Second Year Syllabus Department of Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) National University BD (NU BD)

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Syllabus for Four Year(8 Semester) B.Ed. Honours Integrated Course Subject: Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) Session: 2013-2014

Second Year

Paper Code		Paper Title	Marks.	Credits
		Third Semester
220301		ICT in Education	100	4
220303		Educational Psychology and Guidance	100	4
Elective Courses (Students will choose three courses from any area of the following Five areas.)
Area-I:
220305		Bangla Paper-I	100×3 =300	3×4 =22
220307		English Paper-I
220309		ICT Education Paper-I
Area-II:
220311		Economics Paper-I	100×3 =300	3×4 =22
220313		Political Science Paper-I
220315		Sociology Paper-I
220317		Geography and Environment Paper-I
220319		History Paper-I Or Islamic History and Culture Paper-I
220321
220309		ICT Education Paper-I
Area-III:
220323		Physics Paper-I	100×3 =300	3×4 =22
220325		Chemistry Paper-I
220327		Geography and Environment Paper-I
220329		Mathematics Paper-I
220331		Botany Paper-I
220333		Zoology Paper-I
220335		Statistics Paper-I
220309		ICT Education Paper-I
Area-IV:
220337	Accounting Paper-I		100×3 =300	3×4 =22
220339	Management Paper-I
220341	Marketing Paper-I
220343	Finance and Banking Paper-I
220309	ICT Education Paper-I
Area-V:
220345	Information Science and Library Management Paper-I		100×3 =300	3×4 =22
220347	Home Economics Paper-I
220309	ICT Education Paper-I
	Total =		500	20

	Fourth Semester
220349	Organization and Management of Educational Institutions	100	4
220351	Gender Education	100	4
Elective Courses (Students will choose three courses from any area of the following Five areas.)
Area-I: 100 4
220353	Bangla Paper-II	100×3 =300	3×4 =22
220355	English Paper-II
220357	ICT Education Paper-II
Area-II:
220359	Economics Paper-II	100×3 =300	3×4 =22
220361	Political Science Paper-II
220363	Sociology Paper-II
220365	Geography and Environment Paper-II
220367	History Paper-II Or Islamic History and Culture Paper-II
220369
220357	ICT Education Paper-II
Area-III:
220371	Physics Paper-II	100×3 =300	3×4 =22
220373	Chemistry Paper-II
220375	Geography and Environment Paper-II
220377	Mathematics Paper-II
220379	Botany Paper-II
220381	Zoology Paper-II
220383	Statistics Paper-II
220357	ICT Education Paper-II
Area-IV:
220385	Accounting Paper-II	100×3 =300	3×4 =22
220387	Management Paper-II
220389	Marketing Paper-II
220391	Finance and Banking Paper-II
220357	ICT Education Paper-II
Area-V:
220393	Information Science and Library Management Paper-II	100×3 =300	3×4 =22
220395	Home Economics Paper-II
220357	ICT Education Paper-II
	Comprehensive Viva (Satisfactory/non-satistactory)
	Total =	500	20
	Grand Total=	1000	40

Detalied Syllabus Third Semester 

Course Code	220301	Marks: 100	Credits: 4	Class Hours: 60
Course Title:	ICT in Education

1.Description of the course

2.Objectives of the Course

3.Contents

Unit: one: Concept, meaning and nature of ICT in Education

Unit: Two:Importance of ICT in Education: 

1.Learning

2.Teaching

3.Education e-Services (e.g. SMS/online result, admission, Edu Boards’ services, etc.) 

4.Administration/Automation

5.Research and Development (RnD)

Unit: Three Changes in Education through ICTs reference to Curriculum, Instructional Design, Role of Teacher, Methods of Teaching, ICT-Pedagogy Integration, Classroom Environment, Evaluation procedure, Educational management.

Challenges in integrating Information & Communication Technology in school education of Bangladesh.

Unit:  Four Recent ICT in Education initiatives in Bangladesh:

1.Multimedia Classroom (Objective, importance, changes, etc.)

