Department of Social Science

Department of Social Sciences

Department contact person –   Zinashwork  Birhanu Tegegne                                e-mail-                                          http/Sost@gcte.educ.et

Department background

Social science department was started its training in 1995 G.C with History and Geography candidates in regular program. The first batch of Geography 9(nine) and History 12(Twelve) students were graduated in June 1997G.c.

The evening (extension) program was started in 1997G.C both in Geography and History candidates. The first batches were graduated in June 2000 G. C with 36 geography and 29 History graduates.

Department Vision

The vision of the Department of Social Science is to be a leading institution in producing vibrant Primary School Teachers in the region to solve major societal problems.

Department mission

Departments’ mission is to produce high-quality Primary School social Science Teachers. The department is committed to producing dedicated primary school teachers who can respond to local, national, and global demands. This will be accomplished through: rigorous academic training in regular, extension, and summer and distance education, providing up to date short training for in-service social science teachers, combining research and training to meet with the demands of quality education, and working with local and international partners that share the departments’ aspirations.

Department values

Focus on goals success                               Supremacy of the law

Compliance to ethical values                     Priority for females and for all who need support

Creating collective leadership                      Efficient utilization of information technologies

Special attention to research and creativity        Completion based on job efficiency

Efficiency on job                                                  Being customer focused

Problem solving training                                        Being industrious

Fair and transparent service                                    Promoting reward based system

Department organizational structure

Department of Social Sciences

Geography unit                                History unit      Civics & Ethical

Education unit

Environmental protection club                             Civics & ethical education club

