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This course aims to provide student-teachers with knowledge of developing four language skills in preschool children (0 – grade R) through the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and relevant teaching methods.
Welcome aboard! I am excited to have you join the Care and Safety course . Over the coming weeks, you’ll gain valuable insights, sharpen your skills in ECE.
This course is designed to expose student-teachers to teaching practice. It provides student teachers with an opportunity to put theory into practice, such as use of play based approaches suitable for pre-school learners; scheme and plan lessons with assistance from their cooperating teachers. Teaching practice also allows students teachers to develop and use the teaching and learning materials relevant to pre-school learners. It also offers a chance for student teachers to solve real classroom and school environment based problems as well as working harmoniously with children, parents and the entire community.
In this course, I will guide you through the exciting journey of discovering how creativity and innovation shape the entrepreneurial mindset. Together, we’ll explore how imagination, exploration, and creation—whether inspired by art, music, design, or technology—can become powerful tools for building entrepreneurial skills and attitudes.
You will learn to recognize opportunities, shape them into viable ventures, and develop the confidence to lead and build effective teams. We’ll focus on creating both economic value and social value, so that your ideas don’t just succeed in the marketplace, but also make a meaningful difference in society.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
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Spot opportunities and assess their feasibility.
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Develop business models that are creative and sustainable.
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Build and lead teams with confidence.
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Coordinate resources—physical, human, and financial—to bring your ideas to life.
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Deliver customer satisfaction in innovative ways.
This course is not just about learning theories—it’s about practicing the entrepreneurial personality: being imaginative, resilient, and action-oriented. My goal is for you to finish with the mindset and skills to turn your ideas into ventures that matter.
Students-teachers will be introduced to emergent literacy. This course intends to use indigenous knowledge and practices to foster language and literacy skills. Student-teachers will be exposed to critical analysis of grammatical structures, functions and usage in Sesotho sentences.
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In this course, you will be introduced to the four language communication skills,, grammatical structure, analysis and construction of texts. You will further be exposed to phonological awareness, phonics, children's literature, reading and writing. In addition, this Course intents to expose you to indigenous knowledge systems.
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Management of ECD centers is a course that will enable to understand how centers are established, registered and managed.
The course covers procedures for establishing and
managing IECCD centres, skills of educational management, organisational
structure of IECCD in Lesotho.
The course is intended to equip student-teachers with skills to
develop approaches towards learning, culture and heritage as the
domains of development. It further covers introduction to
physical education, music and arts in early childhood.
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The course intends to introduce student-teachers to language development for effective listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in young children. It fosters development of basic language and communication skills - both verbal and non-verbal through the use of play, games and other child centred activities. It will also foster appreciation of literature and reading of first and second language. The course further equips student-teachers with appropriate teaching strategies for language acquisition and development of pre-reading and pre-writing skills.
The course aims at promoting acquisition of life skills, values and attitudes for positive
behavior formation change.
This course is intended to exposes you to teaching approaches at early childhood level
(thematic and play) with integration of ICT in teaching and learning. You will also deal with the use of indigenous knowledge and practices in teaching and learning of young children. You will be equipped with skills to develop
and store educational materials. The course also guide you develop knowledge and skills for preparing scheme of work and lesson plans.
Finally you will be equipped with assessment skills.
The course is designed to expose student-teachers to learning theories in the teaching and learning of numeracy and implementation of ECCD curriculum (grade 0 – R). The course will also cover indigenous knowledge and how to use traditional folklore while teaching young children, as well as introduction to research in mathematics.
Welcome to this course, please be aware that we are all expected to take part in all the activities given in the course.
This course is intended to equip you with skills to create activities that will stimulate and develop children’s science and numeracy abilities. You should be able to use child centred teaching methods and activities that promote development of five areas of numeracy and scientific concepts and process skills through the use of play, games and indigenous methods.
Welcome to third year semester 1 music course. We are going to build this course on what we covered in our first year. Hope you all will enjoy.
Welcome to third year semester 1 music course. We are going to build this course on what we covered in our first year. Hope you all will enjoy.
This course is a continuation and building on the work done in year one. It is designed to provide an overview of the teaching and learning of Art & Crafts in Primary Schools, including how to improvise teaching resources, ICT and art; and integration of Art with other subjects. It will explore the place of Art in child development where children of between 2 and 9 years practice art. The course will also build confidence in practical production from available raw-materials to create Teaching aids and disseminating those experiences to pupils in the schools.
This is a third year music course for DEP III students enrolled for the year 2021.
