| Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit Hours |
Prerequests |
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471701
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Teaching & Learning Strategies
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3 |
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| This course addresses the notion of strategy and the theories of learning and teaching, focusing on learning for teaching and self-education. It also compares between teacher-centred strategies such as direct instruction, lecturing and demonstration and learner-centred strategies such as cooperative learning, project-based learning, community-based learning, inquiry learning, and pioneer learning. The course merges between theory and practice as each strategy is practiced through micro-teaching or research projects. |
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471703
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Advanced Course in Educational Planning & Design
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3 |
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| This course deals with the concept of education planning, its design, its fields and its benefits for both teacher and student. It deals with the terms of the education plan according to the Darwazeh Model for the design of education, such as the general educational goals, the specific behavioral content, administrative and educational activities, electronic and non-electronic teaching tools, and orthodontic tools at the theoretical and practical levels. It also deals with the model image of the education plan to ensure the quality of each item, the consistency among these items; the framework within which the planning process takes place, as well as the characteristics of the individual learner, and the possibilities available in the learning environment. |
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471705
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Advanced Course in Measurement & Evaluation
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3 |
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| This course addresses the notion of academic assessment and the difference between assessment, evaluation and research. It also focuses on alternative assessment and its various tools, as well the internal and external standards on which it is based. In addition to the different patterns of evaluation. The course aims to match the different methods of evaluation to the objectives and the content. It also discusses assessment and evaluation tools for both the learner and the institution, considering assessment as a learning tool |
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471707
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Employing Technology in Teaching & Learning
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3 |
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| This course addresses the strategies of employing technology in teaching and learning, focusing on a number of related notions such as open learning, e-learning, blended learning, and electronic course design. It also addresses the notion of open electronic sources, how to produce and publish them, and how to access and make use of the published resources through databases and free open online sources. It also addresses the electronic publishing and its ethics and licensing. |
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471709
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Teachers Training & Qualifying
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3 |
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| This course addresses the notion of teacher training and professional development. It focuses on factors that make a qualified teacher as the construction of educational objectives, special behaviors and the analysis of educational content including facts, principles, concepts and procedures. It also focuses on educational activities, on both electronic and non-electronic teaching aids, mind-energizers, educational questions, student performance, classroom management, dealing with disruptive behavior, and providing a safe learning environment. The course also addresses the teacher’s role as a mentor, an evaluator, a supervisor, a planner, an administrator, an academic, a technology and multimedia user, a lesson designer, and a leader who encourages students to interact in the learning environment, including with peers, teachers, the principal, the learning material and the community. Finally, it addresses pre-service and in-service teacher training programs and their objectives taking into consideration international training models. |
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471713
|
Quantitative Research Methods
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3 |
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| This course addresses methods of quantitative research, comparing between them in terms of the steps for each method, starting from specifying the problem and ending with the results and recommendations. It also addresses tools for data collection and how to build them and check their validity and reliability, and then the actual data collection process, the coding and analysis processes. Specifically, the course addresses the descriptive and analytical statistical treatments and the exams used in it as T and F tests. The course focuses on special statistical programs such as SPSS, SAS and others. This course also addresses quantitative research ethics. |
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471714
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Qualitative Research Methods
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3 |
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| This course deals with qualitative scientific research methods and a comparison between these methods and the scientific research steps of each of them from the identification of the problem to the conclusion of the results and the writing of recommendations. It also deals with data collection tools, how to prepare them, and to download, encode and analyze data manually or using software such as the Nvivo Reference Management Program (Endnote). As well as the ethics of qualitative research. |
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471715
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Educational Psychology
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3 |
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| This course deals with the notion of educational psychology as one major field of psychology, and its importance for students, teachers, administrators and mentor in general. It talks about behaviourism; it principles, and its scientists such Pavlov, Skinner, Thorndike and others. It discusses their experiments on reinforcements, rewards and punishments, conditioned and unconditioned learning, learning by trial and error and learning by imitation. It also addresses cognitivism; its principles and scientists such as Kohler, Koffka, Wertheimer, and Levine and others. As well as its more modern advocates such as Ausubel, Bruner, and Bloom. The course also addresses learning proficiency and its factors, motivation and how to encourage it, and individual differences and how to take care of them. |
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471798
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Qualifying Exam
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0 |
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| The student must pass the qualifying exam successfully. |
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471799
|
Thesis
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18 |
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| Includes the preparation of the thesis and success in the discussion in accordance with the instructions to grant a PhD degree at An-Najah National University. |
| Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit Hours |
Prerequests |
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471801
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Educational Taxonomies & Needs Analysis
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3 |
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| This course addresses the notion of general instructional objectives and special behavioural ones, their patterns and functions, their sources, the way to formulate them, their features and taxonomies such as the taxonomy of Merrill, Anderson, and the latest taxonomy of Darwazeh. In addition, the course addresses the distinction between gaols, objectives, ends and outcomes. It also aims to analyse the community needs and the market’s requirements, how to specify and measure them, and how to turn them into educational objectives to be worked on and achieved. |
