DSES: 400: DIPLOMA IN SECONDARY TEACHER EDUCATION – ARTS/SCIENCE OPTION
INTRODUCTION
Diploma in Education (Arts/SCIENCE) is your entry to a teaching career in secondary schools. This course offers students’ knowledge and experience necessary to become secondary school teachers in art subjects like
- To develop the theoretical and practical knowledge about the teaching profession
- To promote national unity, national development , social equality and responsibility
- To develop teacher awareness, competencies and appreciation of technology in national development.
- To prepare a teacher who can
- Provide sustainable learning opportunities
- Develop learner communicative skills
- Develop learners ability to critically think and imaginative thinking in problem solving and self expression.
- Develop the individual learners potential abilities to the maximum through a variety of creative learning experiences.
- To develop in the teacher the ability to adopt , change ad appreciate innovation
UNITS
DSTES 401: Educational Psychology
DSTES 402: Environmental education
DSTES 403: Physical Education
DSTES 404: Communication skills
DSTES 405: Entrepreneurship
DSTES 406: Information Communication Technology
DSTES 407: General Workshop practices
DSTES 408: Library and information studies
DSTES 409: Guidance and counseling
DSTES 410: Mathematics
DSTES 411: Physics
DSTES 412: Chemistry
DSTES 413: Biology
DSTES 414: Home economics
DSTES 415: Agriculture
DSTES 416: Computer studies
DSTES 417: English
DSTES 418: Kiswahili
Each subject syllabus contains an introduction, course summary, suggested time allocation, general objectives, specific objectives, content, suggested teaching and learning activities, learning resources, and assessment method.
Note:
- A candidate must take two teaching subjects and professional support subjects.
- The course duration is three years
- Practical teaching will be undertaken for one terms
- To be awarded a DSTE certificate, the candidate should have successfully completed the practical teaching. (Teaching Practice)
- The examination will be conducted externally by the KNEC.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum qualifications are KCSE C+ plain or KCE Div. 2 or the equivalent C+ (plus in two teaching subjects)