The Effectiveness of Professional Development Programs Offered to Heads of Faculty in Kindergartens and Primary Schools in Al Ain by Abu Dhabi Education Council

United Arab Emirates University

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The Effectiveness of Professional Development

Programs Offered to Heads of Faculty in

Kindergartens and Primary Schools in Al Ain by

Abu Dhabi Education Council

Ramla Karama Ahmed Al Amiri

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The effectivene of profe ional development prouram offered to Head of Faculty in kindergarden and primary chool in al in by Abu Dhabi

Education Council

The study aimed to inve tigate and gath r per pectives regarding the efft ctivene�_ c [

the training programs offered by ADEC to the RoF . The researcher u ed both

qualitative and quantitative data collection methods in order t an \\er the re ear h

questions. A survey inclusive of 38 question \va used, and it "va divid d into � lIr

sections pertaining to profe sional development. These ection were made up f: the importance of professional development programs; their goal; pecification ; ami evaluation.

The result sho\ ed that participants agreed on four areas but using defferent level or agreement that descended from first, the importance of profe sional development programs; second, the speciflcations of the program; third, the objective of the program, and lastly the e aluation of the program. The findings unco ered that there was a significant difference in all areas, except for the evaluation of the current professional de elopment program. This was due to the participants' dissati [action of the program. Recommendations were made in light of the findings and the follo \ ing were proposed:

1. DEC should conduct more tudie in order to identify the actual needs o[ the

HoFs in a more effecti e manner.

2. ADEC should provide additional support to high HoFs through moti ational

incentives by rewarding distinguished and performing HoFs.

3. ADEC should involve HoFs in decision making with particular reference to the qualit of the professional development programs.

4. ADEC should establish and provide a communication channel for HoFs to communicate with departments within ADEC.

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