INTEGRATED SOCIAL SCIENCE
I.                   BRIDG COURSES
No	Course  title	Course	Cr.hr.	Co.hr	Remark
1	Basic Mathematics I	Math 101	3	4
2	Basic Mathematics II	Math 102	3	5
3	Basic Natural Sciences  I	BNSC 101	3	6
4	Basic Natural Sciences  I I	BNSC 102	3	6
5	Basic English I	Eng 110	3	3
6	Basic English II	Eng 120	3	3
7	Art, Music, and Child Learning	TAME102	2	2
8	Basic Social Studies	Bsst 101	2	4
9	Hand Writing Skills	MT 111	2	2
10	Basic Mother Tongue	MT 112	2	2
11	Professional Ethics and Civic Education	Ceed 101	2	3
	TOTAL		28	40
II Pedagogical courses
No	Course  title	Course code	Cr.hr.	Co.hr	Remark
1	Application of Theories of Learning in P. School	EPSY 221	2	2
3	Curriculum and Instruction  in Primary School	Tecs 112	3	3
8	Child Development and Learning	EPSY 112	3	3
4	Inclusive Education in Primary Schools	SNIE 202	3	3
7	Assessment in primary school	EPSY 231	3	3
9	Sociological Perspective on teaching and learning	Tecs 222	3	3
2	Instructional  media and information communication Technology	IMICT 341	3	5
5	Cross-cutting Issues in Education	Educ 301	3	3
6	Action Research Theory)	Acr 301	1	1
10	School Management and School Improvement	Edpm 302	2	2
TOTAL			26	28
III Majorl courses
No	Course  title	Course code	Cr.hr.	Co.hr	Remark
1	Social Studies I	SoSt 211	4	6
2	Social Studies II	SoSt 222	4	6
3	Survey of Physical Geography	GeEs 201	3	3
4	Survey of Human Geography	GeEs 202	3	3
5	Practical Geography	GeEs 302	3	3
6	Ethiopian History Since 1941	HiEd 211	3	3
7	Colonial and Post-Colonial History of Africa	HiEd 222	3	3
8	History of the Contemporary World	HiEd 332	3	3
9	Teaching and Learning Social Studies in Primary Schools	TeSs 210	3	3
10	Teaching Social Studies I	TeSs 212	4	6
11	Teaching Social Studies II	TeSs 322	4	6
TOTAL			37	45
IV Suppotive courses
No	Course  title	Course code	Cr.hr.	Co.hr	Remark
1	Teaching Reading in content area	MT 301	3	3
Total			3	3
V. Practicum Courses
No	Course  title	Course code	Cr.hr.	Co.hr	Remark
1	PRACTICUM I  (School Observation)	Prac I 112	1	1
2	PRACTICUM II (Critical Classroom Observation)	Prac II 221	2	2
3	PRACTICUM III   Assisting  the  class room Teacher	Prac III  232	3	3
4	PRACTICUM IV (block Teaching) Action Research included	Prac IV  341	6	6
5	Reflection on Specific Teaching Methods Practiced During Practicum (seminar)	Prac       352	2	2
	Total		14	14
VI. COURSES SUMMERY
NO	COURSE  TITLE	Course code	Cr.hr.	Co.hr	NO of courses
1	BRIDGE COURSES		28	40	11
2	MAJOR  COURSES		37	45	11
3	PEDAGOGICL  COURSES		26	28	10
4	SUPPORTIVE   COURSES		3	3	1
5	PRACTICUM  COURSES		14	14	5
	Total		108	130	38
Semester Break down
Year I      Semester I
NO	COURSE  TITLE	Course code	Cr.hr.	Co.hr	Remark
1	Basic Natural Science I	BNSc 101	3	6
2	Basic Mathematics I	Math 101	3	4
3	Basic English I	Eng 110	3	3
4	Basic Mother tongue	MT 112	2	2
5	Basic Social Studies	BsSt 101	2	4
6	Primary curriculum and instruction	TECs 112	3	3
7	Hand Writing Skill	MT( Am) 101	2	2
Total			18	24
Year I:              Semester II
NO	COURSE  TITLE	Course code	Cr.hr.	Co.hr	Remark
1	Basic Natural Science II	BNSc 102	3	6
2	Basic Mathematics II	Math 102	3	5
3	Basic English II	Eng 120	3	3
4	Professional Ethics and Civic Education	CEEd 101	2	3
5	Child development and learning	EPSY 112	3	3
6	Art, Music and child learning	TAMe 102	2	2
7	Practicum I	Prac-112	1	1
		Total	17	23
Year II:                  Semester I
NO	COURSE  TITLE	Course code	Cr.hr.	Co.hr	Remark
1	Survey of Physical Geography	GeEs 201	3	3
2	Teaching and Learning Social Studies in Primary Schools	TeSs 210	3	3
3	Ethiopian History Since 1941	HiEd 211	3	3
4	Practicum II	Prac-221	2	2
5	Assessment in Primary School teaching	EPSy 231	3	3
6	Social Studies I	SoSt  211	4	6
7	Application of theories of learning in primary schools	EPSy 221	2	2
Total			20	22
Year II:             Semester II
NO	COURSE  TITLE	Course code	Cr.hr.	Co.hr	Remark
1	Teaching social Studies I	TeSs 212	4	6
2	social Studies II	SoSt 222	4	6
3	Inclusive Education in Primary Schools	SNIE  202	3	3
4	Practicum III	Prac-232	3	3
5	Instructional Media and Information communication Technology	IMICT 341	3	5
6	Cross-cutting Issues in Education	EDUC  301	3	3
Total			20	26
Year III:                     Semester I
NO	COURSE  TITLE	Course code	Cr.hr.	Co.hr	Remark
1	Colonial and Post-Colonial History of Africa	HiEd 222	3	3
2	PRACTICUM IV	Prac- 341	6	6
3	Survey of Human Geography	GeEs 202	3	3
4	Sociological Perspectives on Teaching and Learning	TECS 222	3	3
5	Action Research	ACR 301	1	1
Total			16	16
Year III:             Semester II
NO	COURSE  TITLE	Course code	Cr.hr.	Co.hr	Remark
1	Practical Geography	GeEs 302	3	3
2	History of the Contemporary World	HiEd 332	3	3
3	Teaching Reading in Content Areas	MT 301	3	3
4	Teaching Social Studies II	TeSs 322	4	6
5	School Management and School Improvement	EDPM  302	2	2
6	Seminar	Prac 352	2	2
Total			17	19
CREDIT AND CONTACT HOUR SUMMERY
NO	Year	Semester	Cr.hr.	Co.hr	NO OF COURSES
1	Year I	I	18	24	7
2	Year I	II	17	23	7
3	Year II	I	20	22	7
4	Year II	II	20	26	6
5	Year III	I	16	16	5
6	Year III	II	17	19	6
	Total		108	130	38

Department Entry requirement

In order to recruit competent and effective trainees, the following requirements are considered as basic tools:

1, Health Status and physical Competency

• Individuals who want to take teaching training in Social Science Department must free from lung cancer and mental illness.

2. Age

• The age of the recruits must be between 17-35 years

3. Personal and professional ethics

The new recruits have to exercise the following personal and professional ethics:

• Voluntary to work in teaching profession
• Special love to teaching profession
• Being role model for students in his/her work and ethics
• Free from harmful addictions

4. Academic competency

The new recruits are expected to fulfill the following academic requirements:

• He/she must be grade 12 complete in the regular, evening or distance program of the new education and training policy.
• He/she must attended The Ethiopian School of Leaving Certificate Examination /ESLCE/ in at least one of the last three consecutive academic years.
• The minimum required grade for Mathematics and English is “C”

5. Transcript Score

• The average score from grade 11-12 or grade 9-12 must be 50 % and above.

