Postgraduate Module Descriptor

EDUM051: Secondary Spanish Subject Knowledge and Pedagogy

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

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

The module introduces students to current thinking in the teaching of MFL and develops student teachers’ subject content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, knowledge of learners and learning and knowledge of the curriculum in the field of MFL. Key elements of the module include:

Lecture and Seminar Programme: The theoretical basis of MFL education;
Main Subject Language Programme: Seminars and practical classes to address the range of pedagogy and practice in current teaching and learning in students’ first language.
Second Subject Language Programme: Seminars and practical classes to address the range of pedagogy and practice in current teaching and learning in students’ second language.
Peer Teaching Presentations: Short video-taped teaching sessions in which students use the University of Exeter Model of Initial Teacher Education to develop their skills of reflective practice, followed by review and feedback from tutors and peers.
Seminar Days: Five days when students return to the University to share school-based work experiences and develop the links between theoretical and practical aspects of teaching MFL.

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:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
121	179	0

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

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities	72	MFL Lecture and Seminar Programme
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities	18	Main Subject Language Programme
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities	18	Second Subject Language Programme
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities	10	Seminar Days
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities	3	Tutorials with Academic Tutor
Guided Independent Study	179	Independent Study

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.

Form of assessment	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Knowledge & Understanding Initial Audit	1,000 words	1, 2, 3, 4	Verbal feedback (tutorial)
Report for two-week Preliminary School Experience Tasks & Activities	1,500 words	1, 2, 5, 13	Verbal (tutorial) and written feedback
Grammar audits in first and second languages	4 hours	1, 2, 3, 4	Verbal (tutorial) feeds into Action Plans 1 & 2
Assignment preparation: literature review	1,500 words	1, 4, 5, 6, 12, 14	Verbal (tutorial) and written feedback

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.

Coursework	Written exams	Practical exams
100	0	0

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

Form of assessment	% of credit	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Written Assignment	100	6,000 words	1 14	Written feedback
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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.

Original form of assessment	Form of re-assessment	ILOs re-assessed	Timescale for re-assessment
Written Assignment	Resubmission of written assignment (6,000 words)	1-14	See notes below.

Re-assessment notes

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 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%.