Four-Year B.Ed. Course Manual: Professional Development and Advocacy in PES-MD Year 4 Semester 2

The goal of this course is to expose student teachers to professional ethics and culturally competent practices; continued professional development, promotion/advocacy, core characteristics of the physically/artistically literate person (student teacher/learner).Also, the course is designed to facilitate knowledge and skills in organising events including community engagement/school activities (speech and prize giving day)  sports festivals, advocacy poster presentations, workshops and seminars, concerts, carols night, walima, etc. 

The Professional Development and Advocacy in PES-Music and Dance course focuses on professional ethics and culturally competent practices; continued professional development, promotion/advocacy, core characteristics of the artistically literate person (student teacher/learner). For music students, the course is designed to facilitate knowledge and skills in organising events such as concerts, carols night, walima, speech and prize giving days. Collaborating with their counterparts in PES, the course will also cover strategies for effective physical activity promotion including school-based physical activity interventions, behavioural approaches, environment, and policy influences and building effective partnerships. Student teachers from both PES and Music and Dance will teamwork to organize and implement the culminating event. Traditional games, music and dances will comprise the main ingredients of the culminating festival. This new course is envisaged to become a Pre-Congregation Event in our universities and colleges. Organization and management of this Pre-Congregation Event that will include sports / physical activity / music / and dance festival is a critical component of the course. Student teachers shall apply lifelong skills such as self-discipline, teamwork, leadership, goal setting, hard-work, emotional control, and resilience. In addition, student teachers will employ adaptions to support participants with SEN and foster inclusion and gender balance in the festival activities. The course will be delivered using group project presentation, practical activity involving implementation of the collaboratively planned festival and small group discussion. Before student teachers go on Internship, groups would be created and given worksheets that will enable them to use TPACK resources to facilitate their pre-planning activities during Internship. Assessment modes include group plan and strategies for the culminating festival which maps professional development and collaboration milestones. For both the theory and practice components of the course, student teachers will be taken through comprehensive experiences on pedagogical knowledge (PK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) on one hand and developing positive professional attitudes and values with regards to the teaching of physical activity, sports and dance including inclusion, cross-cutting issues (SEN, diversity, problem solving, financial literacy, digital literacy, open-mindedness, respect for others, etc.) as well as the core values of the NTECF: honesty, integrity, perseverance and grit, teamwork, excellence and citizenry. The strategies will ensure that all activities are respectful of every child’s right to education as well as ensure that all children can learn and benefit from education. The course will finally focus on the student teachers as team-members and team-players who collaborate to support learners.

The course is aimed at achieving the following NTS 1a, 2c,d,e,f, 3b,c,e,g,I,j,k,l,m, and NTECF p25 bullets 2,3,5,6,10,11,13, and 14 requirements.