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FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION IN GHANA FEB 2020

03/13/2022 (updated 01/07/2026) Published by

SECTION B : ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION (10 MARKS)

  1. Under the new teacher education program in the Colleges of Education in Ghana, trainee teachers would be awarded with………….degree upon completion of the program
  2. I am often part of the degree courses for teachers. I am included in teaching portfolios, I can be modified overtime. I summarize points of view on educational and teaching styles one uses. Who am I?………
  3. The first educational review committee formed after post-independence was……….educational committee
  4. The first missionary school to have attempted teacher education in Gold Coast was ………..
  5. Under the new teacher education program, what is the minimum qualification of teachers in Ghana?
  6. The level at which senior high schools was placed in the 2019 educational reforms is…….
  7. The curriculum of the castle schools was described as the 3Rs. These stands for?…………
  8. The acquisition of knowledge, skills and values to be useful to onself and the society is termed……….
  9. The job or profession that someone does for long period in their life is known as……
  10. What is the full meaning of the acronym NTS………..

SECTION C: ANSWER ANY TWO (2) QUESTIONS OF YOUR CHOICE IN THIS SECTION (10 marks Each)

  1. Identify any four (4) key philosopher of the Accelerated Development Plan of 1951 and show how they influenced education delivery in Ghana
  2. Critically, examine five(5) ways through which people abuse technology in the 21st Century.
  3. As a student teacher you have been introduced to the conceptions about inclusion. With that knowledge in mind , with specific examples, explain any five (5) strategies you will adopt to promote inclusion in your class as a practicing teacher.
  4. a. Enumerate any four (4) post-independence education reforms in Ghana     b. Explain any four (4) provisions of the Anamuah Mensah Committee’s Report.


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SSTVET

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SECTION B: ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION (10 MARKS)

  1. The art and practice of planning and projecting ideas and experiences with visual and textual content is referred to as………..
  2. An expert in agricultural practices, with the aim of increasing crop yield and profit is known as……..
  3. Individuals who pretend to be what they are not are described as persons with ………….
  4. The belief in one’s capabilities to organize and execute the course of action required to manage prospective situations is termed………
  5. The art or process of forming decorative designs with hand or machine needle is termed …………….
  6. Sportsmanship is categorized as a ………………
  7. Individuals who derive pleasure by causing pain to others are referred to as………
  8. A person who studies the content and growth of food and how it helps the body to grow is referred to as…………..
  9. The family of Mr. Keke include his wife, their two biological daughters and a son from Mr. Keke’s previous marriage. This is referred as…………
  10. The aspect of technical skills that involves the application of physics to design circuits using transistors and microchips is referred to as………

SECTION C : ANSWER ANY TWO (2) QUESTIONS OF YOUR CHOICE IN THIS SECTION. EACH QUESTION CARRY A MAXIMUM OF 10 MARKS

  1. (a) Distinguish between core values and core competence                            (b) Give two (2) reasons each to justify the inclusion of core values and core competences in the basic school curriculum.
  2. (a) Identify four (4) areas of the economy in your  community that are benefiting from technological advancements.                                    (b)Explain with three(3) points how technological advancement has contributed to the development of the community.
  3. (a) Explain the term “entrepreneurship”.                                                            (b) Discuss four (4) qualities of an entrepreneur
  4. Explain five (5) ways Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) can contribute to the realization of the Ghana Beyond Aid Agenda (GBAA)


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Intro To Integrated Science I

03/13/2022 (updated 01/07/2026) Published by

EBC 113: Introduction to Integrated Science I

Time Allowed :2 hours

Instructions:

1. Attempts All questions in sections A and B and Two(2) in section C.

2. Each question is followed by four options, A-D.

4. The total marks for this paper is 40.

SECTION A : (CLICK TAKE QUIZ)

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SECTION B : PROVIDE SHORT ANSWER FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS (EACH ANSWER CARRIES 1 MARKS)

