Education & Teaching
Design and Communication Technology Education
Design and Communication Technology Education trains you to teach technical drawing, design communication, and visual technical skills at the basic and junior high school level. You'll help students learn to express technical ideas visually, an important foundation for further study in engineering, construction, and design fields.
Program objectives
- 01Build foundational knowledge in technical drawing and design communication.
- 02Learn to teach design and communication technology effectively to junior high school students.
- 03Understand how to design hands-on, visual technical lessons for younger learners.
- 04Get hands-on teaching practice through supervised school placements.
Why choose this program
Builds a foundational skill for many technical careers
Technical drawing and design communication underpin engineering, construction, and design fields, making early exposure genuinely valuable.
A distinctive, visually-oriented teaching specialization
If you enjoy both teaching and visual/technical communication, this program lets you build a career combining both.
Trained at Ghana's leading TVET teacher education institution
AAMUSTED (formerly UEW-Kumasi) has decades of specific experience training technical education teachers for this level.
Skills you'll build
- Technical drawing and design communication fundamentals
- Design technology teaching pedagogy for junior high level
- Hands-on, visual lesson design
- Assessment of practical design learning
- Clear, age-appropriate explanation ability
- Patience with younger learners
- Creativity in visual lesson design
- Classroom management
Tools & software
- Technical drawing tools and basic design software for classroom demonstration
- Educational technology for design teaching
Challenges to expect
Academic
- Combines foundational design and technical drawing knowledge with the specific skill of teaching it to younger students.
Technical
- Teaching precise technical drawing skills to junior high students requires patience and careful, age-appropriate technique.
Tips from the field
- Focus on making technical drawing feel accessible and engaging for junior high students -- this level of teaching is about building interest and foundational skill, not professional-level precision.
- Get comfortable with both traditional hand-drawing techniques and basic digital design tools, since both remain relevant in modern technical education.
- Take your teaching placements seriously; real classroom experience with younger learners teaches things theory alone cannot.
Career paths
- Design and communication technology teacher (JHS)
- Basic school technology coordinator
- Curriculum developer (junior high technology education)
- Technical education outreach coordinator
Where you can study this
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FAQs
What age group will I be teaching?+
This program prepares you specifically to teach design and communication technology concepts at the junior high school (JHS) level.
Do I need strong artistic drawing skills?+
Not artistic drawing specifically -- the focus is on precise technical drawing and design communication, which is a learnable, structured skill rather than free artistic expression.
Do I need to pass a licensing exam to teach?+
Yes, like other education graduates, you'll need to pass the Ghana Teacher Licensure Exam (GTLE) and register with the National Teaching Council.
Where can I study this in Ghana?+
AAMUSTED (Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development), formerly UEW-Kumasi, offers this Bachelor of Education program in Kumasi.
Will this program help me if I want to pursue architecture-related teaching later?+
Yes, the technical drawing and design communication foundation built here connects well with further specialization in construction or architectural technology education.
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