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Programme and Module Handbook

Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2026-2027

Module EDUC2010: School-based Practice in Primary Education 2

Department: Education

EDUC2010: School-based Practice in Primary Education 2

Type Tied Level 2 Credits 0 Availability Available in 2026/2027 Module Cap Location Durham
Tied to X101
Tied to X102
Tied to X103

Prerequisites

  • None

Corequisites

  • None

Excluded Combination of Modules

  • None

Aims

  • To develop and strengthen 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;
  • Develop and strengthen behaviour management in the primary classroom;
  • Develop and strengthen knowledge, understanding and practice in, pedagogy; the primary curriculum; assessment in primary education; adaptive teaching and inclusion;
  • Build and strengthen teacher professional behaviours;
  • Build and strengthen knowledge and understandings of safeguarding

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:
  • 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.
Subject-specific Skills:
  • 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.
Key Skills:
  • 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 10 Fieldwork Days, 4 Serial Days, and 6 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 will evidence sustained 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

Activity Number Frequency Duration Total/Hours Attendance Monitored
Lectures 12 6 per week, twice a year 1 hour 12 Yes
Seminars 24 12 per week, twice a year 1 hour 24 Yes
Placement 4 2 twice a year 1 day (7hours) 28 Yes
Fieldwork 10 Weekly Term 1 1 day (7 hours) 70 Yes
Placement 4 4 in Term 2 1 day (7 hours) 28 Yes
Placement 1 Daily for 6 weeks Monday-Friday 203 Yes
Total 365

Summative Assessment

Component: Professional Practice Component Weighting: 100%
Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
Portfolio Assessed throughout the year 50%
Portfolio Assessed throughout the year 50%

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.