  1. A couple is a system of two parallel and equal but opposite…………………that do not act along the same line.
  2. Maame Adwowa often sits under trees to study quietly so as to be able to retain what is taught her in school. This learning habit could be described as……..
  3. Self-reflective ideas and beliefs about teaching and learning that are found among a student-teacher’s portfolio are known as one’s…………
  4. The law of motion which led to classical mechanics was propounded by …………….
  5. A belief or an idea that is incorrect because it is based on faulty thinking and understanding is termed…………
  6. In the study of science, when a misbelief, semi-truth or falsehood is perpetuated as a scientific fact, it is known as………..
  7. The main life process that separates living things from non-living things is………..
  8. frictional force in fluids is known as …………..
  9. Amina once told her students that science is made meaningful if nature is critically investigated. She added that the step by step process involved could lead to a discovery. in your mind, what was the science teacher telling her students to employ in their study of science?
  10. During a Science lesson…

SECTION C : Answer any two questions from this section (20 marks)

  1. a. Distinguish between tangible and intangible products of science ( 4 marks ) b. Give two examples each of the tangible and intangible products ( 2 marks)
  2. c. Group the following forces into contact and field forces; ( 4 marks) i. Magnetic Force ii. Frictional force iii. Electrostatic force iv tensional force
  3. Discuss four ways in which science has contributed to peace in our society (4 marks). b. Kofi Kum is alive because he can perform all the life processes. State three of these processes and explain them in a sentence each (6 marks)

4 a. What is Portfolio? (2 marks)

b. Give the meaning of the annotation in the basic science curriculum: B3.2.4.1.2 ( 2 marks)

c. Define the following in relation to earth movement

i. Rotation

ii. Revolution

iii. Leap year (1×3 marks)

d. Explain why solids have fixed shapes. 3 marks

5. Explain the term ‘first aid’ 3(marks)

b. List four items that must be in a first aid box. (4 marks)

c. Explain the following process skills of science

i. Classifying

ii. Measuring

iii. Communication (1X 3 marks)

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PEDAGOGY : INCLUSIVE SCHOOL BASED ENQUIRY

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SECTION B: PROVIDE SHORT ANSWERS FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS (EACH ANSWER CARRIES 1MARK)

  1. List any two (2) tools for data collection in school
  2. The system of education where social barriers are removed to give equal access, equal opportunity and equal participation to all learners is termed……
  3. A behavior modification technique that involves temporary separating a learner from an activity when he/she has engaged in an unacceptable behavior is called……
  4. In participant observation, the observer performs the duties of: participating, observing and …….
  5. The creative activity that allows learners to gain first-hand knowledge and experience away from the classroom is termed……..
  6. The main purpose for using work sample analysis is to identify………
  7. The method of breaking down long-term objective into simple teachable and learnable units is termed……..
  8. A compilation of academic work and other forms of education evidence assembled for the purpose of reviewing and evaluating of student’s performance is termed….
  9. I am made up of description of a learner’s behavior in a particular environmental setting, an interpretation of the behavior by the observer, written descriptions and a recommendation for the future action on the incidence and its interpretation. Who am I?……….
  10. The breaking down of learning activities into smaller teachable bits to facilitate learning is called………

SECTION C: ANSWER ANY TWO(2) QUESTIONS FROM THIS SECTION (20 MARKS)

  1. Explain the concept ‘observation’ (2.5 marks) .                                                  b. Ms. Opoku is a teacher at the Aseibu D/A Primary School. Describe the processes that she will follow to gather her data (7.5 marks).
  2. With your experience in Supported Teaching in Schools (STS), state and explain five (5) learning barriers that learners face during the learning process.                                                                                                                         b. Explain how these barriers can be removed.
  3.  a. In your own words, explain the term “hearing impairment”.                         b. State and explain five (5) behaviors that learners with hearing impairment exhibit in class.
  4. What is meant by the term “Creative Approach in Teaching”?                          b. Explain five (5) creative approaches in teaching that you would use to address the learning needs of your students/learners 


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INTRO TO LANGUAGE AND LITERACY

