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Programme Overview

The Bachelor of Education (Junior High School Education) programme has been designed to help teacher-trainees acquire the necessary skills to provide more authentic pedagogical contexts and activities that would help junior high school pupils learn how to learn and become independent lifelong learners.

The rationale of the Bachelor of Education (Junior High School Education) programme is also to develop competent teachers who will be able to focus their attention on the processes and critical decisions involved in teaching, fluency in employing a range of teaching strategies, and development of subject knowledge. In keeping with global trends and the demand for more learner-centred approaches to teaching, coupled with the significant challenges most Ghanaian basic school pupils face in the acquisition of functional literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills, this rationale becomes very significant.

JHS courses

  • Social Studies/Ghanaian Language
  • Social Studies/RME
  • Ghanaian Language/Social Studies
  • Ghanaian Language/RME.
  • Agric/ICT
  • Visual Arts/ICT

 

Programme Goals & Objectives

Goals

The programme aims to train pre-service teachers to:

  • Become professional teachers who are well-equipped with knowledge, pedagogical skills and the disposition to learn and guide their pupils to meet their learning needs such as the development of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values.
  • Have a clear grasp of the intended outcomes of their teaching activities to enable them to assess learning and provide equal opportunity to all pupils.
  • Promote close working relationship between Colleges of Education/University and local schools through the Supported Teaching in Schools, to expose teacher-trainees to hands-on experience.

Objectives

The program primarily seeks to train “specialist” teachers for the junior high school level in the following subject areas: English Language, Mathematics, Science, French, Vocational Skills Religious and Moral Education, Social Studies, ICT, Agricultural Science, and Ghanaian Language.

The curriculum is intended to:

  • Produce generalist teachers, capable of teaching all subjects at the Primary and JHS levels.
  • Produce teachers who have a clear grasp of the intended outcomes of their teaching activities, and who are skilled in monitoring, diagnosing and appropriately providing equal opportunity to all pupils.
  • Promote close working relationship between Colleges of Education and local schools through the “Out” component of the programme, in which students will acquire practical, hands-on skills in teaching Primary and Junior High School pupils.
  • Produce generalist and science teachers after four years of inception capable of teaching individual subjects at the Junior High School levels.