Module EDUS3361: ENGLISH FOR PRIMARY TEACHING 4: ENGLISH FOR SPECIALISTS

Department: Education [Queen's Campus, Stockton]

EDUS3361: ENGLISH FOR PRIMARY TEACHING 4: ENGLISH FOR SPECIALISTS

Prerequisites

• English for Primary Teaching 2 (EDUS2541).

Corequisites

• None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None.

Aims

• To deepen and extend students' knowledge and understanding of the role of the subject co-ordinator within primary school, to develop an understanding of how to work with colleagues effectively to support them in the teaching of English in the primary school.

Content

• Conceptions of English, language across the curriculum, visual literacy, writing and writers, English and progression.
• Planning and delivering in-service sessions for peers, planning and justifying a range of broad practical initiatives in primary English (e.g. book weeks, author visits, story sacks, story tellers, 'curiosity kits' for non fiction).

Learning Outcomes

• knowledge of how different conceptions of English (e.g. as an arts subject, as a mode of communication, as training in literacy) can determine the way the subject is taught in schools
• understand the theoretical background to and current debates about literacy across the curriculum
• development of English policies, e.g. plan a policy for literacy across the curriculum in the primary school
• theoretical justification for a range of broad practical initiatives in primary English (e.g. book week, author visits, story sacks, story tellers, 'curiosity kits' for non fiction)

• plan, design and deliver presentation which will help others develop their understanding of the teaching of an aspect of English in the primary school
• observe, record and relate educational practice to theory in relation to primary English.

• communicate ideas, principles and theories effectively in written form;
• manage time and work to deadlines;
• construct and sustain a reasoned argument;
• evaluate and make use of information from a variety of primary and secondary sources.

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

• The course will be delivered through weekly workshops integrating lecture input with student participation in specific tasks including fieldwork designed to promote analysis and discussion.
• All learning outcomes can be assessed by a composite written assignment.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Group Presentation: Assessment of a child's piece of writing. This relates directly to the summative assignment.

■ 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