Module EDUC47800: Professional Studies and School Based Practice (Primary)

Department: Education

EDUC47800: Professional Studies and School Based Practice (Primary)

Prerequisites

• None

Corequisites

• None

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• To be awarded qualified Qualified teacher Teacher status Status (QTS), students must provide evidence for and pass the Teachers’ Standards (DfE, 2012).

Content

• The Teachers’ Standards define the minimum level of practice expected of trainees and teachers from the point of being awarded (QTS). The Teachers’ Standards are used to assess all trainees working towards QTS. Students will be required to complete school-based training and for the required number of days, as per DfE regulations.

Learning Outcomes

• Build and strengthen key skills, knowledge and understanding of the key elements underpinning the Primary National Curriculum;
• Build and strengthen methods and approaches suited to the effective planning, organisation and management of the primary curriculum, teaching and learning and assessment;
• Development of key pedagogical content knowledge;
• Build and strengthen an understanding of the issues involved in ensuring the effective provision for all children when teaching and learning.

• Build and strengthen knowledge and understandings of safeguarding;
• Set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge pupils;
• Promote good progress and outcomes by pupils;
• Demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge;
• Plan and teach well-structured lessons;
• Adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all pupils;
• Make accurate and productive use of assessment;
• Manage behaviour effectively to ensure a good and safe learning environment;
• Fulfil wider professional responsibilities;
• Demonstrate consistently high standards of personal and professional conduct and behaviours.

• 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;
• 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

• Lectures, seminars, Intensive Training and Practice (ITaPs), Teacher Learning Days (TLD) and placement days will be used as appropriate to support students in developing their understanding of and ability to fulfil the professional responsibilities of a teacher.
• Students will attend the DfE required number of school-based practice days, and provide evidence of successful progress, in order to be awarded QTS.
• There will be a portfolio of evidence mapped to the Teachers’ Standards (PebblePad). There will be a second summative portfolio of evidence mapping school based professional practice against the Teachers’ Standards. Both elements of assessment must be passed to pass the module. Assessment is Pass/Fail only.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

School-based professional practice interim assessment of progress against the Teachers' Standards.

■ Students who do not attend monitored activities shown under Teaching Methods and Learning Hours, or who fail to complete the summative or formative assessment(s) specified above, may be subject to the Academic Progress procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University.