BACHELOR OF EDUCATION
Course Descriptions
BED 5101 History of Education
The course includes: Education in the continent: ancient period-Arayan education, Hindu education and Buddha education; Islam and Education: Education in the Quran and Hadith; Education during the period of Khelaphat; Higher education institutes: Baitul Hikmah, Nizamia University, Cardova University, Al-Azhar University; the libraries; Education in the Muslim period in India: Mamluk Dynesty, Khalzi and Tughlak Dynesty; Education in the Mughal period; education during British period; Education after 1947: Pakistan period, Bangladesh period till today; Contributions of the Educational Philosophers: Socratis, Aristotle, Plato, Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Froebel, Herbart, Montessory, Dewey, Al-Gazzali, Ibne Rushd, Al-Farabi, Ibne-Khaldun, Bidyasagar, Rabindra Nath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Sir Syed Ahmad, Begum Rokeya and Nawab Abdul Latif.
BED 5102 Educational Psychology & Guidance
Meaning of Psychology, history, definition and subject-matter of Psychology, Branches of Psycho-logy, Importance of Psychology in different stages and fields of life, Motivation, cycle of motivation, social & biological motivation, attention, nature, characteristic and conditions of attention, learning, trial & error, theory of learning, laws of learning, conditioned reflex theory, Gestalt theory, Skinner's instrumental conditioning, theory of cognitive development of Jean Piaget heredity and environment, memory and forgetting, intelligence, theories of intelligence measurement of intelligence.
BED 5103 Principles of Education
The aim of the course is to enable students to: (a) define education and related terms of education and its specific objectives (in context of Bangladesh system of Education); (b) identify the principles of school management and administration, the relation between school and home and school and society; (c) acquire a clear concept of Bangladesh education system: (d) describe the process of developing and administering the curriculum and syllabus of Bangladesh Education; (e) distinguish between curricular and co-curricular activities. In addition to this, the students will be able to develop, administer and evaluate co-curricular activities; and (f) identify the school-related problems and explore the reasons of those problems on their own.
BED 5104 Education and National Development
This course has been designed to enable students to acquire know-ledge and understanding all about education and the relationship between education and development. The course deals with: Characteristics of developed and developing countries, problems in development in developing countries, ways and means of education, ways and means of development, education system of Bangladesh, role of formal, informal and non-formal education in development, life-oriented education, education and life skill, human resource development, food and nutrition, nutrition and manpower development, population education, Universal Primary Education, literacy in Bangladesh, compulsory primary education, role of literacy in national development.
BED 5105 Evaluation and Measurement of Education
The course is designed to introduce the students to understanding the meaning of tests, measurement and evaluation including elementary statistics. The student will be acquainted with both theoretical and practical aspect of educational measurement and evaluation and elementary statistics. On completion of this course, it is expected that the students will be able to prepare various measuring students and evaluate the students' outcome of their education. They will be able to apply their knowledge of elementary statistics in analysis and interpreting the scores of different types.
BED 5106 Methods of Teaching and Classroom Management
The course includes: Teaching and learning, duties, responsibilities and characteristics of an ideal teacher, Method of Teaching, Significance and characteristics of Methods, Maxims of good Methods: Contributions of the philosophers to the field of Methodology: Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Herbart, Froebel, Montessory and Dewey; Different types of Methods, Its discussions, exercise and application: Lecture discussion and quation and answer method, project method, Heuristic method, Inductive and Deductive methods, analytical and synthetical methods, supervised study, assignment method, programmed instruction, Team Teaching, Field Trip and Excursion, Kinder Garten, Montessory method, Daltan, Winetka and Morisson plan, Batavia method, Decrotly System, Open Air method, Block Teaching, IMPACT method, Cluster Training. Distance Education and Modular method; Audio-visual Teaching: Core of Experience, Making, procurement and use of Teaching Aids; Classroom Management, Teaching environment, Classroom Organisation, Principles of promotions, Single room school management, Class-room discipline, Home work and its corrections; Lesson plans, Teaching Evaluation; Co-curricular Activities: their importance, plans and Executions.
BED 5107 Islam and Education
This course has been designed to enable the students: (a) to develop awareness of the content of Islam as a subject in the school curriculum; (b) to develop a clear understanding about religion and philosophy; (c) to develop an awareness about the explanation of Islam on the current thought and outlook and love for religion; (d) to acquire a first-hand knowledge about the principles of religion and then application in individual and social life; (e) to develop morality, character and sense of responsibility; and (f) to achieve the and techniques of teaching religious education with success.
BED 5108 Educational Research
This course is designed to provide a theoretical basis for conducting educational research and an understanding the clear description & research by purpose classified as fundamental, applied or action research and that of education research by method knows historical, description and experimental method with exempts, a description of resources and references materials including library resources for all educational studies, and designing and preparing data collection instrument: analyzing and interpreting date; reporting outcome of research and using manuals report writing.
