Bachelor of Education in Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching
Education, Training and Development - Schooling
Purpose and Rationale
Purpose:
The Bachelor of Education: Senior Phase and FET Teaching provides a well-rounded education that equips learners with the required subject content knowledge base, educational theory, and methodology. Its purpose is therefore to develop qualified classroom teachers who can demonstrate focused knowledge and skills in teaching Senior Phase and FET learners. The qualification is focused on developing practical competence, reflexively grounded in educational theory.
The qualification seeks to develop teachers who are able to:
- Organize systematic learning based on knowledge of their subject, learners, and the process of learning
- Communicate effectively and employ a range of teaching strategies which they can justify
- Be committed to professional development and reflection
Through the facilitation of learning, the various modules in this qualification ensure that learners obtain sound subject knowledge, understand teaching and learning, communicate and mediate learning effectively, develop literacy, numeracy, and Information Technology (IT) skills, use resources to design learning programs, understand and manage diverse classrooms, assess learners reliably, display positive work ethics and values, and reflect on their own practice critically and constructively.
Upon qualifying, learners will be able to:
- Demonstrate integrated and detailed knowledge regarding the subjects they will be teaching
- Show an understanding of diversity in the South African context to teach their subjects effectively
- Use available resources appropriately to plan and design suitable learning programs
- Manage classrooms effectively across diverse contexts to ensure a conducive learning environment
- Assess learners using reliable and varied ways, and use assessment results to improve teaching and learning
- Display positive work ethics, appropriate values, and conduct to benefit, enhance, and develop the teaching profession
Rationale:
The Bachelor of Education in Senior Phase (SP) and Further Education and Training (FET) aims to provide a relevant and contemporary learning program in South Africa, where learners from diverse backgrounds are equipped to adapt to teaching in the Senior and FET phases in diverse contexts. The stakeholder needs are reflected in the eleven basic competences of a teacher (as gazetted in the Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education Qualifications, July 2011), and it is believed that this qualification will help cultivate prospective teachers to encompass these competences.
Outcomes
- Demonstrate integrated and detailed knowledge regarding the subjects they will be teaching.
- Show an understanding of diversity in the South African context in order to teach their subject(s), how to select, determine the sequence and pace content in accordance with both subject and learner needs.
- Using available resources appropriately, for planning and designing suitable learning programmes.
- Ability to manage classrooms effectively across diverse contexts in order to ensure a conducive learning environment.
- Assessing learners using reliable and varied ways, as well as using the results of the assessments to improve teaching and learning.
- Display positive work ethics, appropriate values and conduct in a manner that benefits, enhances and develops the teaching profession.
Assessment Criteria
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit-Level Outcome 1:
- Understand knowledge, principles, methods, and procedures relevant to the phase, subject discipline, or practice.
- Evaluate and apply key terms, concepts, facts, principles, rules, and theories of the specialisations involved.
- Interpret learning programmes, design original learning programmes, and identify requirements for a specific context of learning.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit-Level Outcome 2:
- Demonstrate understanding of who learners are and how they learn.
- Select, sequence, and pace learning in a sensitive manner to the needs of both the subject and the learners.
- Mediate learning in a way that is sensitive to diverse needs, including those with barriers to learning.
- Develop a supportive and empowering environment for learners and fellow educators.
- Act upon decisions in a professional, ethical, and moral manner.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit-Level Outcome 3:
- Demonstrate knowledge of strategies and resources appropriate for teaching in a South African context.
- Select and prepare suitable textual and visual resources for learning.
- Select different approaches to teaching and use them appropriately for learners and the context.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit-Level Outcome 4:
- Manage learning in the classroom.
- Efficiently carry out classroom administrative duties.
- Display participation in school decision-making structures.
- Demonstrate competence in communicating effectively to mediate learning.
- Construct learning environments that are contextualised and inspirational.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit-Level Outcome 5:
- Integrate assessment into the teaching and learning process.
- Provide helpful feedback to learners.
- Design and manage both formative and summative assessment appropriate to the level and purpose of learning.
- Interpret assessment results to improve learning programmes.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit-Level Outcome 6:
- Practice and promote a critical, committed, and ethical attitude towards developing respect and responsibility towards others.
- Identify, analyze, evaluate, reflect on, and address complex learning and/or social problems.
- Align teaching and learning needs in learner and self-directed manners in unfamiliar and variable contexts.
Integrated Assessment:
- Understand assessment as central to the learning and teaching process.
- Provide formative and summative assessment opportunities.
- Implement holistic, integrated assessment aligned with the overall purpose of the qualification.
- Encourage integration within modules, between modules, and across the qualification through teaching practice.
- School-based Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) is essential, including supervised and assessed teaching practice over the four-year duration of the Degree.
Qualification Details
- Type
- National First Degree
- NQF Level
- 07
- Min. Credits
- 480
- SAQA Source
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