information and evaluating skill in solving issues: The concept of student-centered learning in teaching, its comparison with traditional education, and its relationship with some learning theories.

The courses also discussed the components of the educational process in student-centered learning, the role of the teacher and the student in light of the characteristics and strategies of this method, the most important challenges facing the teacher in student-centered learning and ways to overcome them, the human brain, the scale of brain dominance or the two halves of the brain, in addition to designing a model lesson in light of student-centered learning strategies, steps to transform a unit or topic into this method of learning, planning a student-centered activity, and evaluation methods in student-centered learning.