2.Planning of Digital Content

3.Introduction of Teachers’ Portal (Shikkhok Batayon)

4.Education in Television

5.Others

Comparative analysis of ICT in Education: Bangladesh and other developing countries

Unit: Five Opportunities: 

1.E-Learning/online learning (BoU, DU, TTCs, etc.)

2.E-Conferencing

3.Virtual Classroom

4.Virtual University

5.Education TV

6.Others

Policies and strategies for ICT in Education in Bangladesh 

1.ICT in Education Master Plan

2.National Education Policy 2011 (ICT in Education parts)

3.National ICT Policy 2009 (Education parts)

4.Others

Unit: Six Education Tools:

1.Application of MS-Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access for educational uses

1. MS Word: Prepare question paper, Class routine, Bio-Data/Resume, Meeting Resolution, assignment, Article

2. MS Excel: Prepare tabulation sheet of Total Average, Max and Min number, Sort,GPA and grade using formula, graph and chart, school budget

3. MS Power point: Prepare subject base Digital Content using Image, animation,video, smart art 

2.E-book

3.Educational Blog/portal

4.Google Drive

5.Moodle

6.Social Networking (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, etc.)

7.YouTube

8.Skype 

9.others

Unit: Seven Legal & Ethical issues:  

10.Managing student’s access

11.Gender equity 

12.Reduce Digital Divide

13.Safety and Security 

Course Code	220303	Marks: 100	Credits: 4	Class Hours: 60
Course Title:	Educational Psychology and Guidance

1.Course Description

This course is designed to assist students and respective teachers to build up insights in to learner’s behavior in real life situation. It covers concepts, principles and aims of psychology and educational psychology, influence of heredity and environment of family on learning, influence of motivation, intelligence, and personality on learning. It also covers classroom discipline, learning theories, material and methods, creativity and guidance on education.

2.Course Objectives Objectives of this course ate to-

a)help learners to understand and realize the need of educational psychology in their real life and build up their career in future

b)understand why and how they learn, and how their learning can be enhanced

c)understand them to familiar with some key terms of Education Psychology, and practice it positively in life

d)help them spot out exceptional learners and be aware of how to educate them

e)facilitate them identifying creative learners and understand how to foster creativity

f)assist them how to take help counselor and how guidance can be build up their career.

3.Course Contents

Unit 1: Basic terms and concepts of psychology and Educational Psychology

a)Concept, nature, scope and branches of Psychology

b)Concept, nature, scope and branches of Educational Psychology

c)Aims and objectives of Educational Psychology

d)Focal areas, importance and needs of Educational Psychology

e)Educational Psychology in decision making 

f)Methods of Educational Psychology

Unit 2: Heredity & Environment 

a)Concepts of Heredity and Environment

b)Nature of Heredity-Zane, chromosome,  and cell division

c)Impact of heredity and environment in person’s development

d)Heredity and environment in learning and education

Unit 3: Adolescence

a)Concept of adolescence-Physical, mental, social and emotional development of adolescence

b)Problem and needs of adolescence, and its remedies

Unit 4: Learning Theories

a)Concept and nature of learning

b)Learning theories-Connectionism(E.L.Thorndike),Classical Conditioning (Pavlov),Operant Conditioning (B.F.Skinner), Constructivism (Vigotosky), and its application to classroom learning

c)Insightful Learning theories and their application

d)J.S Bruner’s  and Piaget’s theory of Cognitive Development

e)Styles of Learning

Unit 5: Motivation, Emotion and Attention in Learning

a)Concepts of motivation, its characteristics, and motivation cycle

b)Characteristics of motivated behavior, Motivation techniques in teaching

c)Concept, nature, characteristics and types of emotion

d)Influence of anxiety/emotion on learning, positive use of emotion( by teachers)

e)Concepts of attention, its characteristics,

f)Causes/conditions of attention, 

g)Creating attention strategies among learners

Unit 6: Personality and 

a)Concept and elements of personality

b)Measurement of personality, Personality and education

Unit 7: Intelligence

a)Concept and theory of intelligence

b)Measurement of intelligences –Scales and importance in education, Individual and group differences in Intelligence

c)H.Gardners theory of intelligence(MIT)

