
BEd Foundation Phase Teaching
Pretoria, South Africa
DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
The BEd (Foundation Phase Teaching) program entails the teaching of young children between 3 and 9 years. Students doing the program have a choice to specialize in Early Childhood Development (3 to 6 years) or Foundation Phase (Grades 1 to 3) fields.
Students who are compassionate, hardworking, and committed to the teaching profession excel in this program.
The BEd (Foundation Phase Teaching) degree program is accredited. Students completing this degree program possess diverse pedagogic skills to teach different learning areas (Home language, First additional language, Mathematics, and Life Skills) and differentiate the curriculum for access by learners in schools. Additionally, the program equips the student with unique skills and attributes to identify learning difficulties during formational stages of development and provide interventions for learning success.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available, please visit the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Year 1
Fundamental modules
- Academic information management
- Academic information management
- Literacies in education
- Literacies in education
- Literacies in education
- Literacies in education
- Academic orientation
Core modules
- Conversational Competence: Sepedi
- Conversational Competence: Setswana
- Conversational Competence: IsiZulu
- Professional practice
- Literacy practices: English
- Geletterheidspraktyke: Afrikaans
- Foundation phase mathematics
- Arts and Culture
- Arts and Culture
- Human movement studies
- Early childhood development studies
- Education
- Education
Year 2
- Literacy practices: English
- Geletterdheidspraktyke: Afrikaans
- Foundation phase mathematics
- Foundation phase mathematics
- Health and Safety
- Learning support
- Life skills program
- Education
- Education
- Teaching practice
Year 3
- Literacy practices: English
- Geletterdheidspraktyke: Afrikaans
- Classroom literacies
- Methodology of Learning Support
- Natural science and technology
- Education
- Education
- Teaching practice
Final Year
Fundamental modules
- Professional practice
Core modules
- Professional practice
- Literacy Practices
- Literacy practices: English
- Learning support
- Research project
- Research project
- Early childhood development studies
- Teaching practice
- Teaching practice
Program Outcome
Total Credits: 680