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UPCOMING

EVENTS FOUNDATION PROGRAM

WORKSHOPS

October

12 October MIXED ABILITY CLASSES
Understanding DU This workshop was organized by the
PD committee and led by Ahmed Al
Research Guidelines
29 October Ani on February 19. The purpose was
Birth of Prophet to acquaint teachers with the latest
(tentative) research on mixed ability classes,
November which have become a reality for
several reasons. Differentiating
25-26 November
National Day (tentative) instruction helps tailor courses to
meet individual needs by modifying
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the content, the process and
1 December the product. The workshop included
End of FP Term 1
13 December discussions and group work.
Start of FP Term 2
29 December
Last day of classes for
Colleges
January

27 - 30 January
Online Registration for
Colleges
February
25 February CRITICAL THINKING
Math Online Teaching, The workshop was part of professional development training
Learning, and prepared by Cambridge University Press. The workshop, conducted

Assessment: by Mohamed Achamsi on January 2, aimed at understanding what
Challenges and critical thinking is and what critical thinkers actually do. It also
Solutions webinar addressed the importance of critical thinking in today’s learning
contexts. Finally, the workshop allowed parti-cipants to see how
critical thinking is developed in the Second edition of Unlock.

ANALYZING DATA IN RESEARCH
Dr. Wajdi Hamza Dawod held an SPSS workshop on November 24
to help Foundation Program instructors in doing their research and
analyzing results. SPSS (Statistical Product and Service Solutions) is
one of the most popular statistical packages that can perform highly
complex data manipulation and analysis with simple instructions.

Other key objectives examined the windows in SPSS, the basics of
managing data, and the basic analysis in SPSS.