Teaching approaches promote students to offer dynamic and motivated responses. Written policies and procedures are in place to ensure that the curricula are followed and that there is consistency of application by all instructional staff. The instructional methodology is consistent with current training industry standards and appropriate to the educational goals and curricular objectives, facilitates learning, and serves the individual learning needs and objectives of learners. Instructional methods provide encouragement, motivation, and learning opportunities for all learners, taking into account various backgrounds, learning abilities and styles, prior levels of achievement, and different learning modalities.
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V. A. 1. Describe the institution’s teaching methods utilized for each program and/or course. Include specific reference to how such methods actively involve students in learning. How does input obtained from professional organizations and/or other outside sources inform and influence the choice of instructional methodology?
TVTC gives the instructor full authorization to choose the appropriate technique and method to convey the required skills to the trainee in a way that suits the nature of the training packages as well as the trainees. The method of training used in the training process depends on the training attitude. HCT encourages instructors to use a variety of educational and training methods as a means for instructional methodology.
It is worth mentioning that HCT ensures the trainer implements the right method to deliver educational objectives to the students with efficiency and effectiveness in a way that allows students to achieve the required skills in each course. The successful trainer can use more than one technique when teaching a certain lesson in a way that suits and satisfies the trainees’ needs.
In other words, HCT uses a wide array of teaching methods, which are based on content, goals, learner ability, and the training attitude. Teaching methods include student evaluations as well as regular classroom observations by the department head to monitor the quality of teaching and reflect on teaching practices, the effectiveness of student learning, course design and delivery, and make necessary improvements. The main teaching methods for most of the courses offered by the college are lectures, demonstration-performance, computer- based training method, and group learning method.
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V. A. 2. How does the institution advise faculty of the institution's instructional methodology? What processes are in place to ensure a reasonable degree of consistency in methodology among instructors, in accordance with institutional policy?
The vice dean and the head of the training department approve the courses’ plans and discuss the appropriate training methodologies with instructors before approving the courses’ plans. The vice dean makes supervisory visits to the departments and regular meetings are conducted to solve any issues and address the needs of instructors during the semester. In addition, the head of training department pays supervisory visits to the instructors at the training workshops, hence giving the required instructions and sharing the process of laying out the training plan with the instructors. The head of training department may suggest appropriate methods and mediums of training as well as advising the instructors to abide by the bylaws the instructor's guidebook. In other words, the training unit in HCT advises the staff with regard to the training methodologies through providing training plans for each course.
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V. A. 3. Describe how the teaching methodologies are: (a) supported by the relevant instructional materials, (b) suitable for the attainment of the educational objectives in each program and/or course, and (c) appropriate for the needs of the population served, including their various learning modalities (e.g., aural, visual, kinesthetic, experiential, etc.)
The use of educational aids is based on trainees’ individual differences. In other words, sometimes we use visual aids such as presentations and films of practical training others use audio aids to compare between the sound of a broken part and the sound of the good part when explaining troubleshooting or maintaining certain training equipment. The experiment may be presented live by taking the trainees to the labor market to watch a production process in real factories and workshops.
Most of classes in HCT are supplied with advanced data show, smart boards, and instructor’s computer with internet connection to facilitate training. The curriculum also is supported with educational aids which suit and serve the targeted individuals. The main training aids are the visual aids such as the interactive blackboard, PowerPoint presentations, instructional panels, and models. The audio aids as tape recorders. The motion aids includes role playing that serves training process and finally experimental aids refer to experiments and demonstrations inside labs.
The aforementioned methodologies are presented in tandem with lecturing, discussion, lab experiments, trips and visits, as well as cooperative training. The following is a brief explanation for these techniques.
Lecturing:
Lectures are presented accompanied by the instructional aides such as the intelligent blackboard, normal blackboard as well as supporting the curriculum with drawings, layouts and related audio tapes.
Discussion:
A form of verbal communication ( a dialogue or free discussion) between the instructor and the trainee based on questions and answers.
Lab experiments:
Using visual presentation in addition to practicing skills by trainees which they acquired through lectures presented in the labs and workshops.
Trips and visits:
Organized by the college, trainees pay field visits to the related companies and factories to get acquainted with the latest developments in the labor market, hence them their acquired skills. Also, the college or higher institute may organize external visits for the distinctive trainees. Such visits may include some industrial countries for the purpose of encouraging the trainees to explore their talents.
Cooperative training:
The trainee joins the cooperative training after completing his specialization requirements. In this program the trainee starts training in an industrial establishment for a full training semester (13 weeks) where he gains practical skills in his profession. A supervisor instructor shall administer the training process by observing closely and periodically the trainee performance to know how he gained the required skills .At the end of the training semester, the trainee shall be evaluated by the supervisor, the company or the factory and the college or institute as well.
It is worth mentioning that HCT improves instructors’ efficiency through offering resources and facilities to support learning and teaching, promoting the use of educational technologies to support learning and teaching, providing facilities that support effective teaching and learning, and rewarding innovation as well as excellence in teaching methods.
V. A. 4. What guidance is provided to instructional staff on identifying and accommodating individual differences in the classroom to encourage and challenge students to achieve their educational objectives?
HCT employs various ways to make students achieve their educational objectives through encouraging staff to use different methods training according to the trainees’ needs and individual differences. In addition, the counselor provides assistance in solving the educational, social, and psychological problems that affect the trainees. Moreover, trainees’ educational objectives can be achieved in supporting them with any help related to the course or to their achievements. In other words, urge the trainee making use of office hours for any help related to the course and provide trainees with any support related to the course after supervisory visits. HCT also provide the instructors with feedback which comes from trainees after finishing a semester.
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V. A. 5. Describe how the institution ensures that its methods address both challenged and advanced students and provide the assistance needed by those students to enhance their learning experience.
HCT has various strategic objectives to improve trainees’ learning experience. For example, HCT encourages trainees to be successful and innovative as well as sponsoring the distinctive ones in specialized programs. In addition, HCT promotes trainees learning experience through making specialized field visits and offering cooperative training at the end of training for one complete training semester at a company embracing the same area of trainees’ specialization. Besides that, HCT helps graduate students to create their own future with many of the local organizations which support their skills. Furthermore, HCT encourages students to create their projects within the content of the training package. Also, HCT conducts additional class time for trainees who need to attain basic skills.
V. A. 6. What is the institution's established teacher-to-student ratio in lecture, lab, and clinical/ practicum? Indicate the rationale for determining the established ratio.
HCT determines teacher-to-student ratio in general studies lecture as 1:45, and the ratio in theoretical specialized lecture is 1:30. HCT also establishes the computer-to-student ratio 1:24 in computer lab.