Department of Education
Introduction
Department of Education was established in 2010 and functioning with the following vision, mission and goals in New Academic Block-I, 2nd Floor, Hafiz Hayat Campus, University of Gujrat
Vision
Department of Education envisions to educate prospective teachers who have potential to reimagine the pedagogical approaches effective for social transformation through skilled manpower equipped with morals, ethics to create a prosperous and fairer society. For the purpose, department looks forward to the globally advanced models of teacher education, for producing competent professionals, having moral, social and ethical ideals, in the field of teaching, assessments, and research. The same scenario can be actualized by merit, professional commitment, critical pedagogy: interactive, constructive and activity-based teaching, training and education.
Mission
Department of Education pursues International Standards for Quality Teacher Education, to be at par with the developed education systems across the globe. The standards, in general, encompass the following four key aspects of teacher education:
- Knowledge: Understanding facts, concepts, teaching-learning principles, and theoretical perspectives of instructional practices.
- Skills: Fostering Conducive Learning environment, Critical and Transformative pedagogy, authentic assessments, and to be role models for the future generations.
- Professional Attributes: Morality, Curiosity, competency, adaptability, and responsibility.
- Interpersonal Skills: Empathy, Passion, sharing and caring, fairness, inclusiveness, leadership, and collaboration.
The department would focus on the efforts that must harmonize and reorientate itself to the vision, to provide just, equitable, and value-based education, as a right for all and for life long, as a public and a common good. The teacher educators would do their best to prepare teachers, to be enable to build connections with elementary, secondary and higher education to address the social, economic, ethical and climate challenges being faced by the immediate society. It would be possible through cooperative and collaborative work, research projects for solution of the social problems, seminars/conferences for continuous learning and development. All this would be possible through empowering prospective teachers with professional excellence and integrity to deliver quality education, essential for the peace and prosperity of the society in the 21st century.
Focus: We try our best to realize the full teaching potential of the graduates through providing useful, meaningful and practical education which increases their likelihood to be successful professionals. We prepare future teachers through rigorous classroom coaching and practicum, to apply the acquired knowledge and skills to cope with day to day social and professional challenges rather than merely acquiring theoretical knowledge. We emphasize, practice and expect them to promote facilitation, thinking, self- learning, exploration, discovery and creativity in the real classroom settings. Further we strive to enable them to innovate for creating such a classroom environment which is supportive for the learners’ physical and emotional health, intellectual development and meaningful learning experiences. Finally we see our graduates to be successful in earning ‘Teaching License’, having command on the updated subject matter as well research based pedagogical skills.
To achieve what said, we offer following programs at the department of education.
For all this the Department of Education is well-prepared for the tasks, currently having 5 PhDs and 2 MPhil faculty members, well-equipped spacious, air conditioned classrooms having smart boards and multimedia both connected to Wi-Fi and white boards like state of the art facilities