Kibogora Polytechnic

This module is designed to introduce the learners to the sub-field of deontology of teachers means. It also examines various definitions of deontology related concepts, importance of deontology, element of deontology, moral principles guiding deontology, features of deontological theories, code of ethics, professional ethics of teachers and education law and legislation interpretation. It takes time and experience to become a professional teacher. Teachers should have a rich store of well-organized knowledge about many specific situations of ethics. This includes knowledge about the professional teachers as an academic staff and others administrative staff working in schools, general teaching strategies, problem solving strategies etc. but all these need to be driven by a strong knowledge and understanding in the field of ‘foundations of education’.
The goals of this ‘deontology of teachers is to:
• Have theoretical, technical and practical knowledge for positive professionalism;
• Adopt positive behavior in a socio-professional workplace;
• Assess and appreciate ideal image of a professional teacher;
• Determine measures to adopt depending on a particular deontological context;
• Examine ethical and professional responsibilities and duties of teacher;
• Describe the importance of administrative deontology of teacher;
• Describe the legal implications of unprofessionalism;
• Critically evaluate education law and legislation
• Show empathy in executing teaching professionals’ roles; and
• Value the importance of teachers’ role in achieving quality education.

Course Objectives

There are objectives to be achieved in each unit of the course. You should read them before studying each unit. It is expected that by the time you have finished studying this course you should be able to:
 explain the nature of human language;
 identify the levels of linguistic description;
 systematically analyze the linguistic structure of any language;  explain the history and development of linguistics;
 describe theoretical frameworks;
 apply linguistic principles to the various levels of linguistic description in English and
other languages.

The module of ICT skills II is intended to equip the student with basic aspects of different types of computers application software used in different fields, and the appropriateness of use of computers in solving daily problems:

topics:

1.      To discuss the role of the packages of Microsoft office (Word, excel and power point).

2.      To use different packages of Microsoft office (Word, excel and power point) in daily life.

3.      To Conduct online search of the basic information related to their fields of study.