Curriculum & Instruction Department

An overview on Undergraduate Studies Program (BA)

This program aims at preparing teachers who are qualified to teach the Omani curricula at the basic and post-basic education levels in various disciplines, learning about educational developments, changes and global trends, and striving to benefit from their academic and practical applications in Omani curricula. Students in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction acquire knowledge and skills related to teaching through their study of educational courses in curricula and teaching methods, which are supported by the practical aspect in which students receive training in teaching skills using the microteaching labs. This is followed by providing an intensive dose of teaching experiences to students through field visits to partner schools. This aims to provide the students with the chance to be acquainted with the labor market, link the theoretical aspect with the practical one and gain varied practical experiences. Finally, the students' experiences are crowned with a one-semester Field Training so as to supply the educational sector with qualified human resource capacities who can pursue this noble mission. The department offers a bachelor's program in curricula and Instruction in four specializations: (Arabic, English, science and mathematics, and social studies). It is to be noted, however, that admission to the social studies program has been suspended due to the lack of demand for teachers in this specialization.  The total number of credit hours in this program is 125.

 

The Department of Curriculum and Instructions runs the following degree plans: 

 

Arabic Language:

 

English Language:

 

 Biology:

 

Chemistry:

 

Mathematics:

 

Physics:

Courses Descriptions
Science and Science Education (UE): CUTM1001
This course presents the concept of science, its nature, and its structure. It also treats the concept of scientific literacy, and its elements . It aims at introducing the role of science in serving the society, and the inter-relationship among science, society, culture, and environment. The local scientific activities are emphasized.

 

Environmental Education (UE): CUTM1002
This course aims at introduces the concept of environment, its components, and the causes of environmental equilibrium and dis-equilibrium. It also discusses the role of human beings in the process of environmental dis-equilibrium and its consequences on the society . It presents some local environmental issues, and some important environmental policies.

 

Principles of Teaching (UE): CUTM1003
The course aims at giving students general background knowledge on pedagogy, its importance , concepts and skills. It covers the definition of teaching, its components and processes. Content areas include planning, implementation, evaluation, methods of teaching, class room interaction, questioning, motivating and class room management.
Educational Curriculum: CUTM3007
This course aims at providing students with the bases of ELT curriculum design and development. Content areas include the distinction between curriculum and syllabus, a brief account of bases of ELT curriculum design and the different components of a curriculum guide and types of ELT sykkabi.

 

Educational's Curriculum: CUTM3400
The course aims to develop students' abilities in understanding the concept of curriculum, its types, bases, its Islamic identity, and the relationship between its components (i.e objectives, content, techniques, activities, and evaluation). It also aims to help students to capture the different designs and organizations of curriculum theoretically and practically. It also focuses on core and integrated curriculum as well as the different processes of developing and evaluating curriculum in its different stages and identifying the roles of people involved in these stages. Finally the course presents practical applications for the different components of curriculum.

 

Islamic's Curriculum: CUTM3401
This course deals with the concept of curriculum past and present, its elements and foundations. It also covers the definitions and procedures followed in designing, implementing, evaluating and developing Islamic education curriculum. The course also covers criteria of selecting and sequencing areas of content and task types of Islamic education curriculum.

 

Arabic's Curriculum: CUTM3402
This course deals with the concept of curriculum past and present. It covers the definitions and procedures followed in designing, implementing, evaluating and developing Arabic curriculum. The course also covers criteria of selecting and sequencing areas of content and task types of Arabic curriculum.

 

Social Studies's Curriculum: CUTM3403
This course deals with the concept of curriculum, its components and principles and criteria of their selection, organization and analysis It covers the definitions, rationales ,steps and procedures followed in building, designing, implementing, evaluating and developing Social Studies curriculum.

 

Science's Curriculum: CUTM3404
This course deals with the concept of curriculum past and present. It covers the definitions and procedures followed in designing, implementing, evaluating and developing science curriculum. The course also covers criteria of selecting and sequencing areas of content, task types and designs of science curriculum.

 

Math's Curriculum: CUTM3405
This course deals with the concept of curriculum. It covers the definitions and procedures followed in designing, implementing, evaluating and developing Mathematics curriculum. The course also covers criteria of selecting and sequencing areas of content and task types of Mathematics curriculum.

 

Physical Education's Curriculum: CUTM3406
This course aims at acquitting students with the principles and aims related to skills identified in the Omani PE national curriculum. It gives students opportunities to plan programs to promote better integrated learning experiences. The course covers health education through physical education and learning learn different subjects through physical education.

 

Art's Curriculum: CUTM3407
This course aims to introduce the concept of curriculum in generally and in art education in particularly and its history, establishment, basics and processes. Its also aims to introduce the student to curriculum models in teaching art and its development and stages of teaching art curriculum in order to understand the basics of art education curriculum design and its components. Its also aims to introduce the curriculum organizing in generally and in art curriculum in specifically. This course also includes the role of art curriculum in developing creative thinking and the way of analyzing and developing art curriculum.

