Department Introduction
Department of Educational Development is one of the pioneer departments of the University of Baltistan, Skardu. The department aims to develop exemplary teachers, teacher educators, educational managers and leaders, equipped with contextually relevant knowledge, skills, and scholarship in the areas of education and educational development.
Vision
Education for life with human dignity, civic responsibility and economic prosperity!
Mission
To produce dynamic educators with capabilities of change management through learning from life and for life, who can serve in educational institutions to ensure quality of teaching and learning.
Goals
- Provide well-defined learning opportunities through research and innovative approaches;
- Create hope and enthusiasm in learners for academic excellence;
- Develop pedagogical leaders and reflective practitioners; and change agents
- Expand horizons of learning from both inside and outside classroom activities.
Objectives
- Promote ‘transformative and multidisciplinary teaching-learning practices;
- Initiate, encourage, and facilitate innovation and research in education;
- Develop standardized protocols for all academic processes and practices;
- Educate prospective teachers about resources development for learning; and
- Integrate ICT in teaching and learning
Program Vision
Fostering the school reforms through development of teacher’s capabilities by dissemination of knowledge and discovery
Program Mission
Work for producing effective pedagogical leaders, reflective practitioners who will work as change agent in schools as well as in the society
Program goals
- Producing Innovative competent individuals who will work for educational change.
- Helping and supporting students for professional and academic excellency
- Equip students with all abilities and skills to bring educational reforms
Program Objectives
- Ensure need based and innovative teaching-learning approaches ’
- Provide research and projective facilities in education
- Foster academic progressed through improved content knowledge skills.
- Develop pedagogical and managerial skills among the students
- To educate prospective teachers about learning resources generation
- Ensure integration of ICT in Classroom
Develop sense of exploration and investigation among prospective teachers
Program/ Degree B.S Education , B Ed honors Elementry
Eligibility Criteria
- FA/F.Sc / A level or equivalent with minimum 2nd
Duration: |
4 years |
Semester Duration: |
16-18 weeks |
Semesters: |
8 |
Course Load Per Semester: |
15-18 Credit Hours |
Number of Courses per semester: |
5-6 (not more than 3 lab/ practical courses) |
Program requirements
The HEC prescribed curricula are followed in these programs. We would recommend the nomenclature for the Four-year B.Ed. program as “BS Education”. The following are the key components of the B.Ed. (Elementary) and BS Education/B.Ed. (Hon.) programs.
- Compulsory Courses : 19
- Professional Courses : 51
- Foundation Courses : 24
- Content Courses : 26
- Teaching Practice : 15
Total Credit Hours : 135
For B.Ed. (Elementary), which is offered after completion of ADE, the students spend four semesters in the ADE program and come to the university for another four semesters to get the B.Ed. (Elementary) degree.
Semester I
S# |
Courses |
Credit Hours |
Nature of course |
Type of course |
Remarks
|
|
1 |
Functional English-1 |
03 |
Theoretical |
Compulsory |
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2 |
Islamic studies/ Ethics |
02 |
Theoretical |
Compulsory |
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3 |
Child Development |
3 |
Theoretical |
Foundation |
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4 |
Urdu |
3 |
Theoretical |
Content |
|
|
5 |
General Science |
3 |
Theoretical |
Content |
|
|
6 |
General method of teaching |
3 |
Theoretical |
Foundation |
|
|
|
Total |
17 |
|
|
|
|
Semester II
S# |
Courses |
Credit Hours |
Nature of course |
Type of course |
Remarks |
1 |
English II Communication Skills |
03 |
Theoretical |
Compulsory |
|
2 |
Computer Literacy |
