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Nelson Mandela University

Bachelor of Education in Intermediate Phase Teaching

The Bachelor of Education in Intermediate Phase Teaching in Education is offered by Nelson Mandela University.

Program Length: 4 YEARS.

This programme has been approved in terms of the new Higher Education Qualification Sub-Framework (HEQSF).

This programme’s main objectives are to create competent, professional teachers that are prepared to work in diverse schools in South Africa and beyond. They aim to provide the students with the knowledge, understanding, and skills that will enable them to enhance teaching and learning in all Intermediate Phase subjects. 

The successful completion of the Bachelor of Education programme articulates with related qualifications as follows: 

• Horizontally: On the completion of the B Ed (IP) graduates will be eligible to enroll for the ADE (Level 7) or ACT (Level 6), should they wish to further strengthen and enhance their existing specialization or want to develop a new role of practice to support teaching and learning in a school or in education more broadly.
• Vertically: On successful completion of the BEd (IP), graduates will be eligible to apply for admission to the B Ed Hons or Postgraduate Diploma (in Education).

Admission Requirements 

• Minimum NSC statutory requirements for degree entry
• Minimum Applicant Score of 370 for applicants with NSC Grade 12 Mathematics. 
• Minimum Applicant Score of 385 for applicants with NSC Grade 12 Mathematical Literacy or Technical Mathematics.
• NSC achievement rating of at least 45% for Mathematics or 60% for Mathematical Literacy or Technical Mathematics.
• NSC achievement rating of at least 50% for English (Home Language or First Additional Language) AND 50% for Afrikaans or isiXhosa (Home Language or First Additional Language).

Career Opportunities

Graduates of the Bachelor of Education in Intermediate Phase Teaching will end up embody the following Exit Level Outcomes: 

• Critically engage with theoretical knowledge related to educational philosophy, sociology, history, psychology, politics, and economics from an educational perspective. 
• Be able to organise, select, design, and implement effective learning and teaching to respond to different needs. 
• Coherently integrate educational theory, pedagogical content knowledge and subject discipline knowledge in praxis.
• Be able to teach English and Afrikaans or isiXhosa as Language of Learning and Teaching.
• Demonstrate the ability to mediate learning through developing numeracy, literacy and information technology skills.

Curriculum (Full-time)

FIRST YEAR 

Starting out as beginner teacher 

Theories of Human Development and Learning 

History of South African Schooling 

Intermediate Phase English: 1ST Additional Language

Intermediate Phase Mathematics Method: Number Development, Patterns and Data

Intermediate Phase Natural Sciences and Technology: Doing Science and Technology

Intermediate Phase Social Sciences: Introduction to Social Sciences

Intermediate Phase Life Skills: The basics of Life Skills

Intermediate Phase Mathematics: Fundamental

Intermediate Phase Mathematics: Fundamental

Computer Literacy

SECOND YEAR 

Becoming a Student Teacher 

Philosophy of Education 

Curriculum Policy and Development 

Intermediate Phase English: 1ST Additional Language 2

Intermediate Phase Mathematics Method: Measurement, Space and Shape

Intermediate Phase Natural Sciences and Technology: Understanding and Connecting Ideas

Intermediate Phase Social Sciences: Themes in History and Geography

Intermediate Phase Life Skills: Development of the Self

Media for Teaching and Learning

THIRD YEAR 

Being a student teacher 

Inclusive Teaching and Learning for South Africa

Intermediate Phase English: 1ST Additional Language 3

Intermediate Phase: Basic Arts education 

Intermediate Phase: Introduction to Economic and Management Sciences

FOURTH YEAR 

Belonging to a community of practice 

Issues in Education 

Intermediate Phase: Extended Arts education

Each year, the student will have to choose more than one optional module, depending on what they chose on previous years.