Wednesday, April 16, 2014

HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN ENGLISH (2012 batch and 2013 batch only)

HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN ENGLISH

The following syllabus is designed to implement for the 3rd year (2012 batch and 2013 batch only) as they were recruited to follow HNDE course for three years. During the 3rd year first semester the students will learn the following three subjects and during the second semester they will undergo training in schools.

HNDE course is a  two year program in 2014. Therefore, it is ideal if the following subjects are included in the 2nd year 2nd Semester.

3rd Year -1st Semester Syllabus

PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION-  4 Credits ( 04 hrs )
1.       What is education?
1.1.    Western view of education
1.2.    Eastern ideas of education
1.3.    Aspects of education

2.       Education philosophers
2.1.    Plato-idealism
2.2.    Jean Jaques Rousseau-Naturalism
2.3.    Karl Marx-Marxism
2.4.    John Dewey-utilitarianism         
                                             
3.       Various educational approaches
3.1.    Teacher centered education    
3.2.    Society centered education
3.3.    Student centered education
3.4.    Development centered education

4.       Professionalism in teaching
4.1.    The nature of a profession
4.2.    Teacher responsibilities and liabilities
4.3.    Teacher ethics
4.4.    Code of ethics for the teaching profession

5.       The history of the development of education in Sri Lanka
5.1.    Education in colonial period
5.2.    Education after independence
5.3.    National  goals in education
5.4.    Primary and secondary curriculum

6.       Socialization
6.1.    Characteristic of Socialization
6.2.    Agencies of Socialization: Family, Peer group and School
6.3.    Techniques of Socialization: Imitation, Demonstration and Punishment or Rewarding



EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT- 4 Credits (04 hrs)
1.       The importance of evaluation, for;
1.1   Teachers
1.2   Students
1.3   Educational managers
1.4   Policy makers
1.5   Researchers
1.6   School
1.7   Physical measurement
        1.8 Mental measurement


2.       Basic concepts of evaluation
2.1   Assessment
2.2   Tests
2.3   Measurement
2.4   Evaluation

3.        Types of evaluation procedures
3.1   Placement evaluation
3.2   Formative evaluation
3.3   Diagnostic evaluation
3.4   Summative evaluation

4.        Objectives for measuring learning outcomes
4.1   Educational goals, general objectives and specific objectives
4.2   Classification of educational objectives
4.3   Bloom’s classification
4.4   Changes in emphasis
4.5    Classification of cognitive domain(Bloom)

5.       Various achievement test
5.1 written test
5.2   oral test
5.3   selection type test
       5.4 Basic characteristic of measuring tools
             Validity
             Reliability
             Practicability


6.       Organizing scores
6.1   Uses of scores
6.2    Preparation of the frequency distribution
6.3    Mode / mean
6.4   Range/ standard deviation
6.5 Histogram / frequency polygon
6.6 Normal curve & characteristic
4.3 Core – relation -core – efficient
4.4 Spears man rank order - core-relation






EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY-  4 Credits ( 04 hrs )

1.       Education psychology
1.1   What is psychology
1.2   Branches of psychology
1.3   The nature of education psychology
1.4   Uses of education psychology to the teacher

2.       Personal development
2.1   Different aspects of personal development
2.2   Factors that influence personal development
2.3   The environment
2.4   Principles of personal development
2.5   Stages of personal development

3.       Intellectual development
3.1   Piaget’s theory of the development of intelligence
3.2   Stages of development of intelligence
3.3   Memory and stages of memory
3.4   Cognitive developments
3.5   Theories of intelligence
3.6   Emotional intelligence

4.       Learning
4.1   Basic characteristics of learning
4.2   Definitions of learning
4.3   Factors affecting learning
4.4   Principles of learning

5.       Children with special needs
5.1   Classification of students with special needs
5.2   Types of physical challenges
5.3   Mentally challenged students
5.4   Factors that influence presence of aggressive behavior or isolate behavior
5.5   Genius or gifted children

6.       Educational guidance and counseling
6.1   Definition of the concept of guidance and counseling
6.2   Educational guidance and counseling
6.3   Theories in counseling
6.4   Counseling techniques
6.5   Qualities of the counselor

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