BED 6301 Bengali
The course is designed for the students who have studied Bengali at Bachelor's level. Importance of learning mother-tongue; aim of teaching mother-tongue at the secondary level; origin and gradual development of Bengali; Curriculum and syllabus of Bengali; Acquiring skill in Bengali; Method of teaching Bengali; different aspects of teaching language; characteristics of Standard written and Standard colloquial forms of language and their exercise; Rules of spelling and preparing lesson plans. Besides, various aspects of evaluating students' knowledge acquired in this subject at the secondary level have been discussed in the course.
BED 6302 English
The course will be taught as an elective subject and it is designed with a view to introducing the students with the content-cum-method/practicum of English Language Teaching (ELT) and use of visual aids in Teaching English. The course intends to give the students a comprehensive back-ground information and techniques in teaching English with special reference to our secondary school curriculum. The course also includes training for students-teachers in various roles as observer, supervisor and coordinator. In addition to these, the course introduces basic knowledge in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) testing and evaluation, preparing lesson plans and their applications in the classroom.
BED 6303 Mathematics
This course intends to give the students comprehensive background information and techniques in teaching Mathematics especially at the secondary school level in Bangladesh. The course will enable a teacher to grasp fundamental concepts of the branches of Mathematics viz. Arithmetic, Algebra, Trigonometry and Geometry. It will also make him capable to understand better the ideas and concepts of the relevant chapters as designed for the secondary Mathematics curriculum. Above all, the methods of teaching Mathematics, ways and means of preparing lesson plans and their applications in the classroom will be taught through this course.
BED 6304 General Science
The course is designed to provide basic instruction for effective General Science (included Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Population Science) teaching at the secondary level. However, the main focus of the course is to allow the prospective teachers to learn methods, techniques and evaluation processes and practice them in teaching science especially through the integration of contents with methods and techniques. The ways and means of preparing lesson plans and its applications in the Micro-teaching/Simulation and in the actual classroom will also be discussed.
BED 6305 Social Science
The course provides a brief description of the structure of social science as a discipline, its nature and scope and the contributions it has made to human knowledge. The course deals with specific components of knowledge and behaviour patterns to be developed among the learners as well as to emphasize the role of the teacher in the teaching learning process. However, the main focus of the course is to allow the prospective teachers to learn methods, techniques and evaluation process, and practice them in teaching social science especially through integration of contents with methods and techniques. Appropriate content units have been chosen from the subject areas of sociology, economics, political science, history, geography and population education. Due emphasis will be given on the preparation as well as implementation of lesson plans for micro teaching simulation and also the actual classroom situation.
BED 6306 Geography
The course has been designed to introduce students to the essentials of physical geography, economic and cultural aspects of human activities in regional and spatial perspectives. Emphasis will be given on the concept of regional geography and the treatment of geography of Bangladesh. The focus of this course will be on culture, economy and society of the people of Bangladesh. This course will greatly assist students to understand and reach decisions about current world problems. Through this course attempt will be taken to arouse interest in instructional strategies, preparation of lesson plan, maps, charts, graphs etc. Special emphasis will be given on evaluation system used in teaching of geography.
BED 6307 History
The course will be taught as an elective subject. Through this course an attempt will be taken to provide knowledge to the trainee teachers about socio-economic, political and cultural history of Bangladesh from the earliest time to the present (2000). The course intends to give the students a comprehensive background information and techniques needed in teaching History in the secondary schools of Bangladesh. Special emphasis will be given on the methods of teaching History, ways and means of preparing lesson plans and their applications in the Micro teaching/Simulation as well as in the actual classroom situation.
BED 6308 Commerce
The course is an elective subject and will be offered to the students having commerce background in their Bachelor degree program. The course is designed to provide knowledge in commercial subjects as designed for our secondary level of education. The course intends to give the students a comprehensive background information and techniques in teaching commercial subjects specially at the secondary as well as higher secondary level of education. Special emphasis will be given on the subject matter and its applications in the Micro teaching/ Simulation and also in the actual classroom situation.
BED 7000 Practice Teaching
The aim of this course is to enable the students to learn and practice the art of teaching in the class-room situation. The program is divided into four parts: (a) 7000 A. Teaching School Subject-I (3 cr. hr.), and (b) 7000 B. Teaching School Subject-II (3 cr. hr.), (c) 7000 C. Reports on Class observation, School visit, and Co-curricular activities (3 cr. hr.), (d) 7000 D. Viva-voce on students teaching (3 cr. hr.). In the Teaching School Subjects I and II, the students will prepare lesson plan and teaching aids as their preparation for teaching. The teacher will approve the plan and teaching materials and give necessary advice for better presentation in the class-room.
Teachers will supervise the class and evaluate teaching of student teacher. In the assignment 7000 C the students will prepare a Report consisting of three parts: (a) Reports on class-room observation. In this stage the students will observe at least five classes of an experienced teacher and prepare a report, (b) In the second part the student has to prepare a Report on a school regarding establishment of a school, School Management and Rules and regulations of school etc. (c) In the third part of the report the student will prepare a plan to conduct some activities related to education. The student will submit the report for evaluation. (d) In the fourth part of Practice Teaching the students have to face a viva-voce examination on student teaching on the day of comprehensive examination.
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