Faculty Preparation Course Orientation Program Reflection

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My experience gained from attending the new faculty preparation course and orientation program or from practicum (in class) could be summarized as follows: I have the ability to define the concept of building the course syllabus, determine the importance of building the course syllabus, distinguish between course syllabus and curriculum, determine the standards of building the course, describe the criteria for writing learning objectives, classify learning objectives using Bloom's taxonomy for content validity (cognitive level), distinguish between higher and lower thinking objectives, write learning objectives according to criteria specified, develop criteria for an effective course outline, reflect on their current approach to writing learning objectives, judge the quality of a list of learning objectives, list the concepts of educational needs, share my peers to determine the learning resources for higher education students, distinguish between the general goals and procedural goals for higher educational course syllabus, distinguish between cognitive, skills and emotional goals, know the rules of formatting the educational goals in well written form for my course for different levels of cognitive, skills and emotional goals and its importance, evaluate which of the goals are well written and which of them are bad according to the rules of formatting goals, determine the procedures of scientific contents of the course, determine the procedures of organization the contents of the course, standardize the criterion for designing instruction goals and objectives, describe how learning objectives direct the instructional process, know the importance of the educational activities during the course, determine the educational activiti...

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... to express any term with a photo (to map this definition in his mind), I teach a mix between English and Arabic words.

Out of class, I give the students an assignment that he will do it as individual then interchange his solution of assignment with his colleagues in his team, then each one review and compare his work with others colleagues in his team and discuss together to prepare the best answer and write it correctly, then they introduce it in my office our to see it and write my comment on their solutions then each one keep a copy of commented assignment.

I thank the DSD from my heart about its efforts to improve the performance, teaching methods, and assessment for the new faculty members.

Again, many thank for DSD and King Saud for their efforts.

By

Dr. Amr Mohamed Youssef Abd-Elaty

Mathematics, Natural Science,

Community College, Riyadh

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