Millennium Institute of Professional Development

It’s a common phrase “what gets measured gets done.” Defining and measuring effectiveness is a critical task and that need support in term of continuous enrichment and development at the workplace. Keeping in mind the paradigm shift in the 21st century working environment, MIPD has a comprehensive framework which has two tiers of Essential and Extended Trainings to cater the needs of TME and external educators’ community.

Tiers have clear bifurcations based on priority of skills, behaviors, and attitudes that the TME faculty member in their workplace need to perform their roles effectively as a trained faculty member is critical to academic achievement. Essential programmes are aimed at answering what, why and how questions. They are mandatory for all staff to attend after the completion of their probation period in their particular domain. The main purpose is to ensure the standardization of practices across the organization. However, Extended programmes covers International courses and workshops. These continuous professional development opportunities are provided to teacher, school leaders and other staff members who have been with organization for at least three years and would like to develop their practice in specific areas. These training sessions encourage teachers, school leaders and other participants to reflect on their practices. Creativity, innovation, and critical thinking are the hall mark of these courses.

MIPD Frame work is comprises of 5 Major Strands based on specific “competencies” required by the individuals in two categories as mentioned above of Essential & Extended;

1.       Teaching & Learning

2.       Digital Inclusions

3.       Academic Leadership

4.       Administration

5.       Edge

Frame work is designed to cater following intentions;

·         Ensure that all TME faculty demonstrate sufficient expertise and mentor new staff more effectively.

·         Evaluate performance more effectively and with tangible date after induction training.

·         Identify skill and competency gaps more efficiently.

·         Provide more customized training and professional development.

·         Plan sufficiently for succession and make change management processes work more efficiently.

TME endorse the fact that every individual requires the training for performing the various activities in a systematic manner. Trainings and professional development are prime opportunities to expand the knowledge base of all employees in every field of TME both as an individual and as a whole. All programmes are relevant as per the abilities, domains and SOPs of The Millennium Education. As per policy MIPD ensures that any employee being hired in any capacity will get an orientation and complete workshop as an induction and then in succession they will do extended courses. The overall purpose of this framework is to assess, maintain, and monitor the knowledge, skills, and attributes of people in The Millennium Education and promote merit based succession. Training framework allows our faculty to measure their current competency levels to make sure that they all must have the required expertise needed to add value to the organization and self enhancement. We in MIPD know the fact that professional development is different in diverse settings, and even within one setting there may be a variety of dimensions. There is not “one best” form of professional development that can be implemented anywhere therefore, we have range of programmes to cater and sustain our future needs and our cultural beliefs and give all members opportunities of National and International exposure to sustain the sense of efficacy and professional motivation.

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MIPD provides an inclusive culture for everyone ensuring equal access to trainings, catering to individual needs, in order to enable candidates, to fully participate in the learning process. The main goal of MIPD is to systematically design and implement educational programmes to equip all those involved in the education of young learners with an ability to employ action in the right direction. The training opportunities are based on a varied range of enrichment activities which aim to provide basic knowledge of teaching and learning and modern pedagogical techniques which help teachers to fulfill their full potential. We also provide support and guidance to all staff members and participants from other organisations to build their career with a provision of well thought out activities. At MIPD, The teacher training courses are specifically designed to shape and empower teachers to be the very best that they can be, to strive daily to deliver the very best learning outcomes for each and every child. Our teachers’ motto is – “EVERY CHILD, EVERY CHANCE, and EVERY DAY.”

Essentials

The Essentials programmes address the foundations of day-to-day business work. From academic writing and presentation skills to soft-skills, practicing appropriate professional etiquette, and

communicating effectively and presenting research based work in an organize manner. These qualifications are designed and offered to teachers, administrative staff (campus managers), middle management (school coordinators, level or subject coordinators) and school leaders (Principals, section heads). The content and instructions cater to specific needs of departments and professionals. The wide range of PD opportunities in this domain help the professionals in developing their professional profile and competence. These training programmes are available face to face, online or a blend of both. Qualified team of trainers and qualification specialists have designed the content of these training programmes.

Extended

Extended Programmes covers International courses and workshops. These CPD opportunities are provided to teacher, school leaders and other staff members who have been teaching in schools for at least three years and would like to develop their practice in specific areas. These training sessions encourage teachers, school leaders and other participants to reflect on their practices. Creativity, innovation, and critical thinking are the hall mark of these courses. There three different

strands offered at this level.

Teachers and school leaders can choose to focus on:

1- Concepts or ideas (subject based)

2- Skills ( job based)

3- A particular aspect of a syllabus, curriculum framework or requirement related to job description.

Millennial schools are found across the country, in a range of different social, cultural, economic settings. This variety means that detailed recommendations will not be relevant or helpful.  Effective teachers will learn from educational research and their own experience, adapt ideas intelligently and apply them to their current context. We have designed the MIPD Teaching Standards to be as open as possible so teachers can apply them to their own contexts. They are based on the principle that effective teaching has many common practices, so they are relevant to all teachers in Millennium schools. The standards are consistent with contemporary international research into effective teaching. Teachers who use the Standards to evaluate their own practice and guide their continuing professional development should be in a strong position to achieve the desired curriculum outcomes. Teachers aspiring to develop their career prospects will find the standards a helpful guide to the scope of the teaching role and aspects they want to develop.

