Module EDUC1571: Foundation Subjects and School-based Practice 1

Department: Education

EDUC1571: Foundation Subjects and School-based Practice 1

Prerequisites

• None.

Corequisites

• None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None.

Aims

• To begin to develop students' knowledge and understanding of:
• teaching, learning and assessment in the primary classroom;
• teaching and learning in foundation subjects;
• the Teachers’ Standards, the ITTECF and approaches needed to fulfil these; 
• the development of professional identity;
• safeguarding in primary education.

Content

• Establishing high expectations;
• Promoting good progress;
• Introduction to behaviour management in the primary classroom;
• Introduction to pedagogy;
• Introduction to adaptive teaching;
• Introduction to the primary curriculum;
• Introduction to assessment in primary education;
• Developing teacher professional behaviours;
• Building knowledge and understandings of safeguarding;
• Introduction to the foundation subject curriculum and pedagogies.

Learning Outcomes

• Methods and approaches suited to the effective planning, organisation and management of the primary curriculum, teaching and learning;
• Development of pedagogic content knowledge;
• Key ideas underpinning the Primary National Curriculum;
• Key ideas underpinning the foundation subjects curriculum;

• To be able to reflect on own value systems and development;
• To communicate understandings about teaching in primary education;
• To observe, record and triangulate educational practice to theory in primary schools and classrooms.

• Demonstrate and reflect on professional behaviours as required in the ITTECF and the Teachers’ Standards;
• Think critically and independently;
• Work effectively, both independently and as part of a team, on given tasks and activities;
• Communicate ideas, principles and theories effectively in written and oral form;
• Construct and sustain a reasoned argument;
• Evaluate and make use of information from a variety of primary and secondary sources;
• Work collaboratively with peers;
• Engage in peer- and self-assessment;
• Manage time and work to deadlines.

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

• Workshops, enrichment days, lectures, seminars, tutorials, intensive training and placement days (ITaPs) will be used as appropriate to support students in developing their understanding of and ability to fulfil the professional responsibilities of a teacher.
• All learning outcomes will be assessed appropriately via the assignment.
• Student must attend School Placement days comprising 11 Serial Days, 24 Block Placement days, and 4 ITAP days.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Formative feedback for a skeleton plan of the poster assignment (up to 300 words) will be provided through written feedback.

■ 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