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Postgraduate Module Descriptor

EDUM036: Secondary Education and Professional Studies

This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

The module introduces students to current thinking in Education and Professional Studies and develops students’ curricular, pedagogic and academic subject knowledge in the field of Secondary education.   Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

• Theories of learning and motivation;
• Psychology of teaching and learning;
• The curriculum;
• Educational ideology: What is education for?
• Talk about it: The role of talk in learning;
• Child and adolescent mental health;
• Cognitive neuroscience and learning: Addressing ‘neuromyths’;
• The impact of technology on learning;
• Challenging notions of ability, intelligence and potential;
• English as an Additional Language (EAL) 1: Understanding theories of additional language acquisition;
• EAL 2: Connecting theory and practice;
• Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) 1: Organisation and policy;
• SEND 2: Teaching and learning;
• Classroom and behaviour management;
• Do you know what they know? Assessment for learning and the use of data;
• Safeguarding and child protection;
• Addressing (in) equalities and overcoming potential barriers: Taking ethnicity and sexual orientation as examples;
• British values and the PREVENT strategy;
• Writing a literature review;
• Critically engaging with literature: Topical research;
• Evidence in education: What can RCTs tell you – and what they can’t;
• Ethics
• Research methods design for teacher research: Action research;
•  Research methods design for teacher research: Case study;
• Professional practice: Widening participation, Challenging the gap, Unseen children, Pupils from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, Pupil safeguarding, SEND code of practice, Pupil premium.

The above topics will be addressed in a variety of ways:

• Education and Professional Studies led input: a suite of online study materials which covers a range of topics relevant to your professional development as a Secondary teacher;
• Introduction to Research: a series of online study materials that will introduce you to the expectations of working at Masters level and of carrying out a small-scale, classroom-based research study; 
• Subject Seminars: will follow up and expand some of the Education and Professional Studies topics introduced in the Autumn term programme, in a subject-specific  context;
• Professional Studies seminars: will follow up Education and Professional Studies topics covered in the Autumn term programme, in a specific school context;
• Seminar Days: Five days when you will return to the university to share school-based work experiences and further develop the links between the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching. 

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

How this Module is Assessed

In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.

Formative Assessment

A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.

Summative Assessment

A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

Re-assessment

Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.

Re-assessment notes

If a submitted assignment is deemed to be a Fail, you will be given feedback outlining what needs to be done to bring the assignment to a pass standard and one opportunity for resubmission will be allowed.

You can choose to resubmit a failed assignment ‘in year’ (i.e. before the final PGCE Assessment, Progression and Awarding Committee (APAC) in July). The resubmission would normally be made 4 weeks after receiving feedback on the first submission. Alternatively, you may opt to go to the PGCE Assessment, Progression and Awarding Committee with the fail mark. You will then be referred to the College level Assessment, Progression and Awarding Committee who will confirm the conditions for resubmission of the work. Normally the resubmission should be by 1st September. You should discuss these options with your tutor.

Note: if you choose the second option, the award of PGCE will be delayed until the Assessment, Progression and Awarding Committee meeting following any successful resubmission (normally held in December).

If an assignment is deemed to be a Fail, the mark obtained on resubmission will be capped at 50%.

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