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 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).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
- Alexander, R. (ed) (2010) Children, their World, their Education: Final Report and Recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review. London: Routledge.
- Arthur, J. & Cremin, T. (2010) Learning to Teach in the Primary School. London: Routledge.
- Ashley, M. (ed) (1999) Improving Teaching and Learning in the Humanities. London: Fulton
- Bates, J. (2011) Education Policy, Practice and the Professional. London: Continuum
- Cooper, H. (ed) (2011) Professional Studies in Primary Education. London: Sage.
- Cox, S. (2011) New Perspectives in Primary Education: Meaning and Purpose in Learning and Teaching. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
- Cox, S. & Watts, R. (eds.) (2007) Teaching Art and Design 3-11. London: Continuum.
- Fisher, R. (2005) Teaching Children to Learn (2nd edition). London: Nelson Thornes.
- Galton, M. (2007) Learning and Teaching in the Primary Classroom. London: Sage.
- Harlen, W. & Qualter, A. (2004) The Teachingof Sciencein Primary Schools (Fifth Edition). London: David Fulton Publishers.
- Haylock, D. (2010) Mathematics Explained for Primary Teachers, 4th Edition. London: Sage Publications
- Hennessy S. (1995) Music 7-11: Developing Primary Teaching Skills. London: Routledge
- Martin, C. (2008) Primary Languages: Effective Learning and Teaching. Exeter: Learning Matters Ltd.
- Fisher, R., Jones, S., Larkin, S., Myhill, D. (2010) Using Talk to Support Writing. London: Sage.
- Hansen, A. (ed) (2010) Primary Professional Studies. Exeter: Learning Matters.
- Pickup. I. & Price, L. (2007) Teaching Physical Education in the Primary School: a Developmental Approach. London: Continuum
