Bachelor of
Secondary Education - Social Studies
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About the Program
The Bachelor of Secondary Education major in Social Studies is an undergraduate teacher education program aimed to produce highly competent Social Studies educators equipped with content mastery, pedagogical capacities, research skills, and teaching techniques to facilitate successful learning of skills to explain phenomena through social science perspectives. BSEd – Social Studies students are expected to create teaching-learning activities, instructional materials, and initiatives to encourage learners to make informed decisions for the public good as responsible members of the interdependent world. Graduates of the program are perceived to be committed to ethical standards and lifelong learning precepts and to possess agility and flexibility toward educational reforms.
Program Educational Objectives
Three to five years after graduation, the graduates are expected to:
- Demonstrate updated and deep knowledge of the subject matter they teach.
- Apply a wide range of teaching process skills particularly on lesson planning, materials development, teaching approaches, ICT integration, and ethical considerations.
- Demonstrate effective communication skills and ethical responsibility in teaching profession.
- Engage in continuing professional education and trainings.
Student Outcomes
By the time of graduation, the students of the program shall have the ability to:
- Articulate the relation of education to larger historical, socio-cultural, philosophical, psychological and political processes.
- Demonstrate mastery of subject matter/discipline.
- Facilitate learning using a wide range of teaching methodologies and delivery modes appropriate to specific learners and their environment.
- Develop innovative curricula, instructional plans, teaching approaches, and resources for diverse learners.
- Apply skills in the development and utilization of ICT to promote quality, relevant, and sustainable educational practices.
- Demonstrate a variety of thinking skills in planning, monitoring, assessing, and reporting learning processes and outcomes.
- Practice professional and ethical teaching standards sensitive to the local, national, and global realities.
- Pursue lifelong learning for personal and professional growth through varied experiential and field-based opportunities.
- Utilize appropriate various sociocultural and historical materials in explaining current issues.
- Organize communities towards self-reliance and self-sufficiency.
- Demonstrate leadership skills that will help in teaching or training students who will empower their communities.
- Integrate local and global perspectives in teaching the principle of the common good.
- Employ principles of sustainable development in teaching and learning.
- Show scholarship in research and further learning.
- Display the qualities of an innovative teacher who has mastery of the subject matter.