Module EDUM053 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
EDUM053: Primary Teaching and Learning Contextual Studies (School Direct)
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Module Aims
The module will focus on extending the breadth and depth of your understanding of education in several directions, in order that you can develop children’s learning in a number of ways. These include:
- gaining a deeper understanding of new initiatives and policy in primary education;
- nurturing your development as a reflective and autonomous professional practitioner who is able to identify strengths and areas for development in subject knowledge and pedagogy, through evaluating current professional practice in relationship to developments in research and curriculum theory;
- enabling you to reflect critically on children’s learning and development, pedagogy and teachers’ roles and responsibilities in multi-professional contexts; and
- helping you to meet the ‘The Teachers’ Standards’ (2012) at a level acceptable for Qualified Teacher Status, and thus be in a very good position to gain employment as a primary teacher.
Each of these strands is developed throughout the module by practicing teachers and by a University academic.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
|---|---|
| Module-Specific Skills | 1. identify and evaluate educational concepts and issues related to the teaching of primary education; 2. recognise pupils learning needs in the Primary phase and interpret these learning needs in order to plan, teach, assess and evaluate lessons and schemes of work; 3. demonstrate confident academic and pedagogic subject knowledge to teach in Key Stage 1 and 2; 4. demonstrate secure understanding of the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum; 5. engage in critical debate about current educational issues about teaching drawing on evidence from theory, research and practice; |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 6. critically evaluate the relevance of educational theory to practice; 7. synthesise relevant educational literature in support of an argument; 8. use appropriate technologies for data handling and writing in education; 9. present data and findings in a form appropriate in educational studies; 10. use research data in support of an argument in education; |
| Personal and Key Skills | 11. manage your own learning development; 12. learn effectively and be aware of your own learning strategies; 13. express ideas and opinions, with confidence and clarity, to a variety of audiences for a variety of purposes; 14. work productively in different kinds of teams (formal, informal, project based, committee based etc); and 15. think creatively about the main features of a given problem and develop strategies for its resolution. |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The module introduces you to current thinking in primary education and develops your pedagogic and academic subject knowledge in the wider field of primary education.
Key elements of the module include a seminar programme covering:
- Planning, teaching and assessment
- Behaviour management,
- Working with Teaching Assistants
- Transitions
- Creativity
- Art in the Curriculum
- Curriculum design
- Computers in Primary Education
- Safeguarding
- Working with Parents
- Being a Subject Leader and Performance Management
- Outdoor Education
- Writing at a Masters level
On the Primary PGCE School Direct@Exeter programme, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 68 | 232 | 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 | 27 | Practical classes and workshops: Pedagogy & theory workshops, Peer Teaching and Subject Support Groups |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 15 | Seminar Days |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 25 | Specialist week: Fieldwork |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 1 | Tutorials with academic tutor |
| Guided Independent study | 40 | Formative assessment, critiquing papers, reading research articles and writing a literature review |
| Guided Independent Study | 60 | Summative assessment conducting research, analysing data and writing the finished product |
| Guided Independent Study | 30 | Seminar preparation |
| Guided Independent Study | 40 | Seminar tasks |
| Guided Independent Study | 30 | Reading set texts |
| Guided Independent Study | 32 | Wider reading |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
