Course List

In this course participants will be exposed to specific social, economic, political, legal, and cultural factors which impact on schooling. Regional and global issues will also be considered. Participants will be engaged in discussion of current trends and issues in the respective areas and the associated opportunities or challenges presented by the issues.

This course is designed to help participants:

1.     Develop a frame of reference for pursuing courses in the management of learning in difficulty, particularly within the Caribbean context.
2.     Examine critically definitional issues regarding the learner in difficulty.
3.     Focus on factors that may contribute to learning difficulties for learners in the regular classrooms, particularly those without overt exceptionalities.
4.     Examine the needs of the learner in difficulty with reference to the factors enumerated.

This course will acquaint pre-service teachers with the multi-faceted nature of the Caribbean classrooms; sensitize them to the need for careful analysis of personal as well as professional experience; increase their powers of observation and ability to reflect on the nature of teaching; develop their ability to engage in oral and written evaluations of experience and observation.

The beginning teacher will explore the range of methods and procedures which can be used in teaching; demonstrate skills in unit and lesson planning; develop skills in teaching through team planning and in micro-teaching; reflect and refine methods of  instruction; demonstrate skills in oral and written evaluation of their peer’s teaching and their own teaching experiences.

This course is intended for students without previous teacher training providing opportunities to study key aspects of school life and to gain some initial teaching experience in their specialist fields.

This course seeks to sensitize participants to the needs and characteristics of adult learners and to examine the implications of these for teacher attitudes, qualities and methodologies

This is a 6-credt course –taught across 2 semesters. Semester 2 entails a practical component as well as submission of an action research.

This course is designed to aid in the understanding of the role of the teacher as a learner, researcher, self evaluator and reflective practitioner.  It provides an opportunity for students to apply their knowledge of the teaching learning process in implementing an innovative teaching experiment to address a problem in their classrooms, to reflect critically on the experience and to write a report which informs their future practice.