With the aim of reaching teaching excellence, the Directorate of Training and Development at the University of Zakho has started a teaching methods course on 4th of October 2015. Aiming to convey new innovative methods of teaching to the academic staff members of the University of Zakho and other universities and polytechnic university in the Kurdistan Region, the course will last for seven weeks. The directorate continues to provide courses which will lead to the enhancement of human potentials of the teaching staff at the university as its one of their major responsibilities.