Training and Professional Development (TPD) Stream Higher Education Project

The TPD’s main purpose is to provide general pedagogic training for faculty of education members in all 19 4-year universities in Afghanistan. The first module of this training concerns course, Designing an Integrated University Course (DIUC), unit and lesson planning. Subsequent modules will focus on assessment and evaluation, teaching/learning activities, student support, educational psychology and a variety of faculty professional development topics.
 

All courses require the faculty participants to present and write individual assignments. The written assignments will be published on this website for the use of all participants and prospective participants. We at the TPD hope that publishing these assignments will promote communication and collaboration between faculty members on all campuses so that they can secure the future of higher education in Afghanistan, especially in terms of increasing the quality of teaching and, as a result, creating ever more rewarding learning experiences for the students.
 
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The participants’ course assignments are published on this website to promote sharing of ideas about the course topics. All work is the intellectual property of the writer. As such, any copying of this work, even short sections of the work, is theft and is forbidden.

Participants in TPD courses can read these assignments and communicate with the authors by email or by the course blog. In addition, participants can submit drafts of their assignments to the course trainers or fellow participants for review and comment. Participants are encouraged to revise and improve their work based on this type of communication.

However, all written work submitted by participants as individual assignments must be the original work of the participant. If any participant submits work that is completely or partially copied from any source, they will be failed in the course and their case will be submitted to university authorities for disciplinary action.

If there is any question in the participant’s minds as to what constitutes ‘plagiarism’, they should ask their course trainer, submitting their written work and noting where they got their ideas from. The course trainer will inform the participant if what they wrote is in violation of this policy.

As teachers and participants in pedagogic training, it is important to share ideas and work together at times during the course. However, for individual assignments, this freedom to read and discuss other people’s work comes with the responsibility to act responsibly and honesty.

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