Module EDUC3010: School-based Practice in Primary Education 3

Department: Education

EDUC3010: School-based Practice in Primary Education 3

Prerequisites

• None

Corequisites

• None

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• To consolidate and extend 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;
• Consolidate and extend behaviour management in the primary classroom;
• Consolidate and extend knowledge, understanding and practice in, pedagogy; the primary curriculum; assessment in primary education; adaptive teaching and inclusion;
• Consolidate and extend teacher professional behaviours;
• Consolidate and extend 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 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;
• 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 one 9-week Placement and one 6-week Wider Professional Responsibility (WPR) 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 evidence mapped to the Teachers’ Standards. The second will assess School based professional practice: summative assessment against the Teachers’ Standards.
• 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 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.