d)Gender differences in intellectual functioning

Unit 8: Special Learners

a)Defining exceptional learners, Types

b)Concept of Juvenile Delinquency, Causes and remedies

c)Education for exceptional/special children, and guidelines for teaching

d)Concept of creativity, characteristics of creative person, way of/role of teacher foster creativity

e)Autism

Unit 9: Guidance and Counseling

a)Concept and types of  guidance

b)Principles of guidance, needs of guidance in education/for learners

c)Concept and types of counseling

d)Needs and importance of Guidance and Counseling in educational arena

e)Qualifications and qualities of counselor, techniques of counseling

4. Instructional Strategies

Lecture (using multi-media), Participatory approaches (Discussion, Question-Answer, group work, Observation, Debate, presentation, Field trip).

5. Assignment/action research and class percentage

Students will submit assignment/action research on due date based on contents by the instruction of their relevant teacher. Assignment and class percentage belongs to 10 marks.

6.Evaluation

a)Internal Examinations 15+15=30

a)External Examination=60

b)Assignment/action research and class percentage, Performance =10

Course Code	220307	Marks: 100	Credits: 4	Class Hours: 60
Course Title:	English Paper-I

Course Content   

Course description

This course is for the students who will choose English as one of the two teaching subjects (TS). This course aims at preparing learners to specialize in language education. They will be familiar with the varieties of methods and approaches of teaching and learning of second and foreign language. 

 

Course objectives

It is expected the course will prepare students 

a)develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing  at advanced level 

b)learn and apply communicative grammar in context

c)experience and apply language and jargons required to work as English language professionals 

d)study and practise different methods and approaches of teaching and learning of English as a foreign or second  language

e)conduct educational research

Unit 1 Developing four skills

a) English for the Teacher: A Language Development Course by Mary Spratt. Published from Cambridge University Press, UK in 1994 (first published) 

Unit 2 Approaches and methods in language teaching

a.Teaching English as L1, ESL, EFL

b.Different methods and approaches on English language teaching:  Grammar-Translation method, Direct method, Structural approach, Audio-lingual method, Communicative approach

c.Interlanguage

d.Different purposes of learning English: ESP (English for Specific Purposes), EAP (English for Academic purposes), EGP (English for general purposes)

Reference books

National Curriculum 1996

National Curriculum 2014

Communicative Language Teaching by William Littlewood from Cambridge University Press 1981

Unit 3 Curriculum, Textbook and ELT in Bangladesh

a.The National Curriculum 1996

b.The National Curriculum 2022

c.English for Today (from 6-22)

d.Transition from GT to CLT in Bangladesh

Unit 4 English Literature

Poems

a Robert Frost: Stopping by woods on a snowy evening

b Shelly: Skylark

c Wordsworth:  Lucy poems

d John Keats: Ode on a Grecian urn

Essay

Francis Bacon: Of Studies; Of Parents and Children

Short Story

 R. K. Narayan: An Astrologer’s Day

Reference:

Bacon’s Essays;F. G. Selby;Indian Edition, 1985

Prose of our time; Edited by Ahsanul Haque et al, December, 1980

Text books of the selected texts

Course Code	220309	Marks: 100	Credits: 4	Class Hours: 60
Course Title:	ICT Education Paper-I