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UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, WINNEBA

INSTITUTE FOR TEACHER EDUCATION AND CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT(ITECPD) 4-YR B.Ed IN UPPER PRIMARY, EARLY GRADE, AND JHS EDUCATION

Index number :

NAME OF COLLEGE :

  1. SECTION B : ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS IN THE THIS SECTION (10 MARKS)
  2. What is Mutual intelligibility?
  3. The use of inflectional and derivational morphemes in children’s word formation is a sign of…………
  4. The stage in literacy development where the learner is exposed to letters and sounds he/she makes well as printed materials is referred to as………
  5. What is the full meaning of the abbreviation LAD……..
  6. The type of bilingual education that makes the child
  7. The feature that makes language capable of novel utterance is…….
  8. The L1 acquisition stage in which children string lexical morphemes in a phrase is known as ….
  9. The type of bilingual education that socializes the child from the home language to a foreign language is……
  10. The linguistic  feature that makes speakers of two languages not to understand one another is known as…….
  11. Identify the three types of language policy  (1 mark each 3×1=3  from 11 to a to c) 
  12.  a……………………..         b ……………….         c …………….

SECTION C: ANSWER ANY TWO (2) QUESTIONS OF YOUR CHOICE IN THIS SECTION 
1. a, What is literacy in relation to language?  (2 marks)
  b. List and explain two (2) misconceptions and biases about language and literacy (4 marks)
  c. Explain two (2) ways the misconceptions and biases mentioned above can be addressed. (4 marks)
 
2. a. What is language planning? (1 marks)
  b. What is language policy
  c.  What are the stages involved in language planning (8 marks: 2 each for well- explained)
 
3. a. What is language policy? (2 marks)
b. Discuss two (2) problems associated with language policy implementations in Ghana (4 marks)
c. Discuss how the two problems discussed (b) above can be addresses.
 
4. a. What is literacy in relation to language ? (2 marks)
b. List and explain two (2) misconceptions and biases about language and literacy. (4 marks)
c. Explain two (2) ways the misconceptions and biases mentioned above can be addressed . (4 marks)

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Supported Teaching in School Semester 1 Level 100

03/06/2022 (updated 01/07/2026) Published by

STS First Semester Observation Report

During my first semester in College, I was posted to a District Authority Basic School and assigned to Basic 9 Class to observe as part of my training as a teacher.

On the February 8, 2021 at 09:30am we arrived at the assigned school. I was in a group with other colleagues. We were supposed to be at the school premises before 0800am. But on that faithful day, we had a transportation issue with the school bus.

When we arrived at the school premises, we went straight to the head teacher’s office and we introduced ourselves to the only teacher in the room at that moment, he then introduced himself as the headmaster. He further went on and took us to where the teachers are seated. He introduced us to the teachers as the trainees who will be observing classroom teaching in their various classes. The teachers introduced themselves and we were assigned to each teachers based on the classes they teach. The teachers are now our mentors and that made us mentees. The head mentor then is the head teacher.

The headmaster again continued his tour with us and took us round the school premises. He pointed out the various properties of the school. After touring the campus, He told us the history of the school, the rules governing the school and the school management committee. The school indeed had won various award in sport activities.

On the second visit which was on the 15th of February, 2021 we were taken through the school’s teaching and learning materials. It was at the school premises that most of us saw the new curriculum. The teaching and learning materials that were displayed to us were, Teacher’s Profile, Teacher’s Movement Book, Teacher’s Guide, Teacher’s Resources Pack, and various pupils’ course books. We took note of all these artefacts.

On the third visit, 22nd of February, 2021 we joined our mentors in their respective classrooms to observe classroom presentation, how they introduce lesson, how they employed classroom management techniques etc. we actually had in our hands a check list to take note of all the activities that goes on in classroom. So it was interesting and intriguing to have a checklist of all these activities that goes on in classrooms teaching happening right in your presence.

