The Department of Education strives to prepare students to be leaders in the classroom, effective practitioners in their particular fields, and lifelong learners for their personal and professional growth.
To this end, the objectives of the Department of Education are to:

• Assist students to imbibe the history of education, the major philosophical movements within education, current legal and social issues, and the role of the teacher.
• Identify the cultures that exist in the schools and promote appreciation and understanding of a multicultural classroom.
• Strengthen the physical environment for learning and promote maximum pupil achievement, and provision for special needs of students with differential abilities.
• Adopt grouping and behavioural management strategies that promote students’ confidence in learning towards better achievement.
• Plan and implement lessons and units of instruction that reflect knowledge of human development, including the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor characteristics of the learner.
• Provide effective speaking and interpersonal communication skills’ model, and the use of appropriate non-verbal and verbal communication in individual, small group and whole class settings.
• Modify instructional methods to accommodate the needs of special learners.
• Encourage effective use of technology and media to enhance instruction.
• Apply the principles and the knowledge of research to develop, implement and evaluate appropriate instruction.
• Support student learning through collaboration with faculty, parents, community organizations and others.

B.Ed Information Technology Option

The objectives of the B.Ed in ICT are:

• To train students to develop computer-based educational courseware and instructional material to support teaching and learning in various schools and subject areas.
• To equip students with skills that will enable them to employ emerging educational and communication delivery technologies (including the internet) to promote technology enabled distributed and collaborative learning.
• To equip students with knowledge of current and emerging curriculum design and development issues as they relate to the use of computer and other educational technologies to support teaching and learning in the pre-tertiary school system.
• To train students to be Trainer of Trainers (TOT) or resource persons to train their colleagues to use ICT to teach their various subjects.
• To help increase general ICT literacy in pre-tertiary schools and the country at large
• To provide the necessary academic background for entrance into graduate degree programmes in ICT in education

The objectives of the B.Ed Management option are:

• To train teachers who will help improve the quality of teaching of management as a subject at the secondary school level
• To provide the student with a quality academic programme and with basic business skills in the field of management required for teaching at the second-cycle setting
• To prepare teachers with specialized skills and tools for effective management and who are able to impart such to their students
• To build a high degree of ethical and moral responsibility in them as teachers who will also impart such to students preparing for future careers in the management of organisations.
• To provide the necessary academic background for entrance into graduate degree programmes in business.

The objectives of the B.Ed Accounting option are:

• To train teachers who will help improve the quality of teaching accounting as a subject at the secondary school level
• To provide the student with a quality academic programme and with basic business skills in the field of accounting required for teaching at the second-cycle setting
• To equip teachers with specialized skills and tools in accounting and who are able to impart such to their students
• To build a high degree of ethical and moral responsibility in them as teachers who will also impart such to students preparing for future careers in the accounting profession.
• To provide the necessary academic background for entrance into graduate degree programmes in business.

The objectives of the B.Ed Social Studies option are:

• To develop and practice skills and approaches of teaching for learning in social studies.
• To appreciate more fully the significance of current issues and social institutions and their influence.
• To foster an awareness and encourage a critical evaluation of the historical, political and social features of modern societies with particular reference to Ghana
• To advance knowledge of current trends in social studies curriculum.
• To educate prospective teachers who will have a deep knowledge and practical teaching ability as to keep positively abreast with the rapid changes of society
• To provide the necessary academic background for entrance into graduate degree programmes in social studies education

The objectives of the B.Ed English Language option are:

• To provide students with effective speaking and inter-personal communication skills.
• To train graduates who will utilize pedagogical principles and content knowledge to teach English as a second language.
• To apply the principles and the knowledge of research to develop, implement and evaluate appropriate instructions.

The objectives of the B.Ed Study of Religions option are:

• To train teachers who will help improve quality – practice skills and approaches of teaching the faiths men live by.
• To appreciate more fully the lives of people who live in a religious pluralistic world.
• To build a high degree of ethical and moral responsibility in them as teachers who will also impart such to students preparing for the future.
• To inculcate in students the spirit of tolerance, appreciation and understanding for people who are divided because of what they believe in.
• To provide students the necessary background for entrance into graduate degree programmes in the study of religions as well as the study of Law.
• To prepare students to teach other religions without proselytizing.

The objectives of the B.Ed Mathematics option are:

• To equip students with requisite knowledge and skills that will make them competent to teach mathematics in schools and colleges.
• To provide foundation for further studies in Mathematics Education.
• To expose students to analytical thinking and general problem-solving

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