The PhD Teaching Academy program is a blended program developed to prepare PhD students to start a teaching career in the academia. The program allows PhD students to learn how to manage large and small classes and gain hands-on experience with a range of teaching and learning pedagogies, instructional technologies, and best practices.

The PhD Teaching Academy program consists of four modules over two semesters. Each module consists of five 2-hr sessions except the last module which is a full semester apprenticeship. PhD students who successfully finish this program will be qualified to become future faculty members. The program has the following goals to achieve:

• Familiarize the participants with the teaching environment, culture, and infrastructure at UAEU.
• Provide participating graduate students with a strong emerging pedagogical foundation upon which they can build and innovate across their teaching career.
• Enable the participants to acquire knowledge of teaching techniques, instructional technologies, and assessment methods.
• Share the most effective, evidence-based classroom practices in UAEU to facilitate effective and efficient teaching.
• Apply theoretical and practical knowledge about student learning, teaching, assessment, evaluation and curriculum design to your practice.