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Christ the Teacher College of Education (CTCE) offers a 4-year Degree in the Bachelor in Education (B.Ed) that trains generalist teachers to teach both Primary and Junior High School pupils.

This program aims at achieving quality instruction necessary to meet contemporary teachers’ demands and expectations. This curriculum offers a new direction in training our basic school teachers, and ensuring that pupils receive quality education.

In addition to courses in Education, Practical Activities and General Studies, students will be expected to take at least seven foundation subjects.

  1.  English
  2.  Mathematics
  3.  Ghanaian Language and Culture
  4.  Integrated Science
  5.  Environmental and Social Studies
  6.  Visual Arts
  7. Information Communication Technology
  8.  Religious and Moral Studies.

 Technical Skills and French are options to be offered. Students taking these subjects would be exempted from some of the foundation subjects.

 
CONTENT OF PROGRAMME

 Key Features

The following are the key features of the 4-year Degree in the Bachelor in Education (B.Ed) programme:

  1. It is a 4-year semester programme, spanning eight semesters with teacher-trainees earning a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) Certificate.
  2. It enables teacher-trainees who graduate with a diploma to upgrade themselves to a B. Ed degree level at any relevant tertiary institution; or at CTCE a degree-awarding College we envision to be shortly.
  • It establishes a judicious balance between theoretical knowledge and practical teaching skills.
  1. It trains teachers to be facilitators of learning.
  2. It produces teachers who are creative and innovative researchers in the classroom and can solve problems through action research.
  3. The “Out” component of the programme has a duration of 32 weeks (two semesters) in their respective schools.
  • The programme is intended to support and monitor teacher-trainees’ performance at college, and during their teaching practice experience.

Content of curriculum

 The content of the curriculum heredescribes, what pertains to a 4-year Degree in the Bachelor in Education (B.Ed) programme. In developing the curriculum, care has been taken to avoid overloading students.  The foundation subjects selected are those currently being taught in the basic schools in Ghana. 

They are:

  1. English
  2.  Mathematics
  3.  Ghanaian Language and Culture
  4.  Integrated Science
  5.  Environmental and Social Studies
  6.  Information Communication Technology
  7.  Visual Arts
  8. Religious and moral Studies.

The Educational and Professional Studies Courses are designed to cater for the student’s professional needs.However, the General Studies Courses (Communication and Study Skills, HIV/AIDS, Education and Introduction to Information Technology) are geared towards the students’ personal development.

Though the programme is oriented towards the production of a generalist teacher some exemptions have been made to avoid overloading students. These are:

  1. Students offering French are exempted from Integrated Science
  2. Students offering Technical Skills are exempted from Environmental and Social Studies.