UNIT	SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES	CONTENT
UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT)	The student will be able to: 1.Explain the concept of ICT and its related terminologies. 2.Describe the information processing cycle. 3. Identify the various devices used in the Information Processing Cycle 4.Analyze the impact of ICT on educational, social and economic development. 5.Identify career opportunities in ICT education.	Definition of ICT, related basic concepts and terminologies e.g. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) Data Information Information Processing Cycle Stage 1 - Receiving data (Input operation) Stage 2 - Processing data (Processing operation) Stage 3 - Display information (Output operation) Stage 4 - Storing information (Storage operation)
UNIT 2 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS	The student will be able to: 1. describe the uses of the components of computer system 2. Differentiate among the classes of computers. 3. State the uses of computers.	Classification of Computers Capacity and size - Supercomputer, - Mainframe computer - Microcomputer etc. Purpose - General purpose - Specific purpose Type - Digital - Hybrid - Analog Booting, Rebooting and Shutting Down of Computer Booting is the act of putting on the computer. Rebooting is the act of restarting the computer. Shutting down is the act of putting off the computer.
UNIT: 3 NUMBER SYSTEMS	The student will be able to: 1.     Describe the history of inventing numbers. 2.     Explain the concept and classification of number system. 3.     Convert and relate various numbers. 4.     Add and subtract binary numbers. 5.     Explain the concept Boolean Algebra 6.     Prove Boolean Algebra 7.     Explain De Morgan’s theorem. 8.     Explain Logic gates	·      History of inventing Numbers ·      Number System: Classification of Number System, Conversion of Numbers ·      Addition and Subtraction in Binary System ·      Code: Concept of Code, BCD, EBCDIC, Alphanumeric code, ASCII, Unicode ·      Boolean Algebra ·      Boolean Theorem ·      De Morgan’s Theorem ·      Truth Table ·      Logic gates: AND, OR, NOT gate
UNIT 4 COMPUTER HARDWARE	The student will be able to: 1.Identify the vital components of the Systems Unit. 2.Describe the categories of Computer Hardware. 3.Describe the commonly used Input and Output devices 4.Identify the main processing devices 5.Identify the main types of storage devices and media. 6. Identify the main communication devices	The Vital Components of the Systems Unit e.g. Front Side: power switch light indicators, floppy and CD ROM drive etc. Back side: USB ports, serial ports, power socket, Inside: motherboard, CPU, power supply, memory, hard disk, cards e.g. sound, network Categories of the Computer Hardware: Input devices Processing devices Output devices Storage devices. Communication devices Main Processing devices The Processor Control Unit and Arithmetic and Logic Unit
UNIT 5 COMPUTER SOFTWARE	The student will be able to: 1.Identify types of Software packages. 2. Distinguish between Operating System and Application software. 3.Identify different types, examples and uses of Operating System and Application software 4.Distinguish between Open Source and Proprietary Software.	Types of Software Packages System software. e.g. Operating system software Application Software e.g. Word Processing, Spreadsheet Differences between Operating System and Application software Types and uses of Operating System and Application software Operating System .e.g. Operating Systems e.g. DOS, Windows, (windows 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, Windows 7) Linux, Unix, Ubuntu, Macintosh etc. Application Software e.g. Word-processing: WORD spreadsheets: EXCEL Databases: Access Presentation: PowerPoint Educational software Games software Browsers: Internet explorer, Google chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox Authoring: Dream weaver, FrontPage, Graphics software Desktop Publisher – Page Maker, Publisher Differences Between Proprietary and Open Source Software

UNIT 6INTRODUCTION TO WORD PROCESSING APPLICATION, EDITING TEXT IN WORD PROCESSING DOCUMENT, FORMATTING, INSERTING TABLES AND SYMBOLS IN WORD PROCESSING DOCUMENT, CREATING AND PRINTINGEDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTS

The student will be able to: 1.   Identify Word Processing packages. 2.   Create a document using the Word Processor. 3.   Save a document using the „Save As‟ command. 4.   Edit, and save Word document using common editing tools. 5.   Create a document with more sub headings and paragraphs 6.   Edit text using variety of options. 7.   Format Word document using formatting tools. Demonstrate the ability to perform collaborative editing. 8.    Insert tables in Word Processing document. 9.    Insert symbols and pictures in Word Processing documents. 10.Use layout techniques in document creation. 11.Inserting headers and footers. 12.Print documents using the various print options.

Word Processing Packages and their Uses Creating Document Using a Word Processor Saving Document Using the ‘Save As’ command Editing Word Document Using Common Editing Tools: Spell check functions Copy/cut and paste facilities Undo and redo keys Search and replace Creating Document with More Sub- Headings and Paragraphs Editing Text Using Variety of Options such as: - Text effects options – superscript, subscript, shadow, strikeout etc. Text correction option Wrapping options Text orientation Formatting and saving a Word document using the formatting tools: Change font (style, size, colour, etc.) Text alignment Numbers and bulleting Bold Underline Italics Line spacing Collaborative Editing e.g. Using highlighting option to track changes in a document Accepting or rejecting changes Adding text comments: Inserting Tables in Word Document. Inserting Symbols and Pictures in Word Document.

