SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Teacher Development Unit

What is TDU?

The Teacher Development Unit (TDU) was established to provide in-service support and development to enable language teachers to achieve their full potential, operating on the premise that teachers who continue to learn make more effective instructors. Since the school was established in the year 2001 there has been a TDU which has been in charge of organizing “structured” developmental activities for the teaching staff within the school. The activities offered by the TDU mainly centre around the following areas: Classroom observations, workshops –with teacher involvement-, short courses, and projects (Reflective Teaching and Learning, Reading, SIG, etc.). The types of the activities to be offered to the teachers are usually determined by the trainers in charge of the unit as well as the administrators of the school by taking into consideration the needs of the teachers working in the school. As for the content of the activities, the teachers’ opinions are asked (the topics of certain workshops, for example) through questionnaires. For more detail information about the TDU activities we highly recommend you surf through our website.