EDU1-1101             Tertiary Learning Skills           

This course provides students with tertiary learning through a range of learning skills acquisition. It equips students to effectively use facilities available for research and study purposes to improve their inter-personal academic skills, which includes critical thinking, listening, speaking, reading, writing and the ability to extract needed information from available resource materials/centres. This course will also provide students with the understanding of the significance of information technology in the societies and offers computing skills to develop confidence in the use of computers for their own learning.

EDU1-1102             Foundation Christian Studies 1           

This course is focused on salvation history. It supports students to acquire sufficient biblical knowledge to enrich and nurture their faith and also enables them to teach Christian Religious Education in schools.

EDU1-1103             Foundation Language & Literacy           

This course is designed to raise awareness about children’s attainment of first language unconsciously. Initial language starts in children’s vernacular before or at elementary education and extends to lower primary where bridging to English occurs. The course will also access trainee teachers the collection of different strategies, techniques and activities in the classrooms where literacy backgrounds and abilities are demonstrated. The language bridging approaches will also be enhanced to meet the needs of the children as they advance further in education.

EDU1-1104             Foundation Mathematics

This course is a foundation mathematics course aimed at establishing and consolidating students’ background knowledge in order to provide essential mathematics required for classroom teaching. The course will focus in areas of basic skills, problem solving, investigations and spatial relationships.           

EDU1-1205             Beginning Teaching

This course has two major components. The first part of the course introduces to the students the basic pre-instructional and instructional skills important to effective teaching and learning. It seeks to foster in students an informed approach and selection of appropriate skills needed to organize the learning, formulation of behavioral objectives, identifying the main parts of a lesson and employment of appropriate skills to facilitate learning.

The second component introduces to students the various teaching strategies employed in teaching and learning situations. It provides information and guidance to integrate appropriate concepts and skills studied above and the strategies such as teacher centered, student centered individualized teaching, role play, guided discovery and other advanced strategies such as exploration, advanced questioning and advanced explanation in order to make teaching and learning reflective and effective.

EDU1-1206             Foundation Science

The course provides students with fundamental concepts of science which supports teaching and learning in primary schools. It aims to develop appropriate scientific knowledge, skills and attitudes to effectively facilitate and implement primary science curriculum. Required areas of study are working scientifically, living things, science in the home and earth and beyond.

EDU1-1207             Foundation Arts

This course provides students with basic knowledge and skills involved in the three streams of Arts (Visual arts, Performing Arts and Music). The course nurtures the development of positive attitudes to the appreciation of arts and supports students to integrate cultural values in to teaching and learning in Primary classrooms.

EDU1-1208             Foundation Christian Studies 2

This course enables students to integrate biblical knowledge gained in Christian Studies 1 with Lutheran Doctrines such as the Trinity, the Holy Sacraments, sin and Justification by faith so that they establish stronger foundation for Lutheran doctrinal practices.

The course will also enable the student teachers to employ the knowledge, skills and attitudes attained to their teaching and learning environment in Primary Schools.