The course focuses on providing trainees with basic theoretical knowledge of Art and Crafts. This course is designed to introduce student teachers to the following: General introduction to the course; What is Art and crafts; self expression of what one thinks, smells, hears, dreams; a way a person expresses his /her sense of beauty in all forms of art eg. Drama, music, dancing and functional art; Classification of art and crafts ; Classified into two main categories; 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional art. Terminologies of art and crafts. Various art and crafts terms are discussed with student-teachers as new language. Characteristics of an art teacher ; the teacher has love for the subject; understanding children's developmental stages and growth; flexibility and receptive, interpretation and evaluation. Importance of teaching art and crafts in schools ; Unique intellectual development; physical coordination aesthetic awareness; joy and good habits etc. creativity and entrepreneurial: reflections on the Integrated curriculum ; Uses of available resources and sustainability; skills in raising money from artefacts. History of Art and culture of Basotho (past and present).Visual culture and theories on African arts; African beliefs - Religion; Ancestorship; the soul; underworld ; death; ghost; animals and trees; rock and cave art; Influence of other cultures on Basotho culture. Teaching methodologies: Overview of teaching and learning of art and crafts in schools; Improvisation and teaching resources on sustainable development. Colour theory and practical: Primary; secondary and tertiary colours: cool and warm colours; neutral colours. Practical creative abilities: collage, painting and modelling.
This course explores the transitional processes from being a student to a novice
teacher. It prepares student-teachers to be confident, courteous professionals who can present themselves in their place of work. The course provides fundamental knowledge and skills necessary for creating a conducive environment for effective teaching and learning. It aims at developing awareness of what it entails to be a professional educator. Furthermore, students’ understanding of the challenges associated with being a professional educator and how they can tackle them will be explored.
This is for DES students due for August to December 2026 TP
This course is for student teachers due for TP from August 2026 to December 2026.
The aim of this course is to foster a comprehensive understanding of various office applications at
intermediate and advanced computer skills levels, impart practical office applications skills and point out
the important role these applications play in primary education system today. The course is also intended to
help learners become competent, responsible and critical users of Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) by making efficient, effective and creative use of basic software and hardware in their everyday
classroom activities. Internet services and web tools for education are explored in this course so as to
develop learner’s essential social skills for co-operative and collaborative learning by using Information and
Technologies such as Social Media and Learning Management Systems (LMS). Learners will individually
or in groups, work on projects for classroom teaching and learning.
Computer Appreciation is an introductory course that equips students with essential knowledge and practical skills in computer literacy and digital technologies. The course covers fundamental concepts of computer hardware and software, operating systems, file management, Internet and email usage, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and the use of Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Through interactive learning materials, practical exercises, discussions, quizzes, and assignments, students will develop the confidence to use computers effectively for academic, professional, and everyday tasks. The course also promotes responsible and ethical use of information and communication technologies, preparing learners for further studies and the demands of the modern digital workplace.
Computer Appreciation is an introductory course that equips students with essential knowledge and practical skills in computer literacy and digital technologies. The course covers fundamental concepts of computer hardware and software, operating systems, file management, Internet and email usage, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and the use of Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Through interactive learning materials, practical exercises, discussions, quizzes, and assignments, students will develop the confidence to use computers effectively for academic, professional, and everyday tasks. The course also promotes responsible and ethical use of information and communication technologies, preparing learners for further studies and the demands of the modern digital workplace.
PHYSICAL AND HEALTH EDUCATION 2 COURSE COVERS TOPICS ON FIRST AID,SPORTS MANAGEMENT,ADAPTED PHYSICAL EDUCATION,RECREATION AND PRINCIPLES OF TRAINING AND CONDITIONING.
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This course introduces computer concepts to students at a basic level. Topics include computer terminology, history, uses and types of computers, word processing and introduction to the internet.
The aim of this course is to introduce basic computer concepts and use to students. It covers computer hardware and software fundamentals (including the use of Windows Operating System), key productivity applications such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, with Microsoft Office recent package. Internet, web searching strategies, online communities and e-mailing systems are some of the topics that will be dealt with in this course. The students will develop basic computer skills to help them with college and workforce readiness.
This course will guide learners through the key ICT skills and
concepts that they will need to effectively use in their teaching
practice. The course will also provide skills to enable teaching and
learning professionals to start engaging in the pedagogical effective
use of ICT to support and enhance teaching, learning and assessment
in the classroom.
The aim of this course is to introduce basic computer concepts and use to students. It covers computer hardware and software fundamentals (including the use of Windows Operating System), key productivity applications such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, with Microsoft Office recent package. Internet, web searching strategies, online communities and e-mailing systems are some of the topics that will be dealt with in this course. The students will develop basic computer skills to help them with college and workforce readiness.
The course is aimed at equipping you with sound knowledge, understanding of basic concepts of science that will enable you to teach these concepts to pre-school and foundation phase learner
This course is designed to help you as a student-teacher gain both the content knowledge and teaching strategies needed for mathematics in the foundation phase. You will explore topics such as number patterns and statistics to ensure you understand the essential concepts to teach at grades 1-3. Alongside the content, you will be guided through the introduction to mathematics teaching in the foundation phase and exposed to contemporary teaching methods that will strengthen your ability to engage young learners effectively
This course aims to empower young people with skills necessary to cope life challenges
Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Welcome to the course CSE-118PSE. Enjoy the content.
Welcome to the course CSE-118PSE. Enjoy the content.
This course is about CSE online training teachers for in-service and secondary teachers. It offers flexibility and accessibility, access to resources. it has interactive content
Comprehensive sexuality education in-service
Comprehensive sexuality education in-service