On our fourth visit, 1st of March, 2021, we were mandated to observe the Professional Traits of Teachers. I had realized that my mentor and his colleagues were punctual throughout or visits, my mentor was very cordial with the pupils in delivering his lesson, He is well dressed and he even ensured that the pupils dress well and wear noise mask while he was teaching. These Supported Teaching in School program has helped me to have first hand experience of how teaching and learning is done in schools. The program has really exposed me to the field of teaching and enhanced upon my confidence in  pursuit to be a professional teacher

It all comes down to techniques: When it comes to learning the right way.

03/04/2022 (updated 01/07/2026) Published by

At colleges, it requires a little more effort to learn effectively and earn good CGPA, even with the help of learning style, strategies  and techniques. They do, however, need a little more work than the memorizing. Learning styles, however, have one advantage: they are functional and effective.

“Until I’m genuinely under pressure, I can’t really learn.” “I just study all night before the exam because the information is still fresh.” “I’m a night owl who can’t concentrate during the day because there’s too much going on.” It’s funny: even the best pupils revert to myth and legend when it comes to learning. Educators and psychologists working in the field of learning have developed some fantastic tools over the years.

  • Understand Who You Are: Are You A Night Owl? Knowing who you are helps you to learn effectively. Are you the type that learn effectively at night whiles everybody is at sleep and the chirping sound of the crickets creating that natural rural ambient atmosphere for easy absorption of contents ?. Or you are the type that would like a hot cup of coffee by your side while you try to assimilate each topic?. Well you can adopt any of these strategies known to you, burn the mid night candle throughout the night but still feel lost, confused and stressed up, if you don’t apply the right learning style. When you know the learning style that best work for you, your learning becomes fun to you. At our stage we are well informed of these learning styles. The Visual, Auditory, Reading and Kinesthetic (VARK ) Style of learning is one best method of learning known to us. When you know where you fit best in these learning style it is easy for you to set and choose the best environment that suit you. (We will explore each of these learning style that best fit you later).
  • Choose One Place For your Study. Are you the “sit on the dormitory bed” type of learner or the classroom room or the library learner? The dormitory type of learning often time comes with great distractions, with room mates chatting, playing games, door opening and closing. You can be focused at best but you know you can study effectively when you are in the study set-up environment- the classroom, library. Even when you don’t feel like studying once you realized that everyone around you is deep into their books, you are motivated to also study. It is good to sit at the same place to learn, it is one way of telling the brain I am here and ready to learn
  • Learn Effectively By Eliminating All Time Wasters. It is very difficult to do away with distraction particularly among the college students. The most common form of distraction now is mobile phone. Averagely every student has a at least 3 mobile apps that are distractive in anyways. This app could be social media, games et cetera. All these students belong to social and academic groups and every second you have to check your phone so not to miss any updates from the tutor or your course representation. This is actually a grieve distraction but necessary. Anyway, even in early days of social media that was in 2005, a research was conducted by A Learning Researcher Glenn Wilson of University of London. Two groups of participants were asked to work on a concentration test for study. One participant group was continuously inundated with new emails on their test screen. The other group who were stoned to utopia (high with marijuana) performed quite better than the group who were distracted with emails. Remember the research is not endorsing anyone to smoke marijuana neither is it telling us that marijuana can boost concentration (that is a Subject for Future Discussion) but rather to cut off any distraction if we really want to learn. In our case it is incessant distraction of social media messages.
  • Learn With Motivation Our system is design to maintain patterns in a long term and resistant to change, unless it is exposed to danger, or there is a reward of which one is mandated to part take in, that is according to a university psychologist Hans-Werner Rückert. You see, the possibility of writing an exam does not necessary and willingly urge one to study with joy. But we should thrive to move from I have to study for the exam to I just want to learn. When you are able to sit and learn continuously you should set clear goal for yourself, like “If I am able to understand a particular concept by my time-line without necessary memorizing every content I shall play my favourite video game.

