Module EDUS1681: PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC STUDY SKILLS

Department: Education [Queen's Campus, Stockton]

EDUS1681: PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC STUDY SKILLS

Prerequisites

• None.

Corequisites

• None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None.

Aims

• To develop students' knowledge and understanding of:
• the professional skills needed for effective classroom management
• strategies for behaviour management
• strategies for promoting children's learning
• the scholarly skills needed for successful academic study and their development as reflective practitioners.

Content

• The module consists of two skills based themes:
• A range of professional issues related to QTS
• The necessary academic study skills and capabilities underpinning independent academic studies.
• Professional:
• A range of professional issues related to QTS:
• planning an effective learning experience in the primary classroom
• effective classroom management in the primary classroom
• effective approaches to differentiation
• appreciating the roles and value of formative and summative assessment in the classroom
• behaviour management
• contemporary resources available in the primary classroom
• Academic:
• Relevant academic study skills, practices and professionalism:
• management of information from a wide range of e-based and literary sources
• effective academic skills such as time management
• identifying appropriate sources of information and evidence
• critical evaluation, formalizing arguments and discriminatory skills
• effectively communicating ideas and findings

Learning Outcomes

• Professional Study Skills:
• knowledge of effective planning and management of classroom based activities
• knowledge of how to match activities appropriately to children's individual capabilities
• understand the relationship between planning, differentiation and assessment
• knowledge of the appropriate use of classroom resources.
• Academic Study Skills:
• knowledge of the process and principles of searching appropriate literary sources and data bases for relevant information
• an understanding of how theories, paradigms and ideas are analysed and evaluated
• an understanding of the principles of academic argumentation.

• the translation of the theory and principles of effective classroom planning and management into practice
• discriminate between salient and minor issues and themes within the context of primary education
• application of matching activities appropriately to children's individual capabilities in the classroom context
• an ability to select the most appropriate resources for classroom use.

• make appropriate use of academic and professional resources
• construct written arguments and evaluate those of others
• construct and sustain a reasoned argument
• manage time and work to deadlines
• communicate ideas, principles and theories effectively in written form
• searching appropriate literary sources and data bases for relevant information.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Teaching methods will include lectures and directed tasks related to school based experience or independent study skills. These will allow for the learning outcomes to be addressed. The lectures will focus on specific issues related to both professional and academic development.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Academic Studies - Framework for written essay on given topic.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University