First apprenticeship teacher training course next month

The Tellal Institute (Teacher Learning and Leadership for All), a teacher training institute along with Gems, will offer its first training course to teachers next month.

The institute will provide a curriculum, including specialist routes in Early Years, Arabic and Special Educational Needs, for pre-service and in-service teachers in the UAE. Tellal will commence with a pilot programme using Gems network of schools as sites of learning.

The Apprenticeship Teacher Training (ATT) Programme is aimed at supporting aspiring and existing teachers through a 10-month course available to all graduates who have a passion and desire to shape the future of education.

Tellal promises to support and encourage schools to collaborate in ‘growing their own teachers’. Through the programme, teachers will develop and learn in real life school environments, while schools can nurture their own teaching and leadership capabilities.

Dr Linda Rush, Vice President, Teacher Training, Tellal, said: “It is a schools-led, schools-situated model of teacher learning which has proven to work very effectively elsewhere. Our conversations with education regulators in the UAE have shown how the apprenticeship model of teacher training has enormous potential for teachers here, especially Emirati teachers.

“Promoting an environment in which there is a mutual interest of growth for both educators and students; an environment in which we build the global leaders of tomorrow is the need of the hour.”

Applications for the pilot programme opened earlier this year, and the course is scheduled to start in August 2016. During the 10 months of training, teachers and educators will be immersed in a collaborative, engaging and challenging environment. Moreover candidates will have the chance to interact with the latest technologies.

The first batch of 160 graduate students will start classes in September 2016. By next year, it is hoping to reach out across all groups of schools across the Emirates in support of recruitment and training of teachers in this schools-led manner.

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