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Cambridge International Diploma in Teaching and Learning (CIDTL)
Cambridge Professional Development Qualifications (PDQs) provide a strong framework to support the effective continuing professional development of in-service teachers and trainers by focussing on training teachers for learner-centred practices and reflective thinking. The aim is to transform teachers into becoming empathetic and empowering facilitators of education.
Through this course practicing teachers will be able to:
- Engage critically with relevant concepts, principles, theories and best practices from around the world.
- Apply new ideas and approaches in reflective practice in their own teaching and learning context
- Formatively evaluate experiences to plan further development.
- Transform the quality of teaching and school leadership to improve the outcomes of students.
In the Diploma, you will have the opportunity to:
- Understand principles of learning and teaching, and relate these critically to your own practice
- Critically engage with educational theory and research evidence to inform and develop your professional thinking
- Design coherent lessons and schemes of learning that focus on planning for active learning and teaching
- Use a variety of approaches to teaching and learning appropriately to help students to learn more effectively
- Develop your personal reflective practice skills, enriched by ideas and experience from external sources
- Learn collaboratively, supporting and supported by your colleagues.
Module 1 can be taken on its own as the Certificate. You can then progress to Modules 2 and 3 to complete the Diploma.
You need to:
- Be a full- or part-time teacher or a trainer employed in an educational institution such as a school, college, university, or adult training centre
- Be responsible for planning, teaching and formatively assessing groups of learners
- Teach in your current organisation for a full academic year, or for a minimum of 24 weeks, and a minimum of six hours per week
- Have the regular support of a mentor who understands the essential principles that underpin this qualification, and can provide helpful advice based on observations of your teaching sessions
- Teach a group with a minimum of six learners.
Candidates are assessed through an ePortfolio of evidence, submitted to a team of Cambridge International examiners using PDQ Connect, an online platform. In the portfolio, you demonstrate your knowledge, skills and understanding in the context of your own work. Portfolio evidence includes:
- Observing a colleague’s classroom practice
- Planning, teaching, learning and assessment materials that arise naturally out of the teaching process
- Feedback from mentor, colleagues, students and others
- Your own reflections on your learning and practice.