Department man power

There are 10 males and 1 female, a total of 11 instructors in the department

Serial no.	Name of the instructors	Educational level	Year of service
1	Eshetu  Muhammed	MA	34years
2	Asaminew Dubale	MA	16 years
3	Dejen Demissie	MA	30 years
4	Abebe Asfaw	MA	23 years
5	Almeneh Melese	MA	20 years
6	Shewanesh Fissha	M A	33 years
7	Fithanegest Ayenew	MA	19 years
8	Gizachew Legesse	MA	24 years
9	Tadele Mulugeta	MA	17 years
10	Yenesew Alene	MA	34 years
11	Zinashwork Birhanu	MA	16 Years

Department Annual Plan

The department has planned:-

• Tutorial program for female Students to improve  their results
• Preparing 3rd year students for COC, Examination.
• Continuously advising, guiding and awareness creation about their ethical behavior and morality/Norms/.
• Making students and instructors to involve in co-curricular activities.
• Continuous Professional Development training for instructors to update their professional skills.
• Conducting community servicing.
• Research and training
• Conducting E-lesson in teaching and learning Activities

Major achievement of the Department

Activities	Achievement	Remark
Tutorial for female Students	Female students has improved and  recoded better grade their results, actively participated in class room teaching learning activities
Preparing 3rd year students for COC, Examination.	For the last three years at least 98% of/ Civics and Ethical Students /and 65% of Social science students had passed their CoC examination
Continuously advising, guiding and awareness creation about their ethical behavior and morality/Norms/.	Almost all of the students of the department have shown complete change in their hair and clothing style, as well as good relationships among themselves and with their teachers
Making students and instructors to Involve in co-curricular activities	Students and instructors started to conserve, protect and manage different flower trees and watering the newly planted trees
Continuous Professional Development training	Instructor had updated their professional knowledge and skill as a result classroom teaching learning activities had become more smart than the earlier once
Conducting community servicing	With continuous professional support and training, primary school social science teachers had solved their classroom and academic challenges they faced.
Research and training	Department instructors had conducted a research and action research on selected contemporary topics that has been applied in the teaching learning activities
Conducting E-lesson in teaching and learning Activities	Students had obtained supplementary clarification in their lessons like Geography lessons.

 

Department clubs

There are two clubs under the department namely Civics and Ethical club and Environmental protection club.

1. Civics and Ethical club

 Objectives of the club

• To create Ethical and Responsible Citizens
• To build a democratic outlook for trainees to be active participant

Activates done in the academic Year (2012 E.C)

• Cleaning collage  compound
• Protecting new plants
• Celebrating Anti- Corruption day by different activities such as( Panel discussion, Question and answering on Corruption, preparing and disseminating brochures  etc)

Club Members in the academic year (2012 E.C)

Male- 110

Female- 140

Total- 250

2. Environmental protection club

Objectives of the club

• To develop the awareness of the club members and the college community about the existing interaction and the relationship between natural and human environment.
• To create good reading environment in the college by nurturing plants.
• To celebrate environmental protection day through different activities
• To prepare training and experience sharing program me in collaboration with central Gondar zone agriculture department and environmental protection and land administration department.
• To develop knowledge, skill and attitude of club members by exposing them for different training and workshops prepared by NGO’s working on environmental issues.

Activates done in the academic Year (2012 E.C)

• Planting trees in collaboration with other collage communities.
• Nurturing the newly planted trees throughout the dry season
• Cleaning the collage Campus, etc

Club Members in the academic year (2012 E.C)

Male- 12

Female- 3

Total- 15

Community Servicing

What is Community Servicing?

It is about thinking beyond classroom and giving professional supports to the primary school social science teachers.

When is Community servicing be given?

It could be given as soon as school started to open both in first and second semesters. by preparing different training and workshops so that they can simplicity the classroom activities.

How is Community servicing be givens

• Make need assessment on primary school social science teachers
• Priorities the issues to be delivered
• Prepare supportive and training materials
• Scheduling training dates and conducting short training.

Beneficiaries of Community servicing:- both Government and private Primary school social science Teachers

Impacts of Community servicing:

• Teachers Simplified their daily lessons
• Shared experience
• Improved classroom methodology
• Upgraded professional knowledge and skills
• Positive influence on students achievement

Topics give during Community servicing training

• How to teach social science lessons in the classroom
• Hot to apply different active learning techniques in social science lessons
• Ethics and morality of students both in schools and out of schools
• Best lesson of CPD.

Teachers / Staff Development

Topics / Activities/ selected for Teachers Continuous Professional Development / CPD/ Program

1. The Concept of Continuous Assessment
2. Basic Characteristics of Continuous Assessment
3. Basic Techniques of Continuous Assessment
4. Table of Specification preparation
5. General Principles of Test Items Writing
6. Student-Centered Teaching style
7. Action Research

All instructors of Social Science Department are invited to participate in the CPD program.

Students current enrolment

Currently, the Department of Social Science has enrolled 488 students attending diploma programs in both regular and extension programs.

Regular										Evening
Department	Year I			Year II			Year III			Year I			Year II			Year III
	M	F	T	M	F	T	M	F	T	M	F	T	M	F	T	M	F	T
Integrated Social Science	28	22	50	15	6	21	11	5	16	16	21	37	43	33	76	32	12	44
Civics & Ethical Edu							18	18	36	19	46	65	32	37	69	45	29	74