Module EDUC1010: School-based Practice in Primary Education 1

Department: Education

EDUC1010: School-based Practice in Primary Education 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;
• 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; the primary curriculum; assessment in primary education; adaptive teaching and inclusion;
• Begin to build teacher professional behaviours;
• Begin to build knowledge and understandings of safeguarding.

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.

• To begin to reflect on own value systems and development;
• To begin 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;
• 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

• Enrichment days, Intensive Training and Practice (ITaPs) and serial 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.
• Intensive Training and Practice sessions (ITaPs) will consist of 12 Lectures, 24 Seminars, and 4 Placement Days. Students will also participate in 2 Fieldwork Days, 12 Serial Days, and 5 weeks of Placement.
• All learning outcomes will be assessed appropriately in school placements.
• Assessment will consist of 2 Portfolios; each marked as either PASS or FAIL. The first Portfolio will be a PebblePad portfolio which will evidence progress through the programme’s ITT curriculum and professional practice in school, drawing on a range of sources over time. Judgements will be made using the programme assessment framework descriptors. The second will assess School based professional practice: Professional conduct, safeguarding expectations, and fitness to practise requirements must be met.
• Student must attend school-based learning comprising of Serial Days, Block Placement days, and ITAP school days in order to meet the DfE required number of days needed to be awarded QTS at the end of the programme.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

School-based professional practice interim assessment of progress against the Professional 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.