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Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2017-2018 (archived)

Module EDUS1681: PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC STUDY SKILLS

Department: Education [Queen's Campus, Stockton]

EDUS1681: PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC STUDY SKILLS

Type Tied Level 1 Credits 20 Availability Available in 2017/18 Module Cap Location Queen's Campus Stockton
Tied to X101

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 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
  • Some of the 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
  • Academic:
  • Relevant academic study skills, practices and professionalism:
  • management of information from a wide range of e-based and literary sources
  • identifying appropriate sources of information and evidence

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:
  • Professional Study Skills:
  • knowledge of effective planning and management of classroom based activities
  • understand the relationship between planning, differentiation and assessment
  • Academic Study Skills:
  • knowledge of the process and principles of searching appropriate literary sources and data bases for relevant information
Subject-specific Skills:
Key Skills:
  • make appropriate use of academic and professional resources
  • 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

Activity Number Frequency Duration Total/Hours
Lectures 20 Weekly 1 hour 20
Directed tasks Each week Term 1, total 22.5, Term 2, total 7.5 30
Preparation and reading school based tasks Each week Term 1, total 90, Term 2, total 60 150
Total 200

Summative Assessment

Component: Written Assignment Component Weighting: 50%
Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
Written Assignment 2,000 words 100%
Component: Learning Logs/Literature Search Component Weighting: 50%
Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
Summary of Reflective Logs 2000 words 100%

Formative Assessment:

Task: Planning Task

■ 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