Learn properly with learning phases

Ones learning period can be divided into stages:

a. The preparation stage, in which you get the books you want to study, find out the possible examination questions and sought the topic you want to study.

b. The main stage is the actual learning stage.

c. The revision stage is where you learn again what you had already learnt but forgotten

d. A review stage where you assess yourself and see if you can learn and recall everything you had learnt.

Before you get started, you should make a written calendar. Enter all lecture periods mostly from 07:00am to 04:00pm, within this lecture periods there may be free time, add any short study time for instance the topic you are about to be taught, after lecturing. After lecture hours add the subjects and topic you would like to study on your calendar. And stick to the calendar. At the end of each week schedule a time on your calendar and review everything you have learnt during the week. Always take a short break after an hour or less studies.

Most students try to learn every subject and attempt to assimilate too many materials at first on a given day. If you realised that you are not making progressive quickly in absorbing and understanding what you are learning, adjust your time management and plan the night to see how the following day will be like in terms of your daily extra curriculum activities, like cleaning and the rest. Attend to your individual tasks according to priority.

Breaks are very important when studying. There are different types of break in studying, Understanding Break of one to five minutes in which you have understood what you had learnt and you have become clear about the topic. Intermediate breaks are there to refresh you after about an hour or more studies, this break normally takes 15 to 20 minutes. Leave your study table, take a walk, eat or sip something light, attends to your personal needs. A short nap or siesta is recommended after long study like from 2 to 3 hours or more studies.

How Are English Sound Produced?

03/03/2022 (updated 01/07/2026) Published by

Really? Do We Have Anything Like English Sound. Sound is Sound Right?

I was taken aback when I first saw the question. My initial reaction was, “Ohh that is easy”. Once you can say any word in any language you are definitely producing a sound in that language, right ? Well that is quite correct, but for academic purpose and as an assignment which will surely contribute to you grade, One should be able to produce a convincing argument with the necessary facts back with research to support his answer. After all we are in tertiary, where you are urge to question everything and make your own contribution. Not just be a parrot doing copy and paste.

You will agree with me that sound is sound whether it is coming from an English speaker or German speaker etcetera. Any language that is spoken becomes a sound for that matter human sound (Speech Sound), et cetera and not a language sound. If a sound can be categorized as human sound , we sure do have animal sounds, vehicular sounds, et cetera or you can go ahead and name the rest.

For the purpose of this assignment, this is how I provided my answer to the question that led me to learn a lot about English and Oral Science (including biology) of making speech sound at the same time I revised my note on sounds and vibration within a few hours. First I recalled what sound is and it relationship with vibration. Then how human generate and perceive what sound speech is. From then you can fully understand sound in relation to language (English Sound).

So What is Sound?

Well for the general definition of sound as we all know, Sound is a form of energy which is produced as a result of movement of matter, or vibration of particles.

Speech sound produced orally by human comes about as a result of upward movement of air wave from the lungs to the throat. In the throat there is a wind pipe, on top this pipe is the voice box. The voice box is made up of two cords vertically aligned with a gap in between for passage of air when talking. When this air wave from the lungs hit the voice box, the cords can either vibrate by opening or closing in the process a speech sound is produced. The sound that is produced depends on number of factors such as the position of the tongue, the shape of the lips, how wide or narrow the voice cord is the voice box. These factors enhance the type of sound that is produced, that is high or low sound.

The larynx is an organ in the top of the neck of tetrapods involved in breathing, producing sound, and protecting the trachea against food aspiration

We can therefore have little knowledge about how language sound for that matter English sound are produced. The English language is made up of 26 letters called alphabets. When these letters are pronounced, they come out with their own unique sounds, courtesy the lungs, voice box, glottis, tongue, teeth and the shape of the lips. These sounds are group into what we called vowels and consonants speech sound. Since these sounds that are made are coming from a letter or combination of letters from the English alphabets, we can the say that English sounds are produced.

Again, since sound is universal, language experts and linguistic further research into making language sound more scientific and acceptable, Cardinal Vowel Chart was born , which serve as a guide and standard to measure how close language vowels and sound are related. That is why we have English Vowel chart.

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