Area-II:

Course Code	220311	Marks: 100	Credits: 4	Class Hours: 60
Course Title:	Economics Paper-I : Principle of Economics

1.Course Description

The course comprises both the Micro and Macro economic concepts and its relation to other subjects of social sciences including education. Fundamental principles of economics i.e. definitions, scopes, importance of studying economics, theories of demand and supply, factors and costs of production, pricing of factors of production, market structure, national income and education as human resource development constitute the core of this course.

2.Course Objectives

The main objectives of this course are: 

a)To help students understand various concepts of both micro and macro economics.

b)To make them familiar with various definitions of Economics and their interrelationships with other subjects of social science including education;

c)To explain to the students the concepts of demand and supply, and laws and factors governing demand and supply;

d)To enable them to understand how factors of production work, and how prices are determined;

e)To enable the students differentiate between classification of market;

f)To make them understand the concepts of National Income, GDP, GNP, NNP, Savings, Investments, Employment and Unemployment and methods of computing national income.

3.Course Contents         Number of Lectures

Unit One:  05

 Definition and scope of economics, importance of economics as a social science- Basic concepts in economics, importance of economics: Demand, Supply, Capital, Costs, Land, Labour, Organization, Profits, Saving, fundamental quantitative relationships.

Unit Two: 08

Demand: determinants of demands- law of demand-elasticity of demand-factors determining elasticity of demand- measurement of elasticity-price elasticity, income elasticity and cross elasticity.

Unit Three: 03

Supply: determinants of supply-law of supply- elasticity of supply- Factor determining elasticity of supply.

Unit Four:         08

Factors of production-land, labour, capital and organization. Cost of production money cost and opportunity cost- fixed cost and variable 

Course Code	220313	Marks: 100	Credits: 4	Class Hours: 60
Course Title:	Political Science Paper-I : Political Science Theory

1.Course Description

The course is designed to provide the students with necessary knowledge and understanding of the scope of political science as a discipline as well as a description of the nature and meaning of political theories, origin of the state, its functions, government and sovereignty.

2.Course Objectives

The main objectives of this course are: 

a.To help the students understand the concepts of political science as a discipline and the nature and the meaning of the concepts of nationalism and internationalism.

b.To mae them understand the theories of the origin state, its functions and the meaning and importance of the concept of government and sovereignty.

c. To enable them to evaluate the relevance of political theories and principles in particular contexts as citizens of a democratic country.

3.Course Contents         Number of Lectures

Unit One: Education in the Ancient Period 10

-Definitions and concepts of Political Science

-Nature, scope and method of political science

-Importance of studying political science 

-Its relationship to other disciplines of social science 

Unit Two: Nation 10

-Concept of Nation

-Nation and Nationalism

-Elements of Nationalism

-Internationalism

Unit Three: State 13

-Theories of the origin of the state

-State of society

-State of the Individual

-Functions of the state. Concepts of the Welfare State

-Liberalism. Utilitarianism and Totalitarianism

-Socialism and Economy

-Free Market Economy

Unit Four: Sovereignty 07

-Its nature and characteristics 

-Mouistic and Pluralistic theories

4.Instructional Strategies:

a)Lecture

b)Group Discussion

c)Reading

d) Library work and students’ participation in the classes

5.Evaluation

a.Class attendance 

b.Class participation

c.Tests and final examination

d.Written class assignment

Suggested reading:

1.Raymond G. Gettell: Political Science

2.J.W. Garner Political Science and Gvernment

3.Rodu Cariton Clymer and Other, Introduction to Political Science

4.David Easton, The Political System: An Inquiry into the State of Political Science

5.Hans Kohn: Nationalism: Its Meaning and History

6.J.H. Carlton Hayes, Essays on Nationalism

7.Carl J. Freedich and Brezenski: Totalitarian Dictationship Autocracy

8.R.H. Tawney Equality

9.C.D. Burns: Political Ideals

10. MacIver: The Modern State

11.J.A. Schumpeter: Capitalism and Democracy

12. F. Walkins: The Political Tradition of the West

13.Related Websites