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471802
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Educational Supervision & its Relation with Teaching Design
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3 |
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| This course addresses the notion of educational supervision, its theories, and types. Moreover, it focuses on factors that affect the development and future, in addition to its challenges and its educational applications. It also identifies the relationships between the educational supervision plan and the components of the plan of the teaching design. This identification is done through the study of educational and behavioral goals, teaching methods, stimulating learners' motivation, the use of reinforcement, identifying individual differences among students, classroom interaction, the employment of an automated and non-automated teaching aids, formative and summative assessment, final practice, in addition to addressing supervisory visits’ goals and numbers, which tend to give guidance and feedback for teachers. It also discusses the patterns of educational supervision and its various methods in the light of a rapidly evolving digital age which requires a renewed vision of learning. |
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471803
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Contemporary Issues & Trends in Teaching & Learning
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3 |
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| This course addresses aspects of contemporary issues and trends related to teaching and learning as planning, designing, developing, setting strategies, implementing, management, evaluation, supervision and follow-up according to the latest results of the psychological and the educational studies in the field of education. These studies will be discussed, analyzed, and employed to investigate how they contribute to the learning process. |
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471804
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Education for Special Needs
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3 |
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| This course addresses the notion of special education, teaching strategies for students of special needs and patterns for educating them. It also addresses their integration with ordinary students by affording skilled teachers, infrastructure, psychological care, environmental preparation, educational curricula and appropriate textbooks. It also addresses the legal framework for educating students with special needs in addition to the international and national legislations and laws that guarantee their education. |
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471805
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Teaching Ethics & Standards
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3 |
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| This course addresses the ethics of the teaching profession, its principles, values and teachers’ duties toward their profession and rights, in addition to their role as mentors, supervisors, facilitators to the educational process, and models to their students. This course discusses the nature of relationships between the teacher and students, between the teachers themselves, and all the school employees according to the schools’ regulations, which are based on mutual respect, democracy and respect to human rights. This course emphasizes the role of teachers in achieving citizenship, raising the status of the country and raising a generation who contributes to the future of his country through the creation of literature, virtues, science and knowledge. |
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471806
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Learning Strategies & Cognitive Skills
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3 |
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| This course addresses the notion of human memory, its sections and functions, how it works in in acquiring, storing, retaining, and retrieving information. It also addresses the following areas: cognitive, meta-cognitive and learning strategies that students employ to help them understand, learn and not forget the learning material. In other words, it helps students in writing questions, taking notes, summarizing the learning material, using imagery for memorization, drawing concept maps, setting instructions and guidelines, and writing introductions, abstracts and reviews. |
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471807
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Seminar in Ph.D. Dissertations Writing
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3 |
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| This course addresses the parts of the PhD dissertation and its writing process according to the university’s instructions. It addresses the writing of the thesis proposal in its various stages. Furthermore, it concentrates on the mechanisms of using databases, referencing and reference citation, including their management tools. In addition, the course addresses the ethics of scientific research, publishing, authorship and intellectual property. |
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471808
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Seminar in Educational Curricula
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3 |
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| This course addresses the notion of educational curricula, their past and modern components, and the principles that they are based on, such as the psychological, cognitive, social and philosophical ones. Moreover, the course addresses the curricula types such as the separate and connected course materials, the teaching units, the activity, experience, project approach, pivotal approach. In addition, the course addresses the relationship between democracy and curriculum. It also discusses the definition of the curriculum content and its analysis methods, such as the hierarchical, the procedural, and the transitional methods. The course also addresses the organization of the curriculum, whether it proceeds from the easy to the difficult, or from the physical to the abstract. It also sheds the light on the hierarchical organization principle, the progressive and retroactive sequences, linear and expansive sequences, spatial and temporal convergence. |
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471809
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Seminar in Management & Educational Leadership
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3 |
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| This course is designed to addresses the notion of educational administration, its theories, problems, challenges, and its development. Furthermore, it discusses the democratic atmosphere, the organizational atmosphere and its development, the characteristics of a successful school administration, modern administrative policies and the tasks of the principal toward teachers, the students, the employees and the Ministry of Education. The course also addresses the principal’s administrative role in many different areas. These roles, from one side include leadership, teacher evaluation, student discipline, and many others according to the school rules, and, from the other side, it includes leading the process of developing and designing curriculum, as well as evaluating and developing the performance of teachers and students in the school according to the latest theories in education. This course also tackles the notion of educational leadership and its theories compared with the theories of educational administration. |
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471810
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Reading in Advanced International Educational Systems: (Comparative Studies)
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3 |
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| This course addresses the international models of distinctive educational systems, compares between them and draws conclusion in order to develop a Palestinian model in light of the analysis of the Palestinian reality. This course is based on case study, comparative research, and lesson derivation. Moreover, it focuses on analyzing published scientific papers and international educational reports such as Human Development reports, Education for All reports and UNESCO reports to make comparisons between countries. |