03 |
Theoretical |
Compulsory |
|
3 |
Classroom management |
03 |
Theoretical
|
Foundation |
|
4 |
General mathematics |
O3 |
Theoretical |
Compulsory |
|
5 |
Pakistan Studies |
02 |
Theoretical
|
Compulsory |
|
6 |
Method of Teaching Islamic studies |
03
|
Theoretical
|
Professional |
|
|
|
17 |
|
|
|
Semester III
S# |
Courses |
Credit Hours |
Nature of course |
Type of Course |
Remarks |
1 |
Teaching Literacy Skills |
03 |
Theoretical |
Professional |
|
2 |
Art, Craft and Calligraphy |
03 |
Theoretical |
Content |
|
3
|
Teaching of Urdu |
03 |
Theoretical |
Professional |
|
4 |
Teaching of General science |
03 |
Theoretical
|
Professional |
|
5 |
Instructional and communication technology(ICT) In Education |
O2 |
Theoretical |
Professional |
|
5 |
Teaching Practice ( Short Term) |
03 |
Field Based
|
Professional |
|
|
|
17 |
|
|
|
Semester IV
S# |
Courses |
Credit Hours |
Nature of course |
Type of course |
Remarks |
1 |
Classroom assessment |
03 |
Theoretical |
Foundation |
|
2 |
Teaching of English |
03 |
Theoretical |
Professional |
|
3 |
Teaching Of mathematics |
03 |
Theoretical
|
Professional |
|
4 |
School Community and Teacher |
O3 |
Theoretical |
Foundation |
|
5 |
Teaching of Social Studies |
02 |
Theoretical
|
Professional |
|
6 |
Teaching Practice (Short term) |
03
|
Field Based
|
Professional |
|
|
|
17 |
|
|
|
Semester V
S# |
Courses |
Credit Hours |
Nature of course |
Type of course |
|
||
1 |
English III Technical writing and presentation skills |
03 |
Theoretical |
Compulsory |
|
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2 |
Foundations of education |
03 |
Theoretical |
Foundation |
|
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3 |
Content Course –I (from selected discipline –I) |
03 |
Theoretical |
Content |
|||
4 |
Content Course –I (from selected discipline –II) |
03
|
Theoretical |
Content |
|
||
5 |
Curriculum Development |
03 |
Theoretical |
Foundation |
|
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6 |
Educational psychology |
03 |
Theoretical |
Foundation |
|
||
|
Total |
18 |
|
|
|
||
Semester VI
S# |
Courses |
Credit Hours |
Nature of course |
Type of course |
|
||
1 |
Contemporary Issues and Trends in education |
03 |
Theoretical |
Professional |
|
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2 |
Comparative education |
03 |
Theoretical |
Professional |
|
||
3 |
Content Course –II (from selected discipline –I) |
03 |
Theoretical |
Content |
|||
4 |
Content Course –II (from selected discipline –II) |
03
|
Theoretical |
Content |
|
||
5 |
Introduction to Guidance and Counselling |
03 |
Theoretical |
Professional |
|
||
|
Total |
15 |
|
|
|
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Semester VII
S# |
Courses |
Credit Hours |
Nature of course |
Type of course |
|
||
1 |
Research methods in Education |
03 |
Theoretical |
Professional |
|
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2 |
Content Course III(from selected discipline –I) |
03 |
Theoretical |
Content |
|
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3 |
Content Course -III(from selected discipline –II) |
03
|
Theoretical |
Content |
|||
4 |
Pedagogy-1 Methods of teaching related to specialization -I |
03 |
Theoretical |
Professional |
|
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5 |
Pedagogy-1 Methods of teaching related to specialization -II |
03 |
Theoretical |
Professional |
|
||
6 |
Teaching practice ( Short Term) |
03 |
Field Based |
Professional |
|
||
|
Total |
18 |
|
|
|
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Semester VIII
S# |
Courses |
Credit Hours |
Nature of course |
Type of course |
|
||
1 |
School Management |
03 |
Theoretical |
Professional |
|
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2 |
Test Development and Evaluation |
03 |
Theoretical |
Professional |
|
||
3 |
Teaching practice ( Long term) |
06 |
Field Based |
Professional |
|||
4 |
Research project |
03 |
Research |
Professional |
|
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|
Total |
15 |
|
|
|
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Total Credit hours 134