There are eight MIPD Teacher’s Standards. Each Standard contains a number of individual Standard statements that are detailed and concrete. They outline what a teacher should know and be able to do, or demonstrate, in terms of their professional knowledge, practice and engagement. The Standards provide a benchmark for what we call a Good Teacher. Teachers use standards to reflect on teaching practices and help them to determine areas and priorities for their own professional development. This might include participating in an appropriate national and international professional development qualification and certification programme. These training programmes are designed in alignment with the attributes of millennial learners and teachers are also relevant to the standards set for the good teachers. MIPD helps schools carry out self-evaluation and identify the areas in teaching and learning where they need help in their school development plans. MIPD then plans and provides an effective and comprehensive training programme to convert weaknesses into strengths. All the training programmes offered by MIPD which include Core, Essential and Extended are designed to develop these standards amongst teachers.

Cambridge Professional Development Qualifications

Cambridge Professional Development Qualifications (PDQs) offered by MIPD are internationally recognised as a mark of excellence for the individual teacher or educational leader. The  qualifications help to improve teachers’ and leaders’ professional profiles and are valued for further professional and career development. In MIPD we are offering following qualification:

1. Certificate and Diploma in Teaching and Learning

The Certificate and Diploma are for practising teachers. Candidates focus on the development of knowledge, skills and understanding in the key aspects of teaching and learning. The programme is inclusive and relevant to all teaching and learning contexts: from primary and secondary general education, to adult and higher education.

2. The Certificate and Diploma in Teaching with Digital Technologies

The Certificate and Diploma is designed to help candidates to use digital technologies effectively and appropriately in supporting their learners’ learning. The qualifications encourage candidates to experiment with new techniques and technologies. These are flexible qualifications, relevant to a wide variety of contexts: from situations where digital technologies are commonplace and easily accessible, to those where they are less so. Candidates may be at any stage in their teaching career. They may have already started using digital technologies in their teaching or be relatively new to them.

3. The Certificate and Diploma in Educational Leadership

The Certificate and Diploma are designed to help leaders develop their professional thinking and practice, to enhance their knowledge, skills and understanding of effective leadership, leadership

practice, school and its effectiveness. These qualifications help practising leaders to study what is known about successful leadership; to focus on the key ideas and challenges, leadership theories, and actions of highly effective leaders; and to develop their reflective practice as leaders. The Certificate and Diploma are for those who have a leadership role in schools, but also those who work in school districts, regional centres or other parts of the educational system.  In future MIPD is planning to offer Certificate for Bilingual Teaching & Diploma in Educational Leadership

British Council Enrichment programmes

Enrichment Professional Development is offered by MIPD to teachers and school leaders who would like to develop their practice in specific areas. This level of training encourages teachers to reflect on, and take greater responsibility for their teaching as well as become more innovative in their classroom practice. There are three different strands MIPD offer at this level. Teachers and school leaders can choose to focus on:

1.     Skills, concepts or ideas (subject based)

2.     Skills, concepts or ideas (not subject-based)

3.     A particular aspect of a syllabus or curriculum framework.

Caché Qualifications

Caché qualifications has been established (1945), its valued brand working globally with education providers who offer their qualifications to learners in schools in countries such as UAE, Qatar, Malaysia, India and China. They have been certifying Training Centres since 1945 and continually investing in high quality qualifications in education industry, making them one of the UK’s leading sector specialist. MIPD is fortunate to declare itself as an approved centre of Caché qualifications for three qualification, deliberating to our belief that great training providers need great qualifications. MIPD would be soon offering training under Caché qualifications. Anyone interested meeting the eligibility can benefit from it. MIPD offers the following qualification:

1. Diploma for early years workforce (Early year education)

2. Diploma in Supporting teaching and learning.

3. Award in supporting teaching and learning.

Society of Pakistan English Language – SPELT

The Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers (SPELT) is a professional body committed to the training of teachers, to teach English effectively. MIPD provides this professional forum for practitioners teaching English as a Foreign or Second language, to facilitate effective communication and to improve the teaching standards of English. MIPD provides teachers opportunity to attend training workshops and annual international conferences organised by SPELT on vital themes in the English language niche.

With MIPD PDQs my classroom has become learner-centric buzzing with activities informed by the learning objectives and a variety of formative assessment techniques followed by reflection.

Tooba Sohail
Cambridge Certificate in Teaching and Learning Cohort-3

I did MEYEW last year and this year I am progressing with MFTLP. Today I feel myself confident in using different pedagogies during lesson to achieve maximum learning outcomes. I am happy because, my learners are engrossed in the content and they exhibit this in their assessments.

Ayesha Iqbal
Millennium Foundation of Teaching and Learning Programmes – Cohort 4

I found new me in me who can think critically and construct new perspective to increase cognitive but constructive engagement of my team. All topics were relevant to the ‘actual scenarios’ and lots to new dimensions, work on after the workshop.

Asma Saleem
Cambridge Certificate in Educational Leadership Cohort-2