Congratulations to Shanghai United International School Qingpu Campus for being accredited as a Cambridge PDQ Centre! Professional Development Manager of CAIE East Asia Dr. Julia Yu has been sincerely invited for an opening ceremony.
Cambridge Professional Development Qualifications (Cambridge PDQ), is one of a number of routes that CAIE offers teachers and leaders to enhance their professional practice. The accredited courses are based on international best practices that have real impact and value, creating a globalized learning community. It contains four programmes, Teaching and Learning, Educational Leadership, Teaching Bilingual Learners and Teaching with Digital Technologies.
Cambridge PDQ programme is made up of three modules of guided, individual and collaborative, and work-based learning, of which each module involves 120 hours of learning. Candidates would be certified with a certificate after the completion of module 1, and a diploma after the completion of module 2 and 3. The whole programme covers the areas of active learning strategies, assessment for learning approaches, observations and feedback, evaluations and reflections. The programme of Teaching Bilingual Learners specifically focused on the area of CLIL teaching, being assessed through candidate portfolio of evidence of practice, learning and reflection. The pragmatic skills are easily to be transferred into candidates’ daily teaching either.
Cambridge PDQ programme can help teachers and leaders to apply new ideas and approaches in their own practice, reflecting upon their own thinking and practising, so as to integrate the skills as a core value of their strengths. Cambridge PDQ programme can help schools to establish professional development as an integral part of school development, nurturing collaborative learning community.
Alongside with the opening of SUIS-Qingpu, the School was approved as a Cambridge School, following up with it, the School was approved as a Cambridge PDQ Centre in late October. The key step of being a Centre is to have a Programme Leader to be trained through a ten-week online course with an approval at the end.
It is Xiehe’s history to value teachers’ professional development and we believe that only teachers’ professional development would bring up a better vision to our students.