 

Information Technology's Curriculum: CUTM3408
This course deals with the concept of curriculum past and present. It covers the definitions and procedures followed in designing, implementing, evaluating and developing Information Technology curriculum. The course also covers criteria of selecting and sequencing areas of content, task types and designs of Information Technology curriculum.
Methods of Teaching Islamic Education (1): CUTM3010
This course contains the following : the meaning of method in teaching and relation with other curriculum elements , general characteristics of teaching methods in Islamic education , competences of Islamic education teachers, the use of teaching methods, such as: discussion , story, inquiry problem-solving , role play, deductive, inductive and the integrative approach in teaching The Holy Quran, the Prophet's Sunna, Islamic doctrine, Jurisprudence, the Prophet's biography with practical samples in teaching the Holy Quran and Prophet's Sunna. Also training in teaching skills through microteaching.

 

Methods of Teaching Arabic (1): CUTM3011
This course aims at helping students to acquit re a series of knowledge, skills and values related to teaching Arabic in the second phase of Basic Education. It covers the following topics;(1) the nature and roles of Language, (2) the teaching difficulties of Arabic, (3) the definitions, advantages and principles of micro-teaching, (4) the general teaching skills, including lesson planning, implementation and evaluation,(5) the general teaching methods and their applications to teaching Arabic, (6) teaching language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing ), (7) teaching Arabic language elements (grammar, spelling rules and handwriting ) and (8) the planning, implementation and evaluation of language activities.

 

Methods of Teaching English (1): CUTM3012
The course introduces the students to the major trends and methods in TEFL for both young learners and adults. It familiarizes the students with the strategies and models for teaching receptive skills and some language areas such as pronunciation and vocabulary. Moreover, the course focuses on equipping the students with the necessary skills in lesson planning. In addition, the course provides student teachers with a step-by-step practical training in teaching the above-mentioned content (microteaching 1). It is worth mentioning that the content of the course takes into account the local needs of teaching English as a foreign language.

 

Methods of Teaching Social Studies (1): CUTM3014
This course aims at introducing students to the concept of social studies and its historical developments, its relation with other disciplines; helping students to identify aims and objectives their sources and how they are stated and written; to be familiar with the traditional and modern methods of teaching how they are used effectively in practice and what are the pros and cons of each method. The course aims also at training students in effectively using textbooks, analyzing their content, and making use of instructional media, assessment instruments and devices, and lesson planning ang stating questions in the classroom situations. The course includes practical applications of lesson planning and implementation, classroom management and interaction, which are carried out through micro teaching sessions.

 

Methods of Teaching Science (1): CUTM3016
This course introduces students to the nature of science and its processes. It provides them with knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable them to teach science in accordance with modern trends in science education. It emphasizes the importance of linking classroom practice to learners' mental processes and their developmental characteristics. It encourages students to become creative thinkers and be able to produce variety of teaching ideas for a single teaching situation. It focuses on science education aims for the twenty first century, general teaching skills, content analysis, and attitudes towards science and science teaching.

 

Methods of Teaching Mathematics (1): CUTM3017
Mathematics objectives in Basic education and its Mathematics basic cores, lesson plan preparation skills and practical models, Content analysis of Mathematics in Basic Education(Concepts, algorithms and skills), Mathematics teaching methods and strategies: cooperative learning, discovery and problem solving. Students will learn new trends in Mathematics teaching and new evaluation methods of mathematics education. This course includes the uses of educational technology in mathematics e.g. Computers and Calculators.

 

Methods of Teaching Physical Education (1): CUTM3018
The course aims at providing the students with an introduction to Physical Education through studying a theoretical framework of the teaching process and connecting it with the practical side. The course presents a description of the Physical Education teacher's tasks and activities related to implementing the syllabus inside the school and participating in the supplementary educational activities outside school. The course also provides a clarification of the basic teaching methods suitable for the nature of the content and the different stages of students' age with an emphasis on the importance of planning and its role in helping the teacher to create and innovate beside giving attention to measurement and evaluation in the learning situation.

 

Methods of Teaching Art Education (1): CUTM3027
This course aims at helping the student to master the skills and learning tasks in the areas of planning, implementing and evaluating teaching in art education; acquire the pedagogic knowledge, skills and teaching methods of teaching art education in the second cycle basic education in the Sultanate of Oman ; analyzing the books of art education in the same cycle and developing the skills necessary for mastering the learning tasks; teaching some of the art education topics in microteaching and designing and building concept maps and advanced organizers.. The methods used in teaching this course are lecturing, discussion, cooperative learning, workshops, group work, field training, individual assignment and projects.

 

Information Technology Teaching Methods (1): CUTM3029
This course covers the following items: - Objectives of information technology teaching methods. - Approaches of information technology teaching methods. - Different methods in teaching information technology. - Planning in information technology teaching. - practicing in information technology teaching methods. - Evaluation in information technology teaching methods.
Methods of Teaching Islamic Education (2): CUTM4010
The content of this course appears in the following: modern attitudes toward teaching Islamic education, use of new technology in teaching education such as : television, computer, and internet. In addition, self-learning, cooperative group learning, thinking skills, content analysis, problems related to memorizing the Holy Quran and the prophet's Sunna, problems related to the constitution of morals and attitudes, skills of performance, training in teaching skills through microteaching and modern teaching methods to teach Islamic education.

 

Methods of Teaching Arabic (2): CUTM4011
This course aims at providing students with knowledge, skills values and positive attitudes of teaching Arabic in the latest years of the second phase of Basic Education and the two years of post Basic Education. The course focuses on teaching Arabic literature. This includes topics related to the aims, methods and difficulties of teaching: (1) the history of Arabic literature, (2) literary texts, (3) rhetoric, (4) literary appreciation and criticism, and (5) prosody. The course also covers pedagogical topics such as: the good qualities of the teacher of Arabic, extra language activities, and teaching practice.

 

Methods of Teaching English (2): CUTM4012
This course is a continuation of the previous prerequisite CUTM 3012. It provides the students with a critical analysis of the remaining major trends and methods in TEFL for both young learners and adults. It familiarizes the students with the strategies and models for teaching productive skills and some language areas such as pronunciation and structure. Moreover, the student teachers are to be familiarized with the major technique's for integrative teaching of English language. The course also focuses on equipping the students with the necessary skills in classroom management. In addition, it provides student teachers with a step-by-step practical training in teaching the above-mentioned content (microteaching 2) .

 

Methods of Teaching Social Studies (2): CUTM4014
This course aims at broadening and deepening the students knowledge of social studies concepts, issues and methods, helping them acquire the necessary skills for using modern methods and approaches to teacging social studies: enquiry, problem solving cooperative learning, brainstorming and environmental education, as well as skills relating to effective use of maps and globe. Students are also provided with knowledge and skills necessary for dealing with various kinds of learning resources, learning activities, first hand sources, current events, supplementary readings, advanced information technology - computer and data bases-and how to be used in teaching social studies.

 

Methods of Teaching Science (2): CUTM4016
This course provides students with knowledge and skills necessary for practicing modern science teaching methods. It enables prospective science teacher to evaluate learning outcomes and to identify students' misconceptions. This course emphasizes the importance of linking teaching practice to major learning theories in science education such as constructivism, information processing theory, and Ausuble's theory of meaningful learning . Moreover, this course aims to develop prospective teachers' critical and creative thinking and train them to become independent learners. It also focuses on elevating their motivation to teach science.

 

Methods of Teaching Mathematics (2): CUTM4017
This course aims at developing advanced skills in teaching mathematics. Therefore, the content includes the following subjects: The analysis of math curriculum in secondary school and in high stage of basic education school, teaching mathematic proves and mathematical thinking utilization of computers in teaching mathematics (Internet and Microsoft programs), teaching selected subject matters of math content, applications of theories of learning in teaching mathematics (Gagne , Piage, ...), and teaching math for special students.

 

Methods of Teaching Physical Education (2): CUTM4018
The course aims at helping the students to understand the interrelationship connecting between the teaching methods, strategies and approaches as well as its role in implementing the syllabus of Physical Education. The course includes up-to-date approaches of teaching the different branches of the subject suitable for the technology available at schools. The course also emphasizes the teaching skills necessary for the Physical Education teacher and the different ways of implementing it in real life as well as clarifying the different methods, forms and tools of evaluation that are used in teaching.

 

Methods of Teaching Art Education (2): CUTM4027
This course aims at helping the students to have a comprehensive knowledge of the different classifications of the teaching units in Art Education, developing the skills of planning modules and successive teaching units and implementing these skills in microteaching; content analysis of art education books and syllabi in the secondary stage; mastering the skills of carrying out the learning tasks; acquiring some of the thinking styles in art education teaching and practicing these styles in microteaching studying the appropriate and necessary strategies in the field of art education; using computer in teaching art education, and mastering some of the recent and innovative models in planning and teaching . The methods used in teaching this course are lecturing, discussion, cooperative learning, workshops, group work, field training, individual assignment and projects.

 

Information Technology Teaching Methods (2): CUTM4029
This course covers the following items: - The instructional strategies objectives for information technology. - Differnt teaching theories. - Applying different instructional theories and models in teaching. - Utilizing, and evaluating technology-based learning environments. - Skills of managing the class and learning. - Skills if teaching thinking.
Teaching Practice: CUTM4500
This course is a school teaching practice where information technology student teaches in actual classroom environment.

 

Student Teaching: CUTM4600
This course aims to enable the candidate to apply and demonstrate his/her specialized knowledge in promoting professional practice and teaching competencies as a trainee teacher in the partner school. The candidate receives direct training in the partner schools for an entire semester. The course provides candidates with opportunities for direct practical application of the College of Education conceptual framework. The Student teaching is designed, implemented and evaluated based on the principle of partnership between the college and the partner schools. The candidate is expected to apply the professional responsibilities of the school teacher and make use of the knowledge he/she acquired during his years of study at the College to support students? learning and meets their needs.
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