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Postgraduate Module Descriptor

EDUM050: Secondary Religious Education Subject Knowledge and Pedagogy

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

Module Aims

The principal aims of the module are to:

• enable you to gain a comprehensive understanding of the background theory, issues and practice relating to current teaching of Religious Education in secondary schools;
• support you to meet the Standards required for the award of Qualified Teacher Status and thus be in a very good position to gain employment as a specialist RE teacher; and
• nurture your development as a reflective and autonomous professional practitioner who is able to identify strengths and areas for development in your subject knowledge and pedagogy, through evaluating current professional practice in relationship to developments in research and curriculum theory.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

The module introduces students to current thinking in the teaching of Religious Education and develops students’ pedagogic and academic subject knowledge in the field of Religious Education.  

Key elements of the module include:

• Seminars: the taught course is made up of weekly taught seminars which cover the theoretical basis of religious education across a variety of topics.
• Engaging with Literature: this strand of the course will provide you with opportunities to engage with current debates and research in the field.
• Directed Study Tasks: designed to supplement your subject knowledge and support your professional development.
• Fieldwork: visits to faith communities which will provide you with opportunities to deepen your understanding of key religious traditions.
• Seminar Days: Five days when you will return to the university to share school-based work experiences and develop the links between theoretical and practical aspects of teaching Religious Education.
• Peer Teaching: opportunities to undertake short teaching sessions and use the University of Exeter Model of Initial Teacher Education to develop your classroom practice.

On the Secondary PGCE, you will learn and reflect on the skills and knowledge required by the programme’s credit-bearing and non-credit bearing modules throughout the year. You will need to think about the modules in relation to each other. To facilitate this, the learning and teaching activities and guided independent study described below are scheduled to occur across all three terms both in the context of your university taught course and in the context of your 24 weeks of applied professional experience in schools.

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

RE-ASSESSMENT NOTESIf 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 Exam Board 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 Exam Board with the fail mark. You will then be referred to the Consequences Board who will confirm the conditions for resubmission of the work. Normally the resubmission should be by 1^st 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 Exam Board following any successful resubmission (normally held in December).

In the case of the assignment for the Education and Professional Studies module, there may not be time to mark a resubmitted assignment before the end of the programme; this will mean that the award of PGCE will be delayed until the first Examination Board after July